Identification of unlabelled substances to determine what they contain

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At Envirochem, we often receive unusual samples for analysis. One recent example of this was a set of around 60 bottles collected by us from a residential property. The bottles had been found during a house clearance as the previous owner had owned his own printing company. We created an inventory of the compounds in order to request a quote from a disposal company that we work with. We plan to analyse any unlabelled substances to determine what they are.

During the inventory, we found two bottles containing mercury. Mercury is a very interesting element. It is the only metal to be liquid at room temperature and has a very high surface tension, so forms rounded beads of liquid.

We test many different types of samples for mercury including soil, water, leachates (as part of the WAC testing suite of analysis) and air (mercury fumes or dust).

Envirochem provides tests for Legionella; it is a pathogenic bacterium that can cause Legionnaires disease and Pontiac fever.

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Envirochem provides tests for Legionella; it is a pathogenic bacterium that can cause Legionnaires disease and Pontiac fever. It can be found in domestic water systems, swimming pools and other bodies of water.

We also test for other types of bacteria like EC, TC, TVC and many others.

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Envirochem tests for a number of anions, including fluoride.

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Envirochem tests for a number of anions, including fluoride. Fluoride is naturally present in a large range of plant material and water and needs to be below a certain level to conform to the waste acceptance criteria. It needs to be less than 1.5 mg/l in potable water, less than 5 in effluent water and less than 10mg/kg in soil leachate. We also test for Chloride, Nitrite, Nitrate, Bromide, Phosphate and Sulphate.

 

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Water Analysis – Effluent water suite

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The most commonly requested suite of water analysis is our effluent water suite. This includes suspended solids, ammonia and biological oxygen demand (BOD) and is often carried out on the inlet and outlet sections of water treatment systems to check the efficiency of the process.

In addition to tests required to satisfy Environment Agency (EA) guidelines, we can also accommodate testing requests to meet extra guidelines set by individual local authorities, such as testing for pH, metals, anions and organics. We can also look at the particle size of the suspended solid to determine the correct size of filter needed to remove it from the water.

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Occupational hygiene Services – Water or soil sampling site visits

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Water or soil sampling site visits

Our occupational hygiene team not only carry out site visits for air quality monitoring, they are also available to come to sites and sample both soil and water for analysis. The operative will come to site with all the necessary sampling equipment and can take basic water samples for analysis such as suspended solids, pH and metals, or bacterial water samples for analysis such as Ecoli, legonella and biological oxygen demand. For soil sampling this could be for potential asbestos samples or for WAC certification.

For our site visit charge the cost will be based on the locality from our office in Fareham, which will be an additional fee on top of the analysis. But this takes away any courier costs or worry of the sample/s not being taken adequately for the analysis intended and also to ensure they meet our UKAS certification guidelines (for our certificated procedures only).

If you would like to book in either a one off visit, or to set up routine visits to your site for sampling, please see the form below, Or if you are unsure of the analysis you require, we can also provide expert advice to suit the needs of your business or site.

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Envirochem offers a large range of Colourmetric Testing

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Envirochem offers a large range of Colourmetric Testing. Colourmetric testing  can result in a wide variety of colour changes, for example we recently tested for chromium VI (chromate). These tests can be carried out on water or soil samples to find a variety of contaminants.

 

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Waste Water and Effluent Water Analysis

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Envirochem offers waste water and effluent water analysis for many common pollutants, such as metals, anions, hydrocarbons, suspended solids, pH, ammonia, phenols and BOD (biological oxygen demand). We can also analyse water from other sources.

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Legionella Bacteria Detected In The Cooling Towers Of Sellafield

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The bacteria Legionella have been detected at high levels in tower at the Highly Active Liquid Effluent and Storage (HALES) facility. The chief nuclear inspector has released a statement assuring that there has not been an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease and that this does not impact nuclear safety.

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Envirochem offer tests for Legionella in many environments including:

  • Domestic water systems
  • Cooling towers
  • Any drinking water service
  • Swimming pools
  • Spa pools
  • Car washes
  • Effluent
  • And many more

For more information on Legionella testing please visit the Microbiology page of our website or fill in the form below.

 

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Successful UKAS Assessment

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We are proud to announce that Envirochem has had another successful UKAS audit.

UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) is the accreditation body who checks that we are maintaining the high level of our sampling, analysis and reporting procedures.

We have maintained all of our current scope of accreditation which includes; the sampling and analysis of total inhalable and respirable dust,  water analysis for anions (bromide, chloride, fluoride, nitrate and sulphate) and metals (arsenic, barium, cadmium, calcium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, lead, mercury, potassium, magnesium, manganese, sodium, nickel, thallium, zinc. Also our Mcerts accreditation for anions (chloride and sulphate) and metals (arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, manganese, nickel and zinc) in soil is also maintained.

During the visit Envirochem also had two extensions to the scope of our accreditation assessed. – Lead and Chromium in Paint and Bacteriological testing of water for total viable count, legionella, e-coli, pseudomonas and total coliforms.

These extensions to scope were both successful upon the clearance of findings.

Envirochem is an organisation that strives to deliver the very best service to our clients, therefore having our UKAS accreditation reassures our clients that they are receiving results that are reliable and accurate.   

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