TREATMENT OF INDUSTRIAL WATER SYSTEMS

1 . A method for controlling treatment of an industrial water system, the method comprising the following steps:

providing an apparatus for controlling delivery of at least one treatment chemical, the apparatus comprising at least one sensor and an electronic input/output device carrying out a protocol;

measuring a parameter of the industrial water system using the at least one sensor;

relaying the measured parameter to the electronic device;

adjusting the protocol based on the measured parameter;

delivering a concentrated treatment chemical into a stream of the industrial water system according to the adjusted protocol, the concentrated treatment chemical comprising an active ingredient, the active ingredient traced as necessary, the active ingredient having a concentration;

repeating the measuring, the adjusting, and the delivering; and

optionally repeating the steps for n-number of parameters, n-number of active ingredients, and/or n-number of concentrated treatment chemicals.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the industrial water system is selected from the group consisting of: a cooling tower water system; a petroleum well, a downhole formation, a geothermal well, and any other oil field application; a boiler system; a hot water system;

mineral process waters comprising mineral washing, flotation and benefaction; a papermaking process; a black liquor evaporator; a gas scrubber; an air washer; a continuous casting process; an air conditioning system; a refrigeration system; a pasteurization process; a water reclamation system; a water purification system; a membrane filtration water system; a food processing stream; and a wastewater treatment system.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one sensor is selected from the group consisting of: a fluorometric sensor; a spectrofluorometric sensor; an optical absorption spectroscopic sensor; an optical Raman spectroscopic sensor; a corrosion sensor; a conductivity sensor; a pH sensor; a temperature sensor; a weight sensor; a flow sensor; a load cell; a level detector; a turbidity sensor; an electrical sensor; an electrochemical sensor; an acoustic sensor; multiples thereof; combinations thereof; and multiples and combinations thereof.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the parameter is selected from the group consisting of: a corrosion rate; a scaling rate; a deposition rate; a heat transfer rate; a cooling tower efficiency; a chemical concentration; a cycle of concentration; a suspended solids measurement; a dissolved solids measurement; a microbiological activity rate; a chemical activity rate; a process performance parameter; a product performance parameter; multiples thereof; combinations thereof; and multiples and combinations thereof.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises automatically diluting the concentrated treatment chemical prior to the delivering.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the automatically diluting occurs in-stream en route to the delivering.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the concentrated treatment chemical is delivered as a solid.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the concentrated treatment chemical is delivered as a liquid.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the concentrated treatment chemical comprises at least two active ingredients.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the concentrated treatment chemical is further comprised of a dye, the active ingredient traced with the dye.

11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the active ingredient is a polymer tagged with a fluorescent moiety.

12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the active ingredient is inherently fluorescent.

13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the apparatus further comprises a modular delivery system.

14 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the protocol comprises an algorithm based on calculations selected from the group consisting of: a first principle; an empirical observation; multiples thereof combinations thereof and multiples and combinations thereof.