Water & Wastewater Treatment

www.wwtonline.co.uk | WWT | ocTober 2014 | 45 WWEM Visit WWT on stand 41 It's Show Time for WWEM 2014 The five previous WWEM events, which stretch back to 2005, have included conferences addressing testing and monitoring themes within the process and laboratory sectors, in addition to an international exhibition and scores of workshops. However, this year's event will also include a Flow Forum, a 'SMART' Water Forum, an Instrumentation Demonstration Area, a British Water Innovation Exchange and a BMSS Seminar on environmental water analysis. The event (www.wwem.uk.com) will take place at the Telford International Centre on 5th and 6th November and has been designed to offer everyone with a professional interest in water, and environmental testing and monitoring, an opportunity to hear about the latest developments in techniques, technologies, methods, standards and regulatory requirements that relate to the monitoring which takes place both on-site and in the laboratory, covering sampling, field analysis, gas detection and continuous water and wastewater monitoring applications. Visitors to WWEM 2014 will be able to claim Continuing Pro- fessional Development (CPD) time for the event's conferences, forums and workshops. Organiser Marcus Pattison says: "Whether it's wastewater flow and quality monitoring, drinking water testing, laboratory sampling and analysis, or gas detection in confined spaces, WWEM will have something for everyone. This year's event will be the busiest yet, so I cannot emphasise enough how impor- tant it is to plan your visit in advance – WWEM is a working event and visitors need to ensure that they make the most of everything available." conference Day 1: regulation Updates for Process operators (Nov 5th) 10.00–10.30 Operator Monitoring Assessment Version 4 – How effective has it been? Rick Gould, Environment Agency 11.00–11.30 Progress within Europe on CEN standards for instrument certification Andrew Chappell, Environment Agency 12.00–12.30 The importance of testing & certification for environmental monitoring Emily Jarvis, CSA-SIRA 12.30–13.30 Lunch break 14.00–14.30 Instrument testing for MCERTS and other purposes Andy Godley, WRC 15.00–15.30 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of flow monitoring: Experience from the MCERTS flow inspection scheme Nick Richardson, Siris Environmental conference Day 2: Laboratory Techniques and Quality Procedures (Nov 6th) New: Flow Forum Building on the event's monitoring theme, the Flow Forum will take place on Wednesday 5th November including presentations from water companies, MCERTS inspectors and construction partners who will share their experi- ences in flow measurement. Flow meter manufacturers will also present some of the latest measurement techniques and an open forum session will provide attendees with an opportunity to challenge the panel with ques- tions and problems. An Apprentice Instrumentation Competition will also take place during the afternoon session of the Flow Forum. Contestants from the UK's water and sewerage companies will be required to perform a range of instrumen- tation related tasks in front of a live audience of industry professionals. Competition prizes are being provided by a number of industry sponsors, including Siemens & Partech. The prizes include training packages and complementary tickets to the WWEM 2014 Gala Dinner. New: SMART Water Forum Taking place on the second day of WWEM (6 th Nov) the SMART Water Forum will include a UKWIR dissemination workshop, featuring a study which has been ongoing for 18 months on instrumentation, process automation & control in wastewater. This will be followed by presentations on SMART technologies, including the 'Internet of Things', from some of the water sec- tor's leading innovators, including Aquamatix, Syrinix, Nivus and Intellitect Water. Both forums will be hosted by Oliver Grievson, a director of the Sensors for Water Interest Group (SWIG) and manager of the LinkedIn Group Water Industry Process Automation & Control (WIPAC). British Water & WWEM 2014 Innovation Exchange Running throughout the first day of WWEM 2014 (5 th November), this event has been created to bring together water companies, their partners, and representatives from other water-using industries with British Water mem- bers and non-members to identify technology needs and explore available and potential solutions. A booking form is available from the events page of www.britishwater.co.uk . Over 80 Workshops to choose from Workshops will run almost continuously throughout the 2 days and cover an enormous variety of subjects within the overall testing and monitoring theme. The full programme is published on www.wwem.uk.com/work-shop 10.00–10.30 Proficiency Testing: A key piece in the Quality Jigsaw? Fran Bilby, UKAS 10.30–11.00 Recent Advances in Laboratory Analysis Hazel Davidson, Derwentside Environmental Testing Services 11.15–11.45 Sampling and Analysis in relation to Priority Substances Directive 2012/39/EU Prof Clive Thompson, Chief Scientist, ALcontrol 11.45–12.15 New Mobile Sample Tracking Technology Kyle Norris, Northumbrian Water & Sam Goddard, CSols 12.30–13.30 Lunch break 14.00–14.30 The development of a Chemcatcher based passive sampling method for the monitoring of polar pesticides in water Ian Townsend, Head of Organics Laboratory, South West Water 15.15-15.35 Delivering a Fully Automated Water & Environmental Laboratory Environment Using Intelligent Laboratory Software Solutions Bob Poole, Thermofisher Scientific With several new attractions, WWEM 2014, the international Water, Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring conference and exhibition, will be bigger and busier than ever before.

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