Planktonic ATP (pATP)

How and Where is this Test Kit Used?
	Used as a supplement to the QG21W test kit, the pATP™ procedure is intended for wastewater treatment applications to detect conditions that lead to deflocculation or other mechanisms responsible for biomass carryover in gravity clarification processes. Use pATP on biomass samples such as:
	Aerobic Lagoons Anaerobic Reactors	Activated Sludge Reactors Sequencing Batch Reactors

Industries

This kit can also be used in the following applications and industries:

How Does the Test Kit Work?

The pATP test protocol involves comparing the Total ATP of a well-mixed sample to that of the supernatant liquid of a settled sample. When used concurrently with the QG21W kit, the user can observe when deflocculation begins to occur.

What do the Results Mean?

Monitoring pATP over time will give the user a mechanism to definitively determine total biomass settlability, and can offer early warning of impending settling problems.

This is possible because of the greatly improved sensitivity of ATP measurements over physical characteristic measurements for detecting small changes in biomass settling properties.

Using pATP, along with tATP™ obtained using QG21W, the total biomass settlability of a sample can be determined within minutes.

Test Kit Contents

Included in pATP Kits	Storage Temp.	Shelf Life
Luminase Luciferase Enzyme Reagent	4°C	3 mo.
UltraCheck 1 1 ng/mL ATP Standard	20°C	6 mo.
UltraLyse 30 Extraction Reagent	20°C	12 mo.
UltraLute Dilution Buffer	20°C	12 mo.
17x100mm Culture Tubes	—	—
100-1000µL Pipette Tips	—	—
1-5mL Pipette Tips	—	—
12x 55mm Culture Tubes	—	—