Pilot Testing

Sometimes there are distinct advantages to running a two week to a six month trial of small scale water treatment equipment to collect data and document the performance of the system proposed for full scale implementation.  This is particularly true when water contaminants change because of production variables, season, process upsets, and similar.  Waste streams in particular nearly always exhibit significant variability and are difficult to model, thus making the data collected in a trial critical. Such data can also help build confidence for operations personnel faced with a new technology (e.g., using reverse osmosis for boiler feedwater in lieu of ion exchange demineralization; membrane degasification in lieu of conventional degassifer).