ELGA Process Water - Industrial Water Treatment

ELGA Process Water, part of the world's largest environmental services provider Veolia Environnement, provide expert water treatment support to over 4,000 clients in the UK. Over the years, we have been known through trade names such as Permutit, PWT, Boby, and Dewplan.

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.

WATER TREATMENT EQUIPMENT

ELGA provide water treatment equipment to provide process water for boilers or other applications, side stream filtration of cooling water, condensate polishing and even for the analytical lab.

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 recovering cooling pond water.

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

AQUAMOVE - EMERGENCY MOBILE SOLUTIONS

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 ion exchange with flow rates to >200m³/h and quality <0.1μS/cm conductivity, <20ppb silica.
• 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.

MAINTENANCE PROGRAMMES

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, eight or four hours.

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

• Ion exchange media care, testing and replacement - resin stocked in large volumes in UK
• 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 and 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