In July 2020, the Met Office reported that most UK water companies have seen an increase in average water consumption during lockdown, especially those operating in suburban areas.
Throughout pharmaceutical manufacturing, pure and ultrapure water is required for many processes and end products. Both OEMs of production skids and end users appreciate the importance of maintaining the water quality standards in the production loop.
Replacing four fixed-speed pumps with two variable speed-controlled pumps has increased pumping capacity, improved reliability and significantly reduced noise for Anglian Water’s Kentford Moulton site, near Newmarket.
Each winter the ‘Dry January’ campaigners’ remit is to limit the country’s social liquid intake, but it is also the time when compressor users could be battling with a real problem that is quite the opposite – keeping any moisture, with the potential to freeze, out of the air supply and its point of use.
Highly automated analysis devices have become commonplace in many scientific and biotech applications, for example being used as the essential basis for extensive test capacities for the coronavirus.