14 WWEM Preview
WWEM 2012
www.wwem.uk.com
7th & 8th November
Telford International Centre, Telford, England
It’s show time! WWEM 2014, Telford International Centre, UK, 5-6th November
WWEM 2014
With several new attractions, WWEM 2014, the international Water, Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring conference and exhibition, will be bigger and busier than ever before. The fi ve previous WWEM events, which stretch back to 2005, have included conferences addressing testing and monitoring themes within the Process and Laboratory sectors, in addition to an international exhibition and scores of workshops. However, this year’s event will also include:
1. Flow Forum: “The Do’s and Don’ts of Installation and Measurement” 2. ‘SMART’ Water Forum: “What does the future hold for water monitoring?” 3. Instrumentation Demonstration Area 4. British Water Innovation Exchange
5. BMSS Seminar: ‘The application of chromatography-mass spectrometry to environmental water analysis’
The event (
www.wwem.uk.com) will take place at the Telford International Centre on 5th and 6th November and has been designed to offer everyone with a professional interest in water, and environmental testing and monitoring with an opportunity to hear about the latest developments in techniques, technologies, methods, standards and regulatory requirements that relate to the monitoring which takes place both on-site and in the laboratory, covering sampling, fi eld analysis, gas detection and continuous water and wastewater monitoring applications.
Visitors to WWEM 2014 will be able to claim Continuing Professional Development (CPD) time for the event’s Conferences, Forums and Workshops. WWEM organiser Marcus Pattison says: “This is great news for the event because it provides formal recognition of the value of the many learning experiences at WWEM 2014 and provides delegates with reassurance that their visit will be worthwhile.”
Conference: ‘Regulation Updates for Process Operators’
The fi rst day’s Conference will focus on the monitoring aspects of industrial and municipal monitoring, beginning with the Environment Agency’s Rick Gould, who will provide a training presentation on the Agency’s Operator Monitoring Assessment (OMA) tool. A further EA presentation by Andy Chappell will provide an update on the development of 3 CEN standards for the assessment of water quality monitoring equipment (auto-samplers, continuous monitors and portable monitors). An update will also be provided for a similar project looking at CEN standards for fl ow monitoring devices.
Emily Jarvis from CSA-Sira will explain how schemes such as MCERTS have shown that independent approval of instrument manufacturers’ specifi cations is still required, and she will demonstrate this with case studies and examples. To complement this, Andy Godley from WRc will describe the process for independent instrument testing under MCERTS from the agreement of the test programme, to delivery of the report.
Over the past 10 years thousands of municipal and industrial sites have had MCERTS fl ow inspections, and Nick Richardson from Siris Environmental will fi nish the fi rst day by sharing his experiences with the scheme, outlining ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’ of fl ow monitoring.
Conference: ‘Laboratory Techniques and Quality Procedures’
Addressing a laboratory analysis theme, the second day’s Conference will commence with a presentation on profi ciency testing by Fran Bilby from UKAS, in which she will discuss key aspects of the UKAS document TPS 47. Hazel Davidson from Derwentside Environmental Testing Services will then describe how lower limits of detection can be achieved by improved instrumentation or by using larger volumes of sample. Hazel’s presentation will also include an examination of good sampling protocols.
Intriguingly, Professor Clive Thompson from ALcontrol will deliver a presentation entitled: ‘Sampling and analysis in relation to Priority Substances Directive 2012/39/EU’ for which he says he will provide “a devil’s advocate response”.
South West Water, in collaboration with the University of Portsmouth and Natural Resources Wales, have developed methods using the Chemcatcher™ passive sampler to monitor for a range of acid herbicides including Mecoprop and MCPA, and the molluscicide Metaldehyde in surface waters. This subject will be addressed by Ian Townsend, Head of South West Water’s Organics Laboratory, who will outline the development of a Chemcatcher-based sampling method for the monitoring of polar pesticides in water.
Kyle Morrris from CSols will outline the advantages of a mobile data capture system that is designed specifi cally for the UK and European Water Industries, and Bob Poole from Thermofi sher Scientifi c will discuss the key features of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) to deliver a fully automated, effi cient and intelligent approach to sample receipt and scheduling, resource management, collecting, processing and acting upon results, and securely managing data.
IET September / October 2014
www.envirotech-online.com New: Flow Forum
Building on the event’s monitoring theme, the Flow Forum will take place on Wednesday 5th November including presentations from Water Companies, MCERTS Inspectors and construction partners who will share their experiences in fl ow measurement. Flow meter manufacturers will also present some of the latest measurement techniques and an open forum session will provide attendees with an opportunity to challenge the panel with questions and problems.
An Apprentice Instrumentation Competition will also take place during the afternoon session of the Flow Forum. Contestants from the UK’s water and sewerage companies will be required to perform a range of instrumentation related tasks in front of a live audience of industry professionals. Competition prizes are being provided by a number of industry sponsors, including Siemens & Partech. The prizes include training packages and complementary tickets to the WWEM 2014 Gala Dinner.
New: SMART Water Forum
Taking place on the second day of WWEM (6th Nov) the SMART Water Forum will include a UKWIR dissemination workshop, featuring a study which has been ongoing for 18 months on Instrumentation, Process Automation & Control in wastewater. This will be followed by presentations on SMART technologies, including the ‘Internet of Things’, from some of the water sector’s leading innovators, including Aquamatix, Syrinix, Nivus and Intellitect Water.
Both Forums will be hosted by Oliver Grievson, a Director of the Sensors for Water Interest Group (SWIG) and Manager of the LinkedIn Group Water Industry Process Automation & Control (WIPAC).
New: BMSS Seminar - ‘The application of chromatography-
mass spectrometry to environmental water analysis’ The British Mass Spectrometry Society will run a seminar at WWEM 2014 on 5th November from 11am to 3.15pm. The applications of Chromatography – Mass spectrometry are extremely wide ranging; none more so than in the analysis of environmental water matrices. Depending on the sophistication of the mass spectrometry as an analysing tool, sample preparation is either of vital importance or may be largely unnecessary. The purpose of the analysis is to characterise the sample as fully as possible or to measure discrete components with high precision. This meeting is designed to draw attention to the methodology employed to analyse environmental water containing target compounds with a range of physico-chemical properties. The analysis may be intentionally non-targeted, for example, to screen for many classes of substance without chemical bias.
www.wwem.uk.com
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80
