Low-Cost Solution for Tracking Oil Plumes in Water
Add a YSI sonde and hydrocarbon sensor to a YSI portable harbor buoy to create a Hydrocarbon Buoy System that easily collects oil-in-water data. Expand your water quality monitoring to include hydrocarbons, oil, refined fuels, or CDOM.
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YSI EMM68 Harbor Buoy |
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YSI 6600 V2-4 sonde |
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YSI Sonde with Oil Sensor |
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Advantages of YSI Oil in Water Sensor Adapter
- Field Upgradable: Lowest-cost solution to adding oil-monitoring capability to current monitoring locations
- No new wiring or external datalogger required
- Engineering units and Turner raw analog voltage are recorded and displayed
- CDOM Rejection: Filtering is built into the C7 Refined Fuels sensor
- Operate two C7 sensors simultaneously in YSI 6600 sonde
- Compatible with YSI 6600, 6920, 6820, 600OMS sondes and EMM68 harbor buoy
Read more about how YSI instruments have been used to monitor the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico:
- SeaKeeper with Crude Oil Sensor Responds to Gulf Oil Spill
- YSI Responds to Oil Spill Disaster with 5 Monitoring Systems You Can Use
This product is suited for long-term monitoring of oil-impacted regions, harbor monitoring, or for vertical profiles through the water column. It can also be deployed in profiling or continuous monitoring applications such as polluted waters, shipping channels, and mines.
YSI Hydrocarbon Buoy System Components:
- YSI 6600 V2 water quality sonde
Comprehensive multiparameter water quality instrument that provides reliable data even in the toughest conditions - Turner Cyclops-7 Submersible Sensor
Choose a crude oil, refined fuels, or CDOM sensor - Turner Sensor Adapter
Plug the TSA into an optical port on the YSI sonde to quickly add hydrocarbons, oil in water, and CDOM to basic water quality parameters - YSI Portable Harbor Buoy
The EMM68 buoy is a lightweight, quickly deployable water quality monitoring platform with remote telemetry
Hydrocarbon monitoring in water is of growing importance near oil platforms, marinas, and spill-affected waters. The stand-alone Turner sensors have been used extensively for oil monitoring.
- The crude oil sensor is useful for detecting oil throughout the water column in offshore monitoring.
- The refined fuels sensor is recommended closer to shore, where colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) concentrations can be high and interfere with crude oil readings.
The sensor adapter also adds hydrocarbon sensing capability to the YSI EcoMapper AUV.