Condition monitoring specialist company, WearCheck, has brought their sister company, Set Point Water Laboratories into the fold, adding a brand new division to WearCheck’s scientific testing structure.
The water evaluation company is now integrated absolutely into WearCheck, and varieties yet another space of expertise together with WearCheck’s different services, which embody 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 checks water from any supply – ranging from drinking water to manufacturing unit effluent, and every thing in between – to discover out the presence and ranges of potentially harmful substances.
Set Point Water Laboratories was established in Johannesburg in 1998 as a minerals laboratory, then known as Set Point Laboratories. The firm 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 companies, ‘Our laboratory technicians choose the relevant exams for the water pattern relying on the wants of the shopper. They identify what’s mistaken with the water and advise clients on potential penalties of using / discarding such water.
‘Water analysis is carried out using numerous accredited techniques such as; photometric, electrometric, colorimetric, gravimetric, ICP-OES, ICP MS and enzyme substrates. These methods acquire the absolute best results 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 right into a river system, the ocean or even simply down the drain, there are strict by-laws that should be adhered to, outlining the “acceptable” levels of contaminants before disposal, to forestall attainable fines or even prosecution. Our water technicians decide the precise levels of contaminants and advise on acceptable ranges for secure discarding.
‘Many of our mining clients operate boreholes, utilizing the water in the mining process. We regularly monitor the water quality from the boreholes to test whether or not contaminants from the mining process have leached into the water provide.
‘As an instance – cyanide is usually utilized in gold mining, the presence of this toxin should be continuously monitored. Uranium is usually discovered in the ore with gold, and as uranium is radioactive, it is essential to monitor the levels and examine whether or not it has leached into the water provide. This is even a difficulty on disused mines and mine dumps – many of our prospects living near these come to us to check the standard of their consuming water. Chromium-6, a carcinogenic component, is a by-product from chrome mines, so you will want to know if humans will be ingesting water with high levels of this.
‘Health is a main reason for a lot of of our prospects for ingesting water security, each private and within the restaurant commerce for making juices and coffees – and so they need to know the hardness of their municipal water as it affects 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 operate. Kidneys assist compensate for the upper consumption of drugs obtained from meals and drinks that might in any other case construct up within the body. Dialyzing with pure water prevents the exposure of substances/toxins that cannot be eliminated from the body. We are at present performing some water high quality checks for a renal unit to make sure suitability for dialysis
‘Irrigation water high quality is a crucial aspect of greenhouse crop manufacturing. เกจวัดแรงดันน้ำประปาราคา with high alkalinity can have an effect on nutrients uptake by the vegetation and trigger nutrient deficiency which compromises plant well being.
‘Borehole water testing is a well-liked item with prospects who need to know whether or not the water is protected to use on their garden, to fill the pool, to drink and use in the family. In Cape Town, many boreholes have excessive salt content material, and, after testing the water, some clients need to dilute it with municipal water or put processes in place to take away most of the salts.
‘Through WearCheck, our water services present analytical services through an intensive community of operations in South Africa and internationally
‘And’, adds Horsfield, ‘as a results of the global Covid pandemic, we added alcohol content material testing to our companies as nicely as a newly launched logistics solution to allow straightforward movement of water and sanitizer samples.’
Previously, WearCheck was a part of the larger Set Point group until the corporate was bought by present homeowners Synerlytic in 2019, together with SetPoint Water Laboratories.
Share