The Flow Forum has been created for process managers, providing attendees with an opportunity to challenge the panel with questions and problems. There will also be an Apprentice Instrumentation Competition, in which 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.
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.
International Exhibition – what’s new in laboratory analysis
Featuring over 130 stands representing more than 250 of the world’s leading providers of test and monitoring equipment and related services, the WWEM 2014 Exhibition will be free to enter for pre-registered visitors. Many of the exhibitors will launch new products at the show, a few of which are featured below and over the following pages.
Since the last WWEM in 2012, Shimadzu have launched a laboratory TOC analyser, the TOC-L, with a number of accessories including a Solid Sample Module and Liquid Autosampler, and this is becoming popular for biomass analysis which is a new application for the use of TOC. The ability to have a quick tool to analyse the potential amount of microscopic algae in biomass is extremely important.
Modern Water will display its market leading toxicity monitoring systems, including the new Continuous Toxicity Monitor that uses Microtox® technology. The company’s trace metal range will also be on show in addition to the recently expanded environmental monitoring systems which now include strip tests and a range of fluorometers.
With US EPA for the ChlordioX™ Plus, Palintest will deliver a workshop entitled ’10 things you need to know about the monitoring of total residual oxidants’.
WWEM 2014 Gala dinner
A black tie Gala Dinner will take place on the evening of the 5th November, providing an opportunity to relax and network with other environmental monitoring professionals. Following the dinner, MCERTS certificates will be awarded along with the SWIG ‘Early career researcher prize’ and the Instrument User Group (Water Companies) award for best service provider. The winner of the Apprentice Instrumentation Competition will be announced and guests will be treated to some ‘entertainment’ – the format for which is always a tightly guarded secret…
Summary
With a heavy focus on water and environmental testing and monitoring, the WWEM events attract delegates such as regulators, industrial process operators, water utilities, accreditation organisations, commercial laboratories, instrument manufacturers, consultants, analytical service providers, researchers and academics.
The day-delegate Conference rate is £55. However, registration for the event is FREE of charge and pre-registered visitors (
www.wwem.uk.com) are provided with free access to the exhibition, the Forums and to the workshops, in addition to free on- site parking, complimentary lunch and refreshments.
Palintest has developed a new method for determining chlorine dioxide and chlorite in drinking water, which received US EPA approval in June this year, so WWEM 2014 will be the first time that the technology has been on show in the UK. The ChlordioX™ Plus utilises disposable sensors to revolutionise the testing of chlorine dioxide and its by-products, making monitoring simpler than it has ever been before. Palintest photometers are now available with Bluetooth® SMART which enables much lower power consumption and more reliable pairing of devices, and these will also feature on the Palintest stand.
Over 80 Workshops to choose from
Yes, you did read that correctly; there are over 80 workshops available. Not 8, not 18, but 80 workshops representing 80 of the reasons why WWEM is known as a ‘working event’. Careful planning is necessary if visitors wish to pick the subjects of greatest interest and make the most of their time at WWEM 2014. The Workshops run almost continuously throughout the 2 days and cover an enormous variety of subjects within the overall testing and monitoring theme. Most of the presenters are also exhibitors, all of whom are aware that the best attended workshops are those that are interesting and informative and not too promotional.
The full Workshop programme is published on
www.wwem.uk.com/work-shop.
Two of the eight Workshop rooms will be dedicated to gas detection and monitoring and these presentations will cover technologies such as PID, NDIR, electrochemical and pyroelectric sensors. Workplace exposure, instrument calibration and the creation and certification of calibration standards will be amongst the themes of these workshops.
A significant proportion of the workshops will address a diverse range of laboratory analysis themes. For example, there will be a presentation examining the challenges faced by a sample courier and another looking at AQC charting software. Laboratory accreditation will also be addressed in addition to specialist subjects such as the preparation of inorganic standards, complete ion analysis, TOC, COD, total cyanide and toxicity testing. There will be presentations on automated pH and turbidity testing in addition to seminars on lab robotics. One of the speakers will also provide a comparison between online and laboratory analysis of TOC, ammonia and BOD.
As preparations intensify for WWEM 2014, the organisers are urging visitors to register as soon as possible at
www.wwem.uk.com and to study the workshop and conference programme carefully, so that they can tailor their personal agenda to experience the topics of greatest interest, whilst allocating plenty of time to view the enormous quantity of new products that will be on show in the Exhibition.
Organiser Marcus Pattison says: “Whether it’s wastewater sampling and analysis, drinking water testing, method development, regulatory updates or gas detection, WWEM will have something for everyone. This year’s event will be the busiest yet, so I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to plan your visit in advance – WWEM is a working event and visitors need to ensure that they make the most of everything available.”
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