Silica Measurements in Power Plants

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Protect your plant AND optimise plant efficiency

Close monitoring of Silica concentrations helps ensure power plant efficiency and reduce downtime by avoiding costly plant shutdowns and repairs.


Why measure silica?
A deposit of 0.1mm can reduce thermal transfer by 5%.
If there is even a tracelevel of silica in the water when it is heated to steam it can deposit itself on the blades of a turbine in a very short period of time. Silica deposits affect how a turbine spins and causes:

  • Reduced capacity and efficiency of the turbine
  • Increased maintenance costs
  • Unscheduled plant shutdown for repair or exchange of blades


Make sure you are informed about the latest technology on silica monitoring – send the request form now!


The HACH 5500 sc silica analyser reduces maintenance time and user interaction due to a number of customer-driven improvements:

  • 90 days of continuous runtime with only 2 litres of each reagen
  • Save time on maintenance with the industries only pump-less reagent delivery system
  • Avoid downtime with predictive diagnostic tools, warning LEDs and high-visibility notification screen
  • Clean, fast and easy reagent change with re-designed bottles and ready-to-use reagents
  • Easy verification with Hach lab test with Grab Sample In and Out features


Hach reagents provide a number of advantages:

  • Formulated for optimal accuracy – factory pre-mixed with extensive quality control 
  • Instantly ready-to-use
  • Designed with user friendly features like color-coded caps and sealed bottles allowing quick and clean reagent replacement

Do you value flexibility over the convenience and accuracy of pre-mixed reagents? Then you need the POLYMETRON 9610 silica analyser.



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Hach expertise covers:

  • Water intake
  • Demineralisation
  • Feed/make-up water
  • Boiler feed water
  • Steam/condensate
  • Condensate polishing
  • Cooling water
  • Reactor coolant (nuclear)
  • Stator coolant
  • Nuclear waste/off-gas
  • Wastewater treatment