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Maximizing the lifespan of your pH sensors reduces costs, inventory, and waste. This brief guide looks at how you can make a significant difference to pH sensor lifetime.
Ensure Sensors Will Tolerate the Process
Consider factors like pH, chemistry, temperature, and pressure when choosing a pH sensor. The wrong sensor may fail in days or weeks, causing frequent replacements and high costs, while the right one can reliably last a year or more.
Switch to Predictive Maintenance
pH sensors are often replaced preemptively to avoid downtime, even if they could last longer. Maintenance schedules indicate planned work, but you probably lack real-time insights at measurement points. Worse, unexpected sensor failures can go unnoticed for hours or days. Predictive maintenance solves these issues.
Automate pH Sensor Cleaning and Calibration
Keeping sensors clean is arguably the most crucial part of process analytics maintenance, as solids and compounds in many processes can affect sensor accuracy and pH sensor lifetime. Automating the process not only keeps sensors clean, it also frees up maintenance teams for other tasks.
