Condition monitoring specialist company, WearCheck, has brought 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 totally into WearCheck, and varieties one more area of expertise along with WearCheck’s other providers, which embody scientific used oil analysis, asset reliability care, transformer oil testing and lubricant-enabled reliability services.
Set Point Water Laboratories is ISO 17025:2017-accredited, and tests water from any source – ranging from ingesting water to manufacturing facility effluent, and everything in between – to determine the presence and ranges of probably harmful substances.
Bonanza was established in Johannesburg in 1998 as a minerals laboratory, then generally recognized as Set Point Laboratories. The company introduced 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 analysis.
Thelma Horsfield, common manager of Set Point Water Labs, outlines their companies, ‘Our laboratory technicians choose the relevant exams for the water pattern relying on the needs of the client. They identify what is incorrect with the water and advise clients on attainable 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 techniques obtain the finest possible leads to chemical and microbial analysis of effluent/wastewater, ingesting water, processed water, surface water and groundwater.
Industrial operations
‘In the case of commercial operations needing to eliminate wastewater right into a river system, the sea and even simply down the drain, there are strict by-laws that must be adhered to, outlining the “acceptable” levels of contaminants before disposal, to stop potential fines or even prosecution. Our water technicians decide the precise ranges of contaminants and advise on acceptable levels for secure discarding.
‘Many of our mining prospects operate boreholes, using the water within the mining process. We frequently monitor the water high quality from the boreholes to check whether or not contaminants from the mining process have leached into the water supply.
‘As an instance – cyanide is often used in gold mining, the presence of this toxin should be constantly monitored. Uranium is usually found in the ore with gold, and as uranium is radioactive, it is essential to monitor the degrees and examine whether it has leached into the water supply. This is even an issue on disused mines and mine dumps – many of our customers dwelling close to these come to us to check the standard of their ingesting water. Chromium-6, a carcinogenic component, is a by-product from chrome mines, so it could be very important know if humans will be ingesting water with excessive levels of this.
‘Health is a main reason for a lot of of our customers for consuming water security, each personal and in the restaurant trade for making juices and coffees – and so they want to know the hardness of their municipal water as it affects their coffee machines.
‘In addition to the above, scope water can be used for dialysis. It is necessary to note the sufferers on dialysis have little to no kidney operate. Kidneys help compensate for the upper consumption of drugs obtained from food and drinks that may in any other case build up in the physique. Dialyzing with pure water prevents the publicity of substances/toxins that can not be eradicated from the physique. We are currently doing some water high quality checks for a renal unit to ensure suitability for dialysis
‘Irrigation water high quality is a critical side of greenhouse crop manufacturing. Hidden with high alkalinity can affect vitamins uptake by the vegetation and trigger nutrient deficiency which compromises plant health.
‘Borehole water testing is a well-liked item with clients who want to know whether or not 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 excessive salt content material, and, after testing the water, some prospects have to dilute it with municipal water or put processes in place to remove a lot of the salts.
‘Through WearCheck, our water services provide analytical providers via an intensive network of operations in South Africa and internationally
‘And’, adds Horsfield, ‘as a results of the global Covid pandemic, we added alcohol content 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 half of the bigger Set Point group until the company was bought by present owners Synerlytic in 2019, together with SetPoint Water Laboratories.
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