BioTector – No other solution compares
The following table gives a comparison between the BioTector solution and our next nearest competitors:
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Feature
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Competitors
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BioTector
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1
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Uptime and Reliability
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Have a reputation for poor reliability and low availability – leading to a lack of confidence in measured results.
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Typically 99.7% Uptime and an accuracy of +/-3%.
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2
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Maintenance
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Requires constant maintenance – some plants employ 1 engineer to service every 6 machines, while others have quoted $50,000 per annum as the cost of maintenance per analyzer.
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Only requires servicing twice per year. Standard 6 and 12 month service kits are available.
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3
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Handling grease, fats, oils, etc.
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Conventional technologies, i.e. UV Persulphate Oxidation and Thermal Oxidation cannot handle these materials.
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No difficulty with such materials.
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4
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Processing particulate samples
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Cannot process particulate in samples – must apply filtering techniques, often down to 50 microns.
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Can measure particulates of up to 2mm and does not rely on filtering.
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5
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Can measure particulates of up to 2mm and does not rely on filtering.
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Act as accumulators – building up salts, dirt, etc. in reaction chambers, thus requiring regular maintenance – often with expensive reactor rebuilds and significant downtime.
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Totally self-cleaning – actually cleans all internal components during each cycle.
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6
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Operating in the presence of chlorides, calcium, etc.
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UV Persulphate analyzers cannot operate with salts above 0.05%.
Salts clog the reactor in Thermal analyzers. |
Can measure with chlorides (salts) of up to 30% and calcium (sludge) up to 12%.
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7
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Analyzing large samples
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Can only oxidize and measure micro liters of sample, which require delicate sample selection systems, syringes, dilution, etc.
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Can oxidize very large samples (up to 10ml) – up to 1000 times larger than competitors.
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8
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Proneness to drift
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UV Persulphate analyzers drift due to scaling of the UV light source.
Thermal analyzers drift due to build up of dirt, salts, etc in the reactor. Both require calibration every 2-3 days |
Designed so that there is no drift and therefore rarely requires calibration – every six months or so is ample.
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As you can see from the above, there really is no comparison.
