International Water Association Water Congress & Exhibition – MANTECH Attends in 2024
The International Water Association World Water Congress and Exhibition (IWA WWCE) attracts thousands of professionals involved in the water sector from around the world. This year, the IWA WWCE occured in Toronto, Canada, not far from our headquarters in Guelph. We took advantage of this to showcase our solutions to a global audience alongside fellow Canadian companies under the Canadian Pavilion.
At our booth we displayed some of our analysis solutions, the PeCOD® analyzer and online autonomous system being the main highlights during discussions.
Measuring both biochemical oxygen demand and chemical oxygen demand (BOD/COD) in 10 minutes attracted many attendees to the booth as they were already familiar with the conventional yet more time-consuming and hazardous methods for BOD and COD analysis.
10-Minute BOD/COD Analyzer
The PeCOD® analyzer is a patented technology which uses a safe & green method meaning no hazardous reagents and special disposal required. The core of its technology occurs in its sensor in which the sample enters and undergoes an advanced oxidation process which oxidizes all the organics in the sample for the COD value. The oxidation power can be adjusted within the software to be less aggressive and provide a BOD value. Unlike optical surrogate methods available, the PeCOD® analyzer’s method is empirical and not dependent on the water matrices.
Attendees were also interested in technology to monitor parameters in an online autonomous format and were astonished to hear about all the possible parameters which could be analyzed by our system. This includes parameters such as pH, alkalinity, conductivity, acidity, ammonia, hardness, turbidity, chlorophyll and more.
MANTECH’s Online Analyzer
These online systems can be placed in the treatment plant to directly sample and analyze from the process line. Utilizing approved and chemistry-based methods already in use by our automated laboratory equipment enables our online systems to obtain empirical results rather than optical measurements. This makes the results more accurate and reliable to better inform water and wastewater treatment decisions.
Since our systems require minimal operator interaction, results and data can be communicated with Modbus TCP and SCADA. Recipients can also receive email notifications with results, actions required, etc.
Presentation on Leveraging Rapid & Empirical Water Monitoring
Throughout the duration of the exhibition, business forum presentations were given by a variety of exhibitors. Our CEO, Robert Menegotto presented one of the business forums to discuss monitoring with the PeCOD® analyzer and our other analysis solutions. The focus being on the benefits of using tools that obtain rapid and empirical data. Check out the presentation here.
If you would like to see our products and speak with a representative in person, join us at an upcoming event. We look forward to meeting you!
