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Our laboratory analytical instrumentation capabilities allow total automation for processing water and deposit analyses. Utilizing precisely controlled analytical procedures, our laboratory produces results that consistently fall within the tightest accuracy and precision ranges. This also provides our customers with the fastest sample analysis turnaround in the water treatment industry.
By expanding our inventory of portable testing equipment, we have also succeeded in taking superior analytical technology directly into the field. As a result, our clients experience a more accurate and efficient means of system analysis.
Hudson, Inc. maintains a functional customer service laboratory equipped with modern, high technology equipment to support the specialized needs of customers and field personnel. The laboratory is located at our Ashland, Virginia facility. As Hudson has grown, the laboratory has continued to expand and modernize its facilities to support this growth. |
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Hudson encourages customers and prospective customers to visit these laboratory facilities which include:
 Classical wet chemistry methods for water and wastewater analyses, as well as deposit composition. These methods include and utilize balances, titrations, muffle furnace, gravimetric analyses, and all conventional qualitative and quantitative inorganic analytical techniques.
Visible and ultraviolet spetrophotometry.
FTIR Infrared spectrophotometry using a computerized data bank for determining the compositon of organic substances in waters and deposits.
Gas Chromatography system for identification and separation of volatile organic substances such as amines, certain biocids, etc.
Conventional ion exchange resin analyses, including salt-splitting capacity, total capacity tests, microscopic examinations, identification of resin foulants and contaminants, resin cleanup recommendations, microphotography, etc.
Routine fuel oil analytical capabilities such as centrifugal BS&W analysis, bomb calorimeter, ICP analysis of metals, etc.
Multiple chromatography capabilities, including an HPLC chromatograph containing multiple separation columns employing computer-assisted identification techniques. Can be employed as ion chromatograph, gel permeation chromatograph, and normal or reversed phase chromatograph.
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