Condition monitoring specialist company, 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 analysis company is now built-in totally into WearCheck, and types one more space of experience along with WearCheck’s other services, which embrace scientific used oil evaluation, asset reliability care, transformer oil testing and lubricant-enabled reliability companies.
Set Point Water Laboratories is ISO 17025:2017-accredited, and exams water from any supply – starting from consuming water to manufacturing unit effluent, and every thing in between – to determine the presence and ranges of doubtless dangerous substances.
Set Point Water Laboratories was established in Johannesburg in 1998 as a minerals laboratory, then generally known as Set Point Laboratories. The company launched 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 analysis.
เกจอาร์กอน , basic supervisor of Set Point Water Labs, outlines their services, ‘Our laboratory technicians choose the related checks for the water sample relying on the wants of the customer. They identify what is incorrect with the water and advise prospects on attainable penalties of using / discarding such water.
‘Water evaluation is conducted utilizing numerous accredited methods corresponding to; photometric, electrometric, colorimetric, gravimetric, ICP-OES, ICP MS and enzyme substrates. These strategies get hold of the absolute best leads to chemical and microbial evaluation of effluent/wastewater, consuming water, processed water, floor water and groundwater.
Industrial operations
‘In the case of industrial operations needing to get rid of wastewater into a river system, the ocean or even merely down the drain, there are strict by-laws that have to be adhered to, outlining the “acceptable” ranges of contaminants before disposal, to forestall attainable fines and even prosecution. Our water technicians determine the precise ranges of contaminants and advise on acceptable levels for secure discarding.
‘Many of our mining customers operate boreholes, utilizing the water within the mining process. We often monitor the water high quality from the boreholes to check whether contaminants from the mining process have leached into the water provide.
‘As an instance – cyanide is usually used in gold mining, the presence of this toxin should be continually monitored. Uranium is usually discovered within the ore with gold, and as uranium is radioactive, it is necessary to monitor the levels and check whether or not it has leached into the water supply. This is even a problem on disused mines and mine dumps – a lot of our customers living close to these come to us to check the quality of their ingesting water. Chromium-6, a carcinogenic factor, is a by-product from chrome mines, so you will need to know if humans might be ingesting water with high levels of this.
‘Health is a main purpose for lots of of our customers for consuming water security, each personal and within the restaurant commerce for making juices and coffees – and they want to know the hardness of their municipal water as it affects their espresso machines.
‘In addition to the above, scope water can be utilized for dialysis. It is essential to notice the sufferers on dialysis have little to no kidney perform. Kidneys assist compensate for the upper intake of drugs obtained from food and drinks that would in any other case construct up in the physique. Dialyzing with pure water prevents the publicity of substances/toxins that can not be eradicated from the physique. We are presently performing some water quality checks for a renal unit to ensure suitability for dialysis
‘Irrigation water high quality is a critical side of greenhouse crop manufacturing. Water with excessive alkalinity can affect vitamins uptake by the crops and cause nutrient deficiency which compromises plant health.
‘Borehole water testing is a popular merchandise with clients who need to know whether the water is protected to make use of on their backyard, to fill the pool, to drink and use in the household. In Cape Town, many boreholes have excessive salt content material, and, after testing the water, some clients have to dilute it with municipal water or put processes in place to take away a lot of the salts.
‘Through WearCheck, our water services present analytical companies via an in depth network 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 as well as a newly launched logistics resolution to enable easy motion of water and sanitizer samples.’
Previously, WearCheck was a part of the bigger Set Point group till the company was bought by present homeowners Synerlytic in 2019, together with SetPoint Water Laboratories.
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