The ability of fluorescent 1,8-napthalimide-tagged polyacrylate PAA-F1 to serve as an "on line" indicator of polymeric scale inhibitor concentration has been tested in dynamic bench scale tests operating with EMEC facility, and in an industrial-scale in situ experiment run at a "Rosinka 10/20" cooling tower that provides the circulating water cooling of heat exchangers at rectification columns of ECOS-1 Co. site in Staraya Kupavna city, Russia. It has been demonstrated that the static beaker tests and the dynamic bench-and industrialscale experiments may reveal rather different results. The latter exhibited a much higher sensitivity to the background iron cation concentration. It has been found that PAA-F1 may lose up to 17% of fluorescence intensity, while the losses of indifferent tracer, tetrasodium salt of 1,3,6,8-pyrenetetrasulfonic acid (PTSA) can exceed 80%. The Benсh-scale dynamic experiments on the fluorescence intensity of a fluorescent-tagged scale inhibitor at elevated concentrations of the background cations are recommended as an inevitable step for a proper estimation of fluorescent tracer validity for in situ applications. An industrial-scale 30-day experiment has demonstrated a good agreement of the fluorescent data with the conventional methods of cooling water control, and the feasibility of 1,8-naphthalimide tagged polyacrylate PAA-F1 application for in situ polymer concentration monitoring "on line".