ELGA Process Water has upgraded a laboratory’s existing water system, resulting in a 25 per cent reduction in mains water use.
Poole, Dorset, UK-based ACS Environmental Testing is a UKAS accredited laboratory specialising in water, wastewater, leachate and soil testing. Analysing for trace levels of a wide range of contaminants means sophisticated instruments like HPLC, mass spectrometry and ion chromatography, all of which rely on ultrapure water.
Each of the ACS laboratories – sample preparation, standards preparation and chemistry – was equipped with a PURELAB Option Q7 capable of supplying 7 litres per hour of 18.2megohm.cm Type 1 laboratory grade water. But ACS’s rapid growth since 2006 meant that they were running critically short of ultrapure water.
“We were happy with the PURELAB units, so we talked to our ELGA Service Engineer to find out what we could do to increase capacity,” says ACS’s Stuart White. Rather than replacing the PURELAB Option 7s, ELGA Process Water’s solution was more sustainable. They upgraded the units to deliver 15 litres per hour of water, sufficient for ACS’s future needs.
“The ELGA Service Engineer was really helpful, and took a genuine interest in our problem,” says Stuart. “He also suggested a number of ways in which we could reduce our mains water consumption by reusing waste water, and helped us to design and install the necessary piping modifications. It has been so successful that we were awarded a commendation from Wessex Water and they are using us as a best practice reference site.”
For more information, www.elgaprocesswater.co.uk
Poole, Dorset, UK-based ACS Environmental Testing is a UKAS accredited laboratory specialising in water, wastewater, leachate and soil testing. Analysing for trace levels of a wide range of contaminants means sophisticated instruments like HPLC, mass spectrometry and ion chromatography, all of which rely on ultrapure water.
Each of the ACS laboratories – sample preparation, standards preparation and chemistry – was equipped with a PURELAB Option Q7 capable of supplying 7 litres per hour of 18.2megohm.cm Type 1 laboratory grade water. But ACS’s rapid growth since 2006 meant that they were running critically short of ultrapure water.
“We were happy with the PURELAB units, so we talked to our ELGA Service Engineer to find out what we could do to increase capacity,” says ACS’s Stuart White. Rather than replacing the PURELAB Option 7s, ELGA Process Water’s solution was more sustainable. They upgraded the units to deliver 15 litres per hour of water, sufficient for ACS’s future needs.
“The ELGA Service Engineer was really helpful, and took a genuine interest in our problem,” says Stuart. “He also suggested a number of ways in which we could reduce our mains water consumption by reusing waste water, and helped us to design and install the necessary piping modifications. It has been so successful that we were awarded a commendation from Wessex Water and they are using us as a best practice reference site.”
For more information, www.elgaprocesswater.co.uk
