3 Preventive Measures
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3 Preventive Measures

 ▸ Regular maintenance, inspection and calibration to assure the above conditions do not exist should be performed. Longer-range preventive actions, such as preventing rouge formation, usually involve conditions upstream of the OCM and are addressed in the relevant sections.

▸ OCMs should be flushed with clean water after use and their measuring cell cleaned with a bottle brush or where manual/automatic cleaning mechanisms are provided they should be operated prior to shutting down the equipment.

Weekly documented maintenance of OCMs has demonstrated that an OCM can successfully operate for more than 20 years.


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