Air Monitoring 37 AQE’s Best Supplier and End-User
Partnership Award: ACOEM For the past three years, Felicity Sharp has served as the Country Operating Offi cer at ACOEM. For ACOEM’s partnership with South Lanarkshire Council, the fi rm received the Best Supplier and End-User Partnership award at this year’s AQE. To learn a little bit more, we caught up with Felicity on the exhibition fl oor.
“It goes back a very long time, South Lanarkshire Council and ACOEM have had a partnership for almost 20 years! It spans across almost the entire breadth of our company so we service and maintain their reference equipment, we also look after their small sensors, their AQMesh systems and we provide data reports for them. It’s been a brilliant relationship that’s been built on trust and honesty and open communication. So, we’re really, really proud that they’ve been involved in this one, and happy to win it with them.”
Finally, we asked Felicity about why ACOEM attends AQE every year.
“We love AQE! It’s a place where we can meet our customers, our suppliers, our partners and our competitors, have chats and discussions, one-on-one. Also, we love to hear from the speakers at the conference, which had a really great programme, this year.”
‘In 2024, WWEM and AQE will return bigger and better, graduating to the NEC in Birmingham. For more information, please visit:
www.ilmexhibitions.com/ wwem or
www.ilmexhibitions.com/aqeshow’
AQE’s Most Innovative Instrument, Product or
Digital Solution Award: Trolex It’s been a long time coming but Trolex have fi nally unveiled their game-changing, real-time silica monitor, the Air XS. In recognition of this achievement, Trolex received the award for Most Innovative Instrument, Product, or Digital Solution at AQE 2022.
“Around 8 years ago, we were looking at some of the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) statistics and we noted something that was kind of shocking. Three of the top fi ve causes of death and sources of harm to workers in industrial environments were particulates-based: asbestos, silica, and diesel particulates. Nobody seemed to be innovating and the number of deaths - 12,000 a year - was massive. We were like: why is nobody solving this? It took eight years, we set up our own bespoke laser laboratory, we brought experts in from around the world – but we did it.
In simple terms, we’re fi ring a beam at a particle and looking for a number of parameters around size, shape and refractive response, because the refractive response of silica is completely unique. For the fi rst time, you can know in real-time how much respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is in the air, so that workers can be warned, told to evacuate, put their mask on, put on the ventilation or suppression system; people can understand exactly what’s happening in real-time as the situation changes. When they’ve reached the legal limit, it will tell them they need to take action!”
Next, we discussed Trolex’s time at AQE 2022 and why they fi nd the show to be the right venue to promote their ground-breaking products.
“Look, it’s a great show. A lot of our technology partners are here and our distribution partners, too, so we’re obviously looking for customers but also distribution partners. The show’s got a more international audience, too, and that’s important to us. We fi nd it a really useful show for the quality of the people that come on the stand. What we want is people who are genuinely interested in the subject matter, and this is spot-on in terms of that.”
WWEM’s Best Supplier and End-User Partnership
Award: UDLive On to WWEM’s successful exhibitors, now. UDlive has developed the CatsEye II Pixel, a robust, IP68, low-cost radar water level sensor for below and above ground use. Typically, the device is installed under manholes to monitor level and fl ow in sewers.
Thousands of the instruments have been supplied to water companies and there are two main reasons for this success. Firstly, they are able to measure depth over a range of up to 7.5 metres, and secondly, the challenges of communicating with instrumentation inside a manhole have been largely overcome.
Simple to install in less than ten minutes, the CatsEye II Pixel has been designed to run with a low power requirement and has a typical battery life of over seven years with normal use.
UDlive is also working with Public Sewer Services; one of the key partners in the Anglian Water WRN (Water Recycling Networks) Alliance. The WRN manages the maintenance and repair of the Anglian Water sewage network. This includes the inspection, jetting, rodding and cleaning of pipes to keep services fl owing, as well as proactive and emergency work on sewer blockages and repairs. The Alliance is also involved in larger infrastructure projects such as sewer and rising main repairs, manhole refurbishment and replacements, manhole chamber replacements and interceptor removal fl ooding mitigation.
UDlive’s role in the partnership is to develop remote continuous level and fl ow monitoring solutions for sewers. These monitors provide new levels of visibility; enabling higher levels of effi ciency in sewer network management and asset maintenance work. For example, with the benefi t of this data, Alliance partners are able to detect and resolve problems before they affect customers.
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