TOC monitoring allows plants to detect organic contamination from source water, identify treatment deficiencies, find leaks, and troubleshoot other issues. For example, measuring changes in organic content can identify breaches in system processes, and monitoring control points can help troubleshoot and identify sources of pollution. The information and data obtained from TOC monitoring allows for fast decision making to protect valuable equipment and achieve operational goals.

TOC monitoring plays a crucial role in optimizing water treatment processes in the food and beverage industry. It helps ensure compliance with regulations, minimize costs, and maximize profit. By monitoring and controlling the organic load in waste streams, manufacturers can achieve efficient water management and avoid the negative consequences of improper treatment. TOC analysis provides real-time data that enables quick adjustments and helps maintain water quality throughout the manufacturing process.

Water quality monitoring is crucial in pharmaceutical production. Whether used as raw material or for formulation, processing, reagents, intermediates, or cleaning, water plays a fundamental role in GMP processes and must be monitored accordingly. Two critical quality attributes that require monitoring according to the US Pharmacopeia in USP Water for Pharmaceutical Purposes are TOC and conductivity. These measurements are used to demonstrate compliance to regulations and control processes.

Regulation changes for MPP facilities are rapidly approaching and these facilities need to ensure their wastewater treatment processes are removing nitrogen to meet the proposed EPA limits. The Sievers TOC-R3 can continuously monitor nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment to ensure treatment performance in real time. This allows operators to immediately take action if the treatment train is not removing nitrogen to the efficiency it needs to.

In the wastewater treatment process, secondary biological treatment is used to remove dissolved organic matter using microorganisms. A common practice for determining the performance of this treatment is the Food to Microorganism ratio (F:M). To determine the food (F) portion of the ratio, total organic carbon (TOC) analysis can provide more accurate and reliable data than other methods to reduce risk of regulatory non-compliance and help optimize secondary biological treatment.