The operational costs of all water treatment systems are not just driven by the volumes of water being treated, but more importantly by the chemistry of the water. For this reason, a water treatment audit must include both hydraulic flows, and also a chemical mass balance. This type of Total Water System (TWS) holistic audit allows us to create a virtual model of your complete industrial water system. The addition of chemistry permits us to match actual water sample chemical analyses with the model, thus validating the whole model. Once we have this, we are then able to model variations on the current system, establishing the impact of such changes as water sources, flows, consumption, chemistry and costs.
For some organisations, understanding your current water system is a sufficient goal, but for many it is looking for the optimum means, financially and technically, of reducing water consumption through reuse or recycling.
We have experience of carrying out TWS audits in industries as varied as power generation, paper manufacturing, data centres, refineries and chemical plants in regions including Europe, North and South America, India, South Africa and Eastern Asia. Most of our team have worked with Data Mobility Systems (Falmouth, Maine) in the past – which originally developed this technology. (DMS is now owned by Ecolab).