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 construction.
The water evaluation company is now integrated absolutely into WearCheck, and forms yet one more area of expertise together with WearCheck’s different services, which embody scientific used oil analysis, asset reliability care, transformer oil testing and lubricant-enabled reliability providers.
Set Point Water Laboratories is ISO 17025:2017-accredited, and checks water from any source – ranging from drinking water to manufacturing unit effluent, and every little thing in between – to discover out the presence and ranges of doubtless dangerous 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, achieving accreditation of the Cape Town Laboratory in 2020, and thereafter focusing solely on water evaluation.
Thelma Horsfield, basic supervisor of Set Point Water Labs, outlines their services, ‘Our laboratory technicians select the relevant checks for the water pattern relying on the wants of the customer. They identify what’s mistaken with the water and advise customers on possible penalties of using / discarding such water.
‘Water evaluation is performed utilizing varied accredited techniques similar to; photometric, electrometric, colorimetric, gravimetric, ICP-OES, ICP MS and enzyme substrates. These techniques obtain the absolute best ends in chemical and microbial evaluation of effluent/wastewater, ingesting water, processed water, floor water and groundwater.
Industrial operations
‘In the case of commercial operations needing to eliminate wastewater into a river system, the sea or even simply down the drain, there are strict by-laws that must be adhered to, outlining the “acceptable” levels of contaminants earlier than disposal, to prevent potential fines and even prosecution. Our water technicians determine the exact levels of contaminants and advise on acceptable levels for safe discarding.
‘Many of our mining prospects operate boreholes, using the water in the mining process. We frequently monitor the water high quality from the boreholes to check whether contaminants from the mining course of have leached into the water provide.
‘As ตัววัดแรงดัน is commonly used in gold mining, the presence of this toxin must be constantly monitored. Uranium is commonly discovered in the ore with gold, and as uranium is radioactive, you will need to monitor the levels and check whether or not it has leached into the water provide. This is even a problem on disused mines and mine dumps – lots of our customers living near these come to us to check the standard of their drinking water. Chromium-6, a carcinogenic factor, is a by-product from chrome mines, so you will want to know if humans shall be ingesting water with excessive levels of this.
‘Health is a major cause for a lot of of our clients for drinking water safety, both non-public and within the restaurant commerce for making juices and coffees – and they wish to know the hardness of their municipal water as it impacts their espresso machines.
‘In addition to the above, scope water can be used for dialysis. It is important to notice the sufferers on dialysis have little to no kidney function. Kidneys help compensate for the higher intake of substances obtained from meals and drinks that may in any other case construct up within the physique. Dialyzing with pure water prevents the publicity of substances/toxins that can’t be eradicated from the body. We are presently performing some water quality checks for a renal unit to make sure suitability for dialysis
‘Irrigation water quality is a critical aspect of greenhouse crop production. Water with high alkalinity can have an effect on nutrients uptake by the crops and cause nutrient deficiency which compromises plant well being.
‘Borehole water testing is a well-liked merchandise with prospects who need to know whether the water is safe to make use of on their garden, to fill the pool, to drink and use within the household. In Cape Town, many boreholes have high salt content material, and, after testing the water, some prospects have to dilute it with municipal water or put processes in place to take away a lot of the salts.
‘Through WearCheck, our water amenities provide analytical services by way of an intensive community of operations in South Africa and internationally
‘And’, provides Horsfield, ‘as a results of the worldwide Covid pandemic, we added alcohol content material testing to our services in addition to a newly introduced logistics resolution to allow straightforward movement of water and sanitizer samples.’
Previously, WearCheck was part of the larger Set Point group till the corporate was bought by current homeowners Synerlytic in 2019, together with SetPoint Water Laboratories.
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