Case Study: Process Instruments (UK) LTD
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PROCESS INSTRUMENTS (UK) LTD
Process Instruments develop and manufacture analysers and controllers for water and water-related industries. The company is a high growth, high-tech, manufacturing enterprise with 23 employees, which has been growing at over 15% p.a. over 7 years. The company exports more than 50% of its turnover and is accredited to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.
PROJECT
Throughout the water industry there are measurements that satisfy all customer requirements, not only technically, but commercially including their carbon footprint. There are also measurements that are troublesome in that they are expensive to buy, require excessive expensive reagents, and are difficult to maintain requiring frequent visits by technical personnel to site. This project investigated low energy solutions to toxic metal monitoring for the water industry. Separation techniques were applied to eliminate the need for costly and short shelf-life chemical reagents usually associated with on-line toxic metal measurements in the field. Such a reduction in instrument service interval could save up to 1320kg of CO2 for a single heavy metals analyser.
AGATA MAKAS
Agata has a background in Forensic Science having graduated with a 2:1 from the University of Derby in 2016. She went on to complete a Master by Research in Chemistry at Lancaster University in 2017 focussing on flow injection analysis of environmental samples and is keen to apply this knowledge to the project.
Lead Academic Supervisor: Prof Peter Fielden
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