BLUVISION®
Automated Discrete Analyzer for High-Precision Colorimetric Water Analysis
The BLUVISION® Discrete Analyzer is specially designed for environmental laboratories handling diverse sample types and complex matrices. This fully automated system ensures accurate, high-throughput colorimetric analysis of nutrients and other key water quality parameters, making it an essential tool for drinking water, wastewater, and environmental monitoring.
Advanced Discrete Analysis for Reliable Nutrient Testing in Water
The BLUVISION® Discrete Analyzer offers fully automated colorimetric analysis for a wide range of water quality parameters, including ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, ortho-phosphate, sulfate, chloride, and more. Designed for high precision and low detection limits, it ensures accurate results while handling large sample volumes efficiently.
Equipped with an automatic re-analysis function, the BLUVISION® can seamlessly reprocess samples that fall under or over the detection range, ensuring reliable data without manual intervention.
Additionally, its separate waste collection system ensures safe and environmentally responsible disposal of hazardous chemicals.
With an intuitive user interface and minimal maintenance requirements, this discrete analyzer is ideal for laboratories seeking efficiency and accuracy. The Skalar analysis methods comply with ISO 15923-1, CMA/2/I/C.8, EPA, and other international standards, making it a trusted solution for drinking water, wastewater, and environmental monitoring laboratories.
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Hardware
The BLUVISION® Discrete Analyzer delivers fully automated, walk-away operation, minimizing manual intervention and increasing laboratory efficiency. Its advanced system handles every step of the colorimetric analysis process, including:
-> Automatic sample and reagent pipetting into cuvettes
-> Precision mixing and controlled heating for optimal reaction conditions
-> Integrated blank correction for accurate measurements
-> High-resolution photometric detection ensuring reliable results
Feature Highlights:
The BLUVISION® Discrete Analyzer is designed for high-throughput water analysis, offering 100 sample positions across 5 racks, each holding 20 samples. This flexible setup allows sample volumes ranging from 3.5 to 10 ml, ensuring versatility for various applications.
For reagents, stock standards, and quality controls (QC’s), the analyzer provides:
✅ 24 reagent positions (50 ml capacity)
✅ 8 reagent positions (10 ml capacity)
To maintain sample and reagent integrity, the racks can be actively cooled throughout the analysis run, ensuring stable conditions and reliable results.
The BLUVISION® Discrete Analyzer is designed for high-throughput, fully automated water analysis, featuring a 160-position cuvette tray with continuous sample loading for maximum efficiency.
✅ Autoloader System – Automatically loads cuvette blocks, allowing up to 640 consecutive tests without operator intervention
✅ 7-Hour Walk-Away Time – Enables unattended operation, maximizing lab productivity
✅ Temperature-Controlled Cuvette Tray – Ensures stable reaction conditions for highly precise colorimetric analysis
✅ Continuous Sample Loading – New samples can be added during a run, eliminating downtime
With long walk-away times and seamless automation, the BLUVISION® is ideal for environmental, wastewater, and drinking water laboratories requiring efficient, high-precision nutrient analysis.
The instrument uses one needle for dispensing sample and reagent into the cuvettes. The needle can pre-heat the samples and reagents before dispensing. A long-life and high-precision pump is used for sample and reagent pipetting.
The cuvette blocks are disposable, which eliminates any carryover between tests. Used cuvette blocks are automatically stored in a waste bin for safe removal after analysis. The BLUVISION® has a separate waste container for toxic reagents, selectable per method.
Nitrogen over-pressure/exhaust system to maintain stability for low ammonia methods.
The detector of the BLUVISION® analyzer is equipped with a halogen light-source and a filter wheel containing 8 filters with different wavelengths. The BLUVISION® is therefore capable of running more than 8 different parameters in one run without any operator intervention. The filters can be easily changed for different parameters.
The cuvette has an optical path-length of 15 mm which allows accurate low ppb level detection. The cuvette blocks are disposable, which eliminates any carry-over between tests.
Software
The BLUVISION® discrete analyzer is fully controlled via a touch screen display and an user-friendly & multi-tasking software package, DiscreteAccess.
Touch screen
The integrated touch screen display provides all the relevant instrument information, such as analyzer status, real-time monitoring of reagent levels and remaining test capacity as well as temperatures of the cuvette and sample trays. In addition also a range of tasks can be excuted from this display for example, loading cuvette blocks, changing filters etc.
- Real time monitoring of reagent levels and remaining test capacity
- Temperature settings of the cuvette and sample trays.
- Changing filters
- Addition of reagents, samples & cuvette blocks
DiscreteAccess
For running the analysis, data collection and calculation the analyzer uses a comprehensive software package, DiscreteAccess, which complies with all current laboratory requirements. An easy-to-use user interface allows the operator to start up the analyzer within seconds. Each analysis run can be set-up batch-wise or random access.
- Easy sample data entry or upload from LIMS
- Pre-defined application files for Nitrite, Nitrate, Alkalinity etc.
- Customized application files can be integrated
- Automatic preparation of calibration standards
- Sample sequence optimisation
- Automatic pre- and post-dilutions
- Automatic smart range selection
- User-definable Reports
- Results export to txt, excel file or LIMS
- CLP and 21 CFR part 11 compliant
The BLUVISION® discrete analyzer
The discrete analyzer is ideal for environmental and industrial laboratories analyzing a wide variety of sample types and matrices. This system integrates years of experience in the field of spectrophotometric analysis and robot automation in one design. Advantages are the low ppb level detection limits, high accuracy and the large sample capacity.
Typical applications
Typical application areas for the BLUVISION® are for example drinking water, wastewater, ground water and surface water. Our applications conform to regulatory bodies such as ISO, EPA, Standard Methods for Water and Wastewater.
Parameters include:
- Alkalinity
- Aluminum
- Ammonia
- Calcium
- Chloride
- Chromium VI
- Cyanide
- Iron
- Magnesium
- Nitrate+Nitrite
- Nitrite
- Ortho Phosphate
- Phenols
- Silicate
- Sulfate
- Total Hardness
Per industry
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