Industrial Water Treatment & Legionella Risk Assessment

ELGA Process Water, part of the world’s largest environmental services provider Veolia Environnement, provide expert water treatment support to over 4000 clients in the UK. Over the years, we have been known through trade names such as Permutit, PWT, Boby, Dewplan and Vivendi Water Systems.

Our offering, unmatched by any other industrial water treatment company, includes equipment, long and short term rental, 24/7 maintenance programmes, refurbishment and system upgrades, Aquamove emergency mobile equipment, contingency planning, and Aquatrend™ process optimisation.

ELGA provide water treatment equipment for most applications from Power Stations to Breweries, Chemical Works to Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, and from University Laboratories to Hospital Dialysis units.

Using proven technology such as Actiflo® clarification, filtration, reverse osmosis, Rapide Strata ion exchange, continuous electro deionisation (CDI / CEDI), ELGA produce the right quality of water, from sources such as town mains, river or borehole water, and even by recycling used process or cooling water.

Equipment is available for capital purchase, long or short-term rental, both as supply only through to full turnkey installation.

In an emergency, ELGA Process Water’s Aquamove department can have a mobile asset on the road to a customer’s site a couple of hours. ELGA’s engineer will arrive with the mobile water treatment asset, make the connections and put the unit into service.

The fleet of emergency response assets includes:

   • MODi® articulated trailer
   • MORo® containerised reverse osmosis
   • MOFi® forkliftable pre-treatment / ion exchange
   • Flexicon containerised softening / dealkalisation

Aquamove also provide Contingency Planning services ReAct® and PreAct. The ReAct® plan is provided free of charge, the PreAct plan includes pre-inducting of engineers, preferential commercial rates and availability.

The ELGA pre-planned maintenance programmes can be inclusive of parts or consumables and are based around pre-organised visit schedules. Should an issue be more urgent, ELGA’s service call out telephone line is manned 24/7. Service Contracts are available with guaranteed engineer to site times of 24, 8, or 4 hours.

In addition to plant maintenance, ELGA Process Water offer the following:

   • Ion exchange media care, testing and replacement
   • Reverse osmosis membrane cleaning, testing and replacement
   • Stock holding of 10,000 parts
   • 70+ field service engineers – largest process water team in the UK
   • Spares / consumables supply and customer inventory management
   • Plant inspection
   • Technical support
   • Operator training

Refurbishment / Upgrades

Refurbishment / upgrading can extend the useful life of an existing water treatment plant, improve running costs, or the ease of operation.

ELGA specialises in the following areas:

   • Chemical storage and dilution systems / regeneration equipment
   • Header and lateral replacement / upgrade (plastic, stainless, rubber lined)
   • Nozzle plate systems
   • Pressure vessel refurbishment / replacement (grp, stainless, rubber lined)
   • Manway conversion
   • Plant capacity increases
   • Automation & control systems / SCADA

ELGA maintains an archive of many of the original manufacturing drawings from the Permutit and Dewplan installations from 1955.

Aquatrend™ – Process Optimisation
To minimise operating cost and increase reliability / availability of any water treatment system it is imperative to understand the design, the feed water and how it changes with time, changes to the output requirements, and how the plant is actually operated.

ELGA Process Water’s Aquatrend™ Service helps clients get the best performance:

   • Reduced operating costs
   • Increased reliability
   • Allows pre-planning and budget for essential maintenance
   • Desk studies
   • Regular paper based process analysis
   • Telemetry / online analysis
   • Monthly, quarterly’ or annual reports

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