Patent ID: 8349614

Claim:
An alkalinity determination process comprising: a. providing a known amount of an acidic fluid at a pH value of approximately 4.5 or less; b. forming a titration system by providing at least one addition of a known amount of a seawater sample to the acidic fluid; c. determining at least one of a pH value and a temperature value for the at least one addition; and d. determining an alkalinity value of the sample comprising calculating a transformation irrespective of crossing the equivalence point of the system, including: i. incorporating a value of the amount of the at least one addition to an inductively quantified value of at least one of a hydrogen ion, a hydrogen sulfate ion, a hydrogen fluoride ion, a bicarbonate ion, a trihydrogen phosphate ion and a hydrogen phosphate ion in the seawater; and ii. at least one of the pH value and the temperature value of the at least one addition.