Condition monitoring specialist company, WearCheck, has brought their sister firm, Set Point Water Laboratories into the fold, including a new division to WearCheck’s scientific testing structure.
The water analysis company is now integrated totally into WearCheck, and types yet another space of expertise together with WearCheck’s different services, which embrace scientific used oil evaluation, asset reliability care, transformer oil testing and lubricant-enabled reliability providers.
Set Point Water Laboratories is ISO 17025:2017-accredited, and exams water from any source – ranging from consuming water to manufacturing facility effluent, and every little 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 recognized 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 evaluation.
Thelma Horsfield, common manager of Set Point Water Labs, outlines their services, ‘Our laboratory technicians select the related checks for the water pattern depending on the needs of the client. They identify what is wrong with the water and advise clients on attainable penalties of using / discarding such water.
‘Water analysis is performed using numerous accredited techniques such as; photometric, electrometric, colorimetric, gravimetric, ICP-OES, ICP MS and enzyme substrates. These strategies get hold of the best possible results in chemical and microbial analysis of effluent/wastewater, ingesting water, processed water, surface water and groundwater.
Industrial operations
‘In the case of industrial operations needing to dispose of wastewater right into a river system, the ocean and even simply down the drain, there are strict by-laws that must be adhered to, outlining the “acceptable” ranges of contaminants before disposal, to stop attainable fines and even prosecution. Our water technicians decide the precise levels of contaminants and advise on acceptable levels for safe discarding.
‘Many of our mining clients function boreholes, utilizing the water within the mining process. We often monitor the water high quality from the boreholes to test whether or not contaminants from the mining process have leached into the water supply.
‘As an example – cyanide is usually used in gold mining, the presence of this toxin should be constantly monitored. Uranium is commonly found within the ore with gold, and as uranium is radioactive, it is essential to monitor the degrees and check whether or not it has leached into the water provide. This is even a difficulty on disused mines and mine dumps – lots of our clients residing close to these come to us to test the standard of their drinking water. Chromium-6, a carcinogenic element, is a by-product from chrome mines, so it is necessary to know if people will be ingesting water with excessive levels of this.
‘Health is a primary reason for so much of of our clients for drinking water safety, both private and in the restaurant trade for making juices and coffees – and so they need to know the hardness of their municipal water because it affects their coffee 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 function. ราคาเกจวัดแรงดัน assist compensate for the upper consumption of drugs obtained from food and drinks that may otherwise build up within the body. Dialyzing with pure water prevents the exposure of substances/toxins that can’t be eliminated from the physique. We are presently performing some water high quality checks for a renal unit to make sure suitability for dialysis
‘Irrigation water high quality is a critical aspect of greenhouse crop production. Water with excessive alkalinity can have an result on nutrients uptake by the crops and cause nutrient deficiency which compromises plant well being.
‘Borehole water testing is a popular item with prospects who wish to know whether the water is secure to make use of 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 need to dilute it with municipal water or put processes in place to take away most of the salts.
‘Through WearCheck, our water facilities provide analytical services by way of an extensive network 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 launched logistics resolution to allow simple motion of water and sanitizer samples.’
Previously, WearCheck was part of the larger Set Point group until the company was bought by present owners Synerlytic in 2019, together with SetPoint Water Laboratories.
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