Patent ID: 11926457
Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER CONDUCTA GMBH+CO. KG
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 7:
8. A waste-water sampling method for processing a liquid sample, wherein the sampling method includes at least the steps of:
providing a liquid-source and a sampling system, wherein the sampling system includes:
a retrieving module fluidically connected to the liquid-source and configured to retrieve a liquid sample from the liquid-source; a filling module configured to fill the retrieved liquid sample into a sampling container, wherein the sampling container is a single-use sampling container made of a bio-degradable material; a storing module adapted to store the sampling container filled with the liquid sample; and a disposal module adapted to discard the liquid sample;
retrieving the liquid sample from the liquid-source by the retrieving module;
filling the sampling container with the retrieved liquid sample by the filling module,
wherein the sampling container is for storing a liquid sample, wherein the sampling container is a single use sampling container made from a biodegradable material;
storing the sampling container filled with the liquid sample in the storing module; and
choosing one desired sampling container out of the at least first and second sampling containers in the storing module by the transporter,
presenting the chosen one desired sampling container to a user by the transporter, discarding the liquid sample by the disposal module; and
wherein the step of discarding the liquid sample includes opening the sample container by the disposal module in a destructive way such that the liquid sample is evacuated from the sampling container,
wherein the step of discarding the liquid sample includes emptying the liquid sample into the liquid drainage;
wherein the transporter transports the sampling container filled or not filled with a liquid sample between at least the retrieving module, the filling module, the storing module and the disposal module;
wherein the step of discarding the liquid sample comprises insertion of the liquid sample upstream to the sampling system into the liquid source.