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    Default Big bubble forming in doser to reagent tube??

    As seen in attached pictures, there is a bubble forming in the tube connected to the reagent bottle, on the doser side. This bubble forms over a period of about 15 hours. It seems that the reagent is slowly flowing back into the reagent bottle.
    The bubble then gets sucked into the KHD when the next measurement is made, (as can be seen in second picture) obviously resulting in wrong value.
    The tube between the doser connector and the reagent bottle is 7cm long.

    As it stands, I have to prime the reagent doser everyday in order to get correct measurements.

    Also attached picture of my setup. Anything wrong there?

    AirBubble_from_doser.jpg
    AirBubble_to_KHD.jpg
    GHLSetup.jpg

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    I have exactly the same problem

    I thought at first it may be sucking air from the joint where the airline meets the doser, but the seals are very good.

    If your theory is correct I might try lifting the reagent bottle higher. I have the same layout as you with the reagent directly below.

    Very annoying.

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    Default Now also micro bubbles.

    So after having to prime the tubes again to get the BIG air bubble out, taking a measurement that was off by 0.1dKH compared to my Hanna tester , 16 hours later I check on the reagent tubes and this is what I see:

    MicroBubbles.jpg


    The BIG bubble is there again and now there are micro bubbles too.

    edit 12/02
    Anyone else have this issue?
    Is it a problem with the reagent forming micro bubbles?
    Is air getting in through the doser 2.1?

    No solution from support team?

    The KH Director is useless to me if I have to prime tubes everyday in order to get a correct measurement. Quicker to test with Hanna
    Last edited by Fishbones; 13.02.2018 at 11:29.

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    Ive been having exactly the same issue, posted in R2R about it, wonder where there coming from. I even changed reagent bottle in case first one was contaminated and somehow causing bubbles to form in the liquid. I might try a check valve and see if that helps.

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    The support team have gone very quiet about this issue .

    It is affecting a lot of users.

    It looks to me that the reagent is aerated , when it passes through the doser pump the micro bubbles burst and make a large bubble that slowly moves up the tube towards the KHD.

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    Hi

    we are already working on this issue, we didn't want to post before we had final results, assumptions don't help anyone.


    It seems that there are micro bubbles in the reagent, our manufacturer told us that this can happen after temperature swings of the reagent.
    This is very likely in the winter, between storage, transport and your home we have temperature differences of 20°C or more.


    These are the planned actions:

    1. reagent manufacturer tries to get rid of most of the micro bubbles with heating and shaking the warm liquid before shipping, this will reduce the air about 80%

    2. we add a software feature "double-check" (can be disabled): if the KHD measures a suspicious value it does a second measurement, it is very unlikely that a bubble affects 2 measurements in a row


    What can you do now?

    1. keep the reagent tubes as short and as straight as possible

    2. get rid of the micro bubbles: get the liquid a bit warmer than room temp., e.g. get temp. about 30°C on a heater, after that loose the air bubbles by stomping
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    Thanks Matthias

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    Thank you. I'll get stomping ASAP.

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    I warmed up the reagent and stomped the bottle but I still get a big bubble forming in the tube. Don´t see as many micro bubbles in the tube now but the big bubble formed over a period of about 15 hours is between 6 and 10mm.
    Is it possible that air gets in through the hose connector causing the the reagent to flow back into the bottle?

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    I still have this issue too after doing the same process as you describe. The bubble is quite large about 10mm after such a short time.

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