Condition monitoring specialist firm, WearCheck, has brought their sister company, Set Point Water Laboratories into the fold, including a brand new division to WearCheck’s scientific testing construction.
The water evaluation firm is now integrated fully into WearCheck, and types one more area of expertise together with WearCheck’s different companies, which embrace scientific used oil evaluation, asset reliability care, transformer oil testing and lubricant-enabled reliability services.
Set Point Water Laboratories is ISO 17025:2017-accredited, and tests water from any supply – starting from drinking water to manufacturing facility effluent, and every little thing in between – to find out the presence and levels of potentially dangerous substances.
Set Point Water Laboratories was established in Johannesburg in 1998 as a minerals laboratory, then generally known as Set Point Laboratories. ตัววัดแรงดันน้ำมัน launched water testing in 2013 and expanded with the launch of a Cape Town water laboratory in 2019, achieving accreditation of the Cape Town Laboratory in 2020, and thereafter focusing only on water analysis.
Thelma Horsfield, general supervisor of Set Point Water Labs, outlines their providers, ‘Our laboratory technicians choose the relevant exams for the water sample relying on the needs of the shopper. They identify what’s mistaken with the water and advise prospects on attainable penalties of using / discarding such water.
‘Water analysis is conducted utilizing various accredited strategies similar to; photometric, electrometric, colorimetric, gravimetric, ICP-OES, ICP MS and enzyme substrates. These techniques obtain the very best leads to chemical and microbial evaluation of effluent/wastewater, consuming water, processed water, surface water and groundwater.
Industrial operations
‘In the case of industrial operations needing to get rid of wastewater 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 earlier than disposal, to prevent possible fines and even prosecution. Our water technicians determine the exact ranges of contaminants and advise on acceptable levels for protected discarding.
‘Many of our mining customers function boreholes, using the water within the mining course of. We frequently monitor the water high quality from the boreholes to check whether or not contaminants from the mining course of have leached into the water provide.
‘As an instance – cyanide is commonly used in gold mining, the presence of this toxin must be continually monitored. Uranium is often found within the ore with gold, and as uranium is radioactive, it is necessary 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 living near these come to us to test the quality of their ingesting water. เครื่องมือที่ใช้วัดความดันโลหิต -6, a carcinogenic component, is a by-product from chrome mines, so it could be very important know if humans shall be ingesting water with high levels of this.
‘Health is a main cause for many of our prospects for ingesting water security, both personal and within the restaurant commerce for making juices and coffees – and they want to know the hardness of their municipal water because it impacts their espresso machines.
‘In addition to the above, scope water can be used for dialysis. It is important to note the sufferers on dialysis have little to no kidney perform. Kidneys assist compensate for the upper intake of gear obtained from meals and drinks that might otherwise construct up in the physique. Dialyzing with pure water prevents the publicity of substances/toxins that cannot be eradicated from the body. We are currently performing some water quality checks for a renal unit to ensure suitability for dialysis
‘Irrigation water quality is a important side of greenhouse crop manufacturing. Water with high alkalinity can affect vitamins uptake by the crops and trigger nutrient deficiency which compromises plant well being.
‘Borehole water testing is a well-liked item with clients who wish to know whether or not the water is secure to make use of on their garden, to fill the pool, to drink and use in the family. In Cape Town, many boreholes have high salt content material, and, after testing the water, some prospects should dilute it with municipal water or put processes in place to take away most of the salts.
‘Through WearCheck, our water services present analytical companies via an intensive community of operations in South Africa and internationally
‘And’, adds Horsfield, ‘as a result of the worldwide Covid pandemic, we added alcohol content testing to our companies in addition to a newly introduced logistics answer to allow straightforward motion of water and sanitizer samples.’
Previously, WearCheck was part of the bigger Set Point group till the corporate was purchased by present homeowners Synerlytic in 2019, along with SetPoint Water Laboratories.
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