Condition monitoring specialist company, WearCheck, has brought their sister firm, Set Point Water Laboratories into the fold, adding a new division to WearCheck’s scientific testing structure.
The water analysis firm is now integrated fully into WearCheck, and varieties one more space of expertise together with WearCheck’s other providers, which embody scientific used oil analysis, asset reliability care, transformer oil testing and lubricant-enabled reliability services.
ตัววัดแรงดัน is ISO 17025:2017-accredited, and checks water from any supply – starting from drinking water to manufacturing unit effluent, and every little thing in between – to discover out the presence and ranges of probably harmful substances.
Set Point Water Laboratories was established in Johannesburg in 1998 as a minerals laboratory, then often known as Set Point Laboratories. The company introduced water testing in 2013 and expanded with the launch of a Cape Town water laboratory in 2019, reaching accreditation of the Cape Town Laboratory in 2020, and thereafter focusing only on water evaluation.
Thelma Horsfield, basic supervisor of Set Point Water Labs, outlines their providers, ‘Our laboratory technicians select the related tests for the water pattern depending on the wants of the client. They establish what is wrong with the water and advise clients on attainable penalties of utilizing / discarding such water.
‘Water analysis is carried out utilizing various accredited methods corresponding to; photometric, electrometric, colorimetric, gravimetric, ICP-OES, ICP MS and enzyme substrates. These strategies obtain the very best leads to chemical and microbial analysis of effluent/wastewater, ingesting water, processed water, surface water and groundwater.
Industrial operations
‘In the case of business operations needing to dispose of wastewater right into a river system, the ocean and even merely down the drain, there are strict by-laws that must be adhered to, outlining the “acceptable” levels of contaminants before disposal, to stop possible fines or even prosecution. Our water technicians decide the precise levels of contaminants and advise on acceptable ranges for protected discarding.
‘Many of our mining customers function boreholes, using the water within the mining course of. We frequently monitor the water quality from the boreholes to check whether contaminants from the mining course of have leached into the water provide.
‘As an example – cyanide is commonly used in gold mining, the presence of this toxin must be continuously monitored. Uranium is usually discovered within the ore with gold, and as uranium is radioactive, it is essential to monitor the levels and verify whether or not it has leached into the water provide. This is even a problem on disused mines and mine dumps – lots of our prospects dwelling near these come to us to test the quality of their consuming water. Chromium-6, a carcinogenic factor, is a by-product from chrome mines, so it may be very important know if humans will be ingesting water with excessive levels of this.
‘Health is a primary purpose for lots of of our clients for ingesting water security, each private and within the restaurant trade for making juices and coffees – they usually wish to know the hardness of their municipal water as it impacts their coffee machines.
‘In addition to the above, scope water can be used for dialysis. It is necessary to note the patients on dialysis have little to no kidney perform. Kidneys help compensate for the upper consumption of drugs obtained from meals and drinks that may otherwise build up in the physique. Dialyzing with pure water prevents the exposure of substances/toxins that can’t be eliminated from the body. We are at present doing a little water high quality checks for a renal unit to make sure suitability for dialysis
‘Irrigation water quality is a important side of greenhouse crop production. Water with high alkalinity can affect nutrients uptake by the plants and trigger nutrient deficiency which compromises plant health.
‘Borehole water testing is a popular item with customers who need to know whether or not the water is safe to use on their backyard, to fill the pool, to drink and use in the household. In Cape Town, many boreholes have excessive salt content, and, after testing the water, some clients should dilute it with municipal water or put processes in place to take away most of the salts.
‘Through WearCheck, our water amenities present analytical companies by way of an extensive community of operations in South Africa and internationally
‘And’, provides Horsfield, ‘as a results of the global Covid pandemic, we added alcohol content testing to our services in addition to a newly launched logistics answer to allow simple movement of water and sanitizer samples.’
Previously, WearCheck was part of the bigger Set Point group until the corporate was bought by present owners Synerlytic in 2019, along with SetPoint Water Laboratories.
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