There has been increasing awareness in recent years of the work by the Environment Agency to implement the 'polluter pays' principle, with news of successful prosecutions of large organisations. The 'polluter pays' principle is also at the heart of current governmental discussions on implementation of a Green Brexit. The aim of the morning session is to provide Industrial dischargers, Water companies, Contractors and Instrumentation providers an update on implementation of successful monitoring systems which ensure compliance and show how Industry themselves benefit from discharge monitoring.
| Time | Presentation | Speaker(s) | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Introduction by the Chairman | Justin Dunning, Chelsea Technologies Group | |
| 10:10 | Flow and Effluent Monitoring requirements in groundwater activity permits | Lucy Snape, Environment Agency | |
| 10:40 | Remote monitoring of final effluent using Multiparameter Sondes | Matt Dibbs, Meteor Communications | |
| Coffee Break & Networking (11:10 - 11:30) | |||
| 11:30 | An automatic monitoring solution to prove trade effluent discharge for a food processing company | Joy Ye, Dynamic Flow Technologies | |
| 12:00 | CENTAUR - Using Artificial Intelligence for active discharge control | Kieran Williams, EM Solutions | |
This session will explore the way that insights and value can be extracted from the huge amounts of data that is either already available or that will be generated by future deployments. The focus will be on the way issues such as data availability, data validity are addressed to allow powerful analytics and human examination to focus in on outliers and events. One key aim of any potential user of smart water systems is to move from a largely reactive world to a predictive world. This session will give insights into how that is possible.
| Time | Presentation | Speaker(s) | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Introduction by the Chairman | Mike Strahand, ATi | |
| 13:40 | The art of the possible: smart water distribution networks | Vicky Banks, ATi | |
| 14:10 | Wastewater reuse and service management using Internet of Things | Laurie Reynolds, Aquamatix and Aquality | |
| Coffee Break & Networking (14:30 - 14:45) | |||
| 14:45 | Using machine learning on a cloud platform to extract value from water quality data | Steve Hanslow, Siemens | |
| 15:15 | Case study of large scale water quality monitor deployment in distribution network | Garry Tabor, ATi Jez Downs, Southern Water Luke Valvona, Intellitect |
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| 15:45 | Close | ||
Justin Dunning manages the Sales and Marketing department at Chelsea Technologies Group (CTG), promoting a range of environmental sensors within the ocean, coastal and inland water sectors as well as the industrial processing sector. Before joining Sales and Marketing, he was responsible for the marine systems group within CTG's research and development department. He originally joined the company as a design engineer after working in Temperature Sensing after qualifying in Engineering at Plymouth Polytechnic. Justin has been a SWIG Director since February 2010.
I have 25 years experience in building businesses that operate in the water industry, in both the clean and the wastewater treatment market. I am a PhD chemist who has the ability to apply that knowledge to solving process application problems. I have helped thousands of people in hundreds of companies to optimise their processes.
I have worked at all stages of the business, design, manufacture and application of on line instrumentation to the monitoring and control of processes, especially water processes. Through in depth knowledge and application of that knowledge I have earned the nickname Doctor Chlorine from my customers and peers.I work with all the UK's water utility plc's and have connections at all levels in these organizations.
I specialize in applying my in depth knowledge of chemistry to the application of sensors to the monitoring and control of water treatment and waste water treatment processes and building sales organisation businesses based on this.
Dr. Kevin Honeychurch is a member of the Centre for Research in Biosciences and the Institute of Bio-sensing Technology. His main research interests have been in the design, development and application of carbon, silver and gold electrodes for the determination of biologically and environmentally important compounds. He is also undertaking a number of studies utilising liquid chromatography with electrochemical, UV and MS detection alongside gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (GC/MS) to elucidate the environmental degradation and behaviour of several important pollutants and nicotine in third-hand smoke. Dr. Honeychurch has published over 50 peer reviewed papers in both electroanalysis and chromatographic science. Dr. Honeychurch is Chartered Chemist (CChem) and an active member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). In addition, he regularly reviews for funding agencies such as the BBSRC. He recently acted as editor for a book entitled "Nanosensors for chemical and biological applications, sensing with nanotubes, nanowires and nanoparticles" (Elsevier. ISBN 9780857096609) published in 2014. Presently he is responsible for the supervision and assessment of a number of undergraduate and postgraduate project students undertaking their final year laboratory based research projects.
Anupam is a Manager in the Water Industry Practice at Accenture with a focus to help clients derive value from their physical assets by leveraging Digital technologies and tools for Analytics. He advises clients on operating model transformation required to embed digital technologies in their core business and IT organisation. In addition, he has experience of demonstrating two-speed IT delivery model for Utility clients.
Jez has 20 years experience in the water industry, initially 13 years in consultancy and the last 7 working for Southern Water. His expertise is primarily in the field of clean water hydraulic modelling and he has lead teams within Southern Water in Asset Management, Operations and now in Compliance & Asset Resilience where the current focus is on developing zonal plans to maintain a resilient water supply to customers.
Luke joined Intellitect water at the start of the year to aid with the expansion of the company. Luke graduated from Glamorgan University with a degree in Civil engineering and has worked in technical positions since.
Matt Dibbs is Managing Director at Meteor Communications, an innovative environmental monitoring solutions company. Over the past few years Meteor have pioneered use of high resolution, real time monitoring systems for Final Effluent and Catchment monitoring using the Meteor ESNET platform and xylem EXO multiparameter sondes. Over 300 of these systems are currently in service with Water Utilities, Government Agencies and Consultants. Matt has a background in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications, developing robust reliable systems for data acquisition, control and dissemination.
Laurie is a Chartered Systems and Water Engineer. He worked for Thames Water for 30 years, when he left in 2002, he held the position of Principal Engineer - ICA (Instrumentation, Control and Automation) He led many SCADA, telemetry and automation projects, presented papers at UK and International conferences and won a Water Industry Innovation award in 1999 for a leakage reduction project in London - one of the first IOT systems in the water industry.
Subsequently, he worked for a systems integrator, consultant in energy efficient pumping systems, founder of a condition monitoring technology company and 2 years with Virgin Media. He founded AQX to pioneer the development of an open architecture for water management powered by industrial IOT, and a new concept in service delivery of advanced automation for water management.
I've worked in the water industry for 25 years, from early foundations of a MSc in Management of the Water Environment, through to my current role of Programme Management of delivery of information and analytics within United Utilities. I have hold numerous and varied roles in the water industry. This has included: Operational Management managing United Utilities largest supply area; Regulatory roles included management of four Price Reviews; Strategic Asset Management delivering risk based solutions to long term asset planning; Data Strategy Manager including programme management of key data migration projects; and more recently programme managing a complex series of information and analytics deliveries across United Utilities Customer Experience Programme.
Having joined Siemens 25 years ago, Steve understands the issues facing the UK water industry. As part of his role as Head of Water & Waste Water, Siemens UK & Ireland, Steve works closely alongside Global Water Sector HQ advising on the UK industry challenges to develop value based solutions and technologies for the UK water industry. In addition, Steve oversees a number of teams, closely collaborating with the supply chain to meet the challenges around asset performance, operational efficiency, and data acquisition and visualisation.
Alongside ongoing themes within the water & waste water sector, including: The Internet of Things, automation, Industry 4.0, digitisation, productivity, and Connected Manufacturing, Steve is also able to provide expert comment on the following topics and themes:
