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Improving Wastewater Treatment to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions with Patrick Kiely, CEO of Sentry

Hardware to Save a Planet

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How to Measure Water Quality With a Sensor

In wastewater, bio film grows on everything. And if you can imagine your bathtub that's full of all of your food that you've just been mixing up all morning,. If you put a nice sensor that has a glass prism on that, it gets clogged and covered the bio film growing over it very fast. So we tend to put our sensors in the dirtiest parts of the wastewater like just as it's entering the treatment plant. Get a digital profile of how much food is in the way so this is how much food or bacteria are reading. The bacteria tell us in real time how much food they're eating, how healthy they are., and we use that to measure the quality

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