Condition monitoring specialist firm, WearCheck, has introduced their sister company, Set Point Water Laboratories into the fold, including a new division to WearCheck’s scientific testing construction.
The water evaluation company is now integrated fully into WearCheck, and forms one more area of experience along with WearCheck’s different providers, 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 – starting from ingesting water to manufacturing unit effluent, and every little thing in between – to discover out the presence and levels of probably 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, attaining accreditation of the Cape Town Laboratory in 2020, and thereafter focusing solely on water evaluation.
Thelma Horsfield, common manager of Set Point Water Labs, outlines their providers, ‘Our laboratory technicians select the relevant tests for the water pattern relying on the needs of the shopper. They determine what is wrong with the water and advise clients on possible consequences of using / discarding such water.
‘Water evaluation is performed using varied accredited techniques corresponding to; photometric, electrometric, colorimetric, gravimetric, ICP-OES, ICP MS and enzyme substrates. These strategies get hold of the absolute best ends in chemical and microbial analysis of effluent/wastewater, ingesting water, processed water, floor water and groundwater.
Industrial operations
‘In the case of business operations needing to eliminate wastewater into a river system, the sea 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 stop attainable fines or even prosecution. Our water technicians decide the exact ranges of contaminants and advise on acceptable ranges for secure discarding.
‘Many of our mining prospects function boreholes, utilizing the water in the mining process. We regularly monitor the water quality from the boreholes to check whether contaminants from the mining process have leached into the water provide.
‘As an example – cyanide is usually used in gold mining, the presence of this toxin have to be constantly monitored. Uranium is often discovered within the ore with gold, and as uranium is radioactive, it may be very important monitor the degrees and check whether it has leached into the water supply. This is even a difficulty on disused mines and mine dumps – a lot of our clients residing near these come to us to test the quality of their consuming water. เกจวัดแรงดูด -6, a carcinogenic factor, is a by-product from chrome mines, so it may be very important know if people shall be ingesting water with excessive ranges of this.
‘Health is a main reason for so much of of our clients for drinking water security, both non-public and within the restaurant trade for making juices and coffees – and they wish to know the hardness of their municipal water as it affects their coffee machines.
‘In addition to the above, scope water can be utilized for dialysis. It is necessary to notice the sufferers on dialysis have little to no kidney function. Kidneys help compensate for the higher consumption of substances obtained from food and drinks that would otherwise construct up within the physique. Dialyzing with pure water prevents the publicity of substances/toxins that can’t be eliminated from the body. We are presently performing some water quality checks for a renal unit to ensure suitability for dialysis
‘Irrigation water quality is a crucial side of greenhouse crop manufacturing. Water with high alkalinity can affect vitamins uptake by the crops and cause 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 within the family. In Cape Town, many boreholes have high salt content material, and, after testing the water, some clients should dilute it with municipal water or put processes in place to take away a lot of the salts.
‘Through WearCheck, our water facilities present analytical services through an extensive network of operations in South Africa and internationally
‘And’, provides Horsfield, ‘as a result of the worldwide Covid pandemic, we added alcohol content material testing to our companies as nicely as a newly launched logistics answer to enable easy motion of water and sanitizer samples.’
Previously, WearCheck was a part of the larger Set Point group till the company was purchased by current house owners Synerlytic in 2019, along with SetPoint Water Laboratories.
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