This standard is Part 3 of a three part series of standards defining the technical requirements for water monitoring equipment. This standard defines the performance requirements and conformity test procedures for portable analysers. Portable analysers are equipment that can be transported from one monitoring point to another and capable of making continuous real-time measurements in water of chemicals or physical parameters.
Portable analysers are used extensively in the industrial process and water industries, and by regulators for compliance and surveillance monitoring and process control purposes. Thje standard supports the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive, and the Water Framework Directive.
Performance requirements and conformity test procedures cover portable analysers that can measure the following determinands in water: Ammonia; chlorophyll a, COD; conductivity; dissolved oxygen; free cyanide; nitrate; nitrite; orthophosphate; pH; temperature; total arsenic; total cadmium; total chlorine; total copper; total lead; total mercury; total nickel; turbidity
Legislation related to this standard
Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (substitutes Directive Reference 01/991 - Common Position on WFD)
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