As featured in Waterline Autumn 2023 Heat pumps: The future of heating By Dr. Michael de Podesta MBE FInstP Before retirement, Michael was a measurement specialist at the National Physical Laboratory. Since retirement he has focused on the encouraging urgent action on climate change. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and in… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Autumn 2023 The challenge of reduced temperatures in heating systems By Chris Parsloe and Dr Pamela Simpson The drive for building heating solutions with lower carbon dioxide emissions is likely to encourage engineers to adopt lower circulating water temperatures and flow rates. This may have implications for water treatment solutions in… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Summer 2023 Chelants in water treatment:An overview By Kathy Hood BSc (hons), CChem, MRSC – WCS Group Water treatment chemicals for many applications including chemical cleaning, scale inhibition and wastewater treatment contain chelants. The effective use of chelants is particularly critical when considering the topics of scale inhibition and the effective… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Summer 2023 The use of chelants / sequestrants in water treatment Jill Cooper BSc (hons), B&V Chemicals Chelants such as EDTA and NTA are used widely within water treatment. Their uses include, but are not limited to steam boiler treatment programs, closed circuit pre-commission and flushing chemicals and wastewater treatment programs…. Read more »

As featured in Waterline Spring 2023 Women in Water by Dr Pamela Simpson Gender comparison worldwideAnyone working in the water industry will be aware that this is a male orientated sector. Whilst some job roles may be predominantly female, overall the numbers of males far outweigh the females and this is echoed in the number… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Spring 2023 Back to Basics Matt Morse, Principal Consultant, Dragonfly Water Consultancy In my day to day work I see a lot of audits, water treatment programmes, legionella risk assessments and written schemes of control. Many of these that I see suffer from a common problem – they start in the… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Winter 2022-23 From the Archive: This article first appeared in waterline Winter 2019-2020 Effect of sample pH on the identification of an NRB in Closed Hot and Cold Water Systems Pamela Simpson (PhD), Whitewater Technologies Ltd; Richard Jones (MSc), Cheshire Scientific Ltd. IntroductionA closed re-circulating pipework system is one which, as… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Winter 2022-23 How do I interpret my on-site test results? Ian Penney, DTK Water Industrial water treatment in one form or another has been around for a very long time. Without looking too hard I found a citing for phosphorus as a corrosion inhibitor used in the construction of the iron… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Autumn 2022 From the Cradle to the Grave – The lifecycle of water managementWednesday 8th June 2022University of Greenwich, London Governance – Getting it Right First Time Elise Maynard, Director, Water Management Society Elise discussed the various Legislative and guidance documents which are applicable to water safety for all buildings and… Read more »

As featured in Waterline Autumn 2022 Microbial Induced Corrosion in cooling systems and how regular monitoring can mitigate potential problems Catherine Allen BSc Hons, Tintometer Inc. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special Thanks to Curtis Williams BSc, MSc (Hons), Chris Shaw (BSc Hons), MWMSoc), Ian Penney (BSc (Hons), FWMSoc), Kaylie Boland and Karl Hodge for their input and specialist… Read more »