Liqum Pioneers Virtual Water Management
Solutions.
May 1, 2008, Atlanta, GA --- Liqum Inc. (www.Liqum.com) has released the new real-time Virtual Water
Management Service, and Water-Efficiency Management Index Software, WEMI, to
contribute to international efforts to combat the world's escalating water
crisis. WEMI provides solutions to sustainable industrial water usage, and
improved OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness).
Virtual Water Management Service automates water
quality monitoring, and measures how effectively water is being used in the
consumer product, energy, and food sectors of production.
WEMI promotes intelligent industrial management
decisions, reveals in-efficiences, financial impacts, and communicates essential
knowledge for sustainable water resource management, and policies.
Virtual water has major impacts on trade policy and research, especially in water-scarce regions. WEMI explains why and
how water is being wasted, and provides solutions to water users on how to
improve water-efficiency, reduce waste water, reduce risks, and improve
productivity.
Water scarcity in many parts of the world, forces
businesses to develop new and alternative water management strategies to reduce
pressure on the scarcely available domestic water resources. For example,
freshwater and chemical usage can be reduced in intensive large scale industrial
processes, by investing in a simple cost-effective real-time electrochemical
water monitoring system and online management service.
Water quality
is a huge issue worldwide. H2oAlliance has formed a unique public
and private partnership (PPP) program to deliver virtual water management
solutions, new innovative water technologies, and services to improve
our understanding of virtual water-related management issues including
water-efficiency, risk management, resource management, financial impact,
process automation, and process control challenges.
WEMI is a new voice for sustainable water
development, and an expert virtual water management advisor. All services are
available on local, regional and global scales, enabling successful and
sustainable use of water resources. Liqum is committed to virtual water
research, and will continue empowering individuals, businesses, and
organizations to affect water management on a global scale.
Liqum supports
communities and countries,while providing perspective on virtual water
management processes that can improve food and water security for all
nations.
Virtual Water Reference:
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WEMI, Water-Efficiency Management Index, to the Rescue of Water Stress
February 18, 2008, Atlanta, GA --- Liqum Inc. will release the new WEMI, Water-Efficiency Management Index software, and an online water management service in March, 2008.
WEMI helps to better understand and monitor
water-related issues, specific risks and problems. It will assist the
private sector water users and idustrial management teams to further assess
water-efficiency, water stress and pollution, and generate projects to
save water, chemicals, and energy.
WEMI will help the public
sector to develop new real-time online water databases to monitor environmental
and industrial performance. It allows for a broad set of consistent
indicators to be collected and evaluated when deciding on priorities, and future
strategies.
WEMI will keep operation and management
teams informed to improve industrial and environmental water capacity management
on a local, national and international scale.
WEMI fills the need to present
data representing overall water quality and availability, and provides a basis
to establish consistent standards of measurement and methodology.
It enables real-time data collection in
order to establish an empirical foundation for water resource
management.
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H2oAlliance Announces the Release of the
First Complete Real-Time Water-Efficiency Management Platform in the World
February 14, 2008, Atlanta, GA ---
H2oAlliance announces the release of WEMS,
Water-Efficiency Management Platform, the first complete real-time water measuring,
monitoring, and early warning system in the world.
WEMS is a new integrated water control system that
will become the flagship platform for the "Get more out of Water"
initiative. It helps industrial water users reduce the water stress and pollution
in the environment, analyse and summarize
complex multidimensional phenomena, intepret analysis, and to facilitate the communication within companies,
research and management teams.
The launch of the WEMS
platform takes the "Get more out of Water" initiative to its next evolutionary
step, integrating global, real-time, online, wireless and mobile water
monitoring and management solutions, and services into one platform. WEMS will replace the role of many traditional and
costly control systems and lab services, and research, measuring, monitoring and analysis tools.
The real-time technology makes it easy
to leverage water-efficiency and reduce waste on a broad scale; the
system collects large amounts of data that is
required to track and identify water-related
problems, and to optimise the use of water, chemicals and energy.
WEMS uses electrochemistry, and patented time-tested single sensor liquid monitoring
technology to collect and analyse data in real-time. It gathers together knowledge, process data, and new
information about the state of the liquid process chemistry. This
information is combined and then refined, using an intelligent data handling
system, into a compressed and visual form to enable the necessary corrective, or
indeed preventive actions to be taken.
WEMS provides
data processing, infrastructure, and an accurate real-time data system, that is
critical to operators, management and research teams. WEMS provides operators with effortless and real-time control
of the entire process, and contributes to the smooth
implementation of planned process changes. Operators and management personnel are
well-informed, changes and events disturbing
production are detected early, so that corrective action can be taken before the
disturbance leads to economic loss. A stable process improves water-efficiency, and maximizes
productivity.
WEMS can be applied to a variety of industrial
uses, from water research to quality management in manufacturing, to water industry index
financial analysis, and environmental monitoring. It is guaranteed to reduce freshwater, chemical and energy consumption. It is
designed to optimise water quality, OEE, and process performance.
A small investment in WEMS can easily pay for itself within
less than a year. Starting in March 2008, industrial water users around the world can gain special access to the WEMS online platform, and the WEMS monitoring tool, and start managing their water resources more efficiently for a one-time license fee, and a monthly
service fee.
The WEMS technology has been tested in Europe, USA and South America in over 50 industrial processes with great success during the past eight years. All water users have reported improved OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency), and up to 25% savings in freshwater and chemical usage. WEMS has been
evaluated as the most advanced real-time water measuring, monitoring and early warning system by some of the world's
leading process automation engineers, scientists, researchers, and technology, chemical, and electrochemical experts.
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A Small Investment in Simple Water Technology Can Prevent Major Drinking Water Disasters
Atlanta, GA, December 6, 2007 --- Concerns about the effects of climate change and freshwater distribution, floods, and droughts, have made "WATER QUALITY" one of the hottest issues for people around the world.
“A small investment in simple and affordable real-time water monitoring technology can prevent major drinking water disasters. Constant water quality monitoring, measuring and analysis are critical, especially during drought conditions, and long dry season”, according to Sakari Laitinen, CTO, Liqum Inc., Finland.
Raw and treated drinking water quality varies from place-to-place, time-to-time, depending on the condition of the source water from which it is drawn, and the treatment it receives. Measuring, monitoring and controlling water quality and purification processes places great demands on water treatment plants during drought.
Water treatment plants can manage risk and prevent major drinking water disasters by simply installing a real-time electrochemical water quality monitoring system called “FreshWaterAlert” in their facilities. The system was developed by Liqum Water Technology Group in Finland. It analyzes water quality in real-time, alerts any changes in water quality, eliminates human error, minimizes risk, and secures safe drinking water quality at all times. It is a win-win situation in every community.
The application of an electric signal, and the monitoring of the liquids, can also detect key substances in most industrial processes. A series of electro analytical techniques offers the possibility of performing a plethora of qualitative or quantitative determinations of substances in several of matrices. These substances are analyzed by techniques that make use of electrochemical detectors. Electrochemical techniques offer increasing degrees of accuracy, and detection limits, often involving dramatically lower costs than other techniques.
Constant electrochemical water quality monitoring is vital in potable and waste water management, and a key to success in industrial process management. Real-time water quality monitoring offers a series of advantages; it saves water; reduces chemical and energy consumption; minimizes waste water emissions, by-product formation, raw material usage; improves efficiency, productivity and profitability.
For more information, go to:
www.Liqum.com
Water Quality Management & Drought
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Constant Water Quality Monitoring is Vital During the Drought
Atlanta, GA, November 4, 2007 --- The
effects of climate change and drought direct community and business
leaders' attention to real-time electrochemical water monitoring
solutions.
It is essential that the community and business
leaders address the freshwater problems and promote the use of water
quality monitoring technologies to conserve freshwater and prevent
possible crisis. Constant water quality monitoring is vital, especially
during drought and long dry season.
Click here: Facts about Water Quality in Ground Water, Lakes, Desalination, Industry
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The Water-Efficiency Management Index, WEMI launched
Atlanta, GA, September 25, 2007 --
The Online Water- Efficiency Management Index,
WEMI was launched today.
WEMI online data network makes it easy to manage liquid-related
industrial processes anywhere, 24/7. It collects and analyses data in real-time, and monitors, alerts, tracks, and reports water-related problems
instantly. The technology can be
applied to a variety of industrial uses, from water
quality management in pulp and paper or bottling process, to water utility index financial analysis.
WEMI uses patented real-time single-sensor electrochemical
measuring, monitoring, and early warning technologies. It helps
companies to better optimize freshwater consumption, and water quality in industrial processes.
WEMI offers two big opportunities for water utility,
paper and pulp, mining and minerals, food and beverage, pharmaceutical,
environmental, research, financial, and oil and gas companies worldwide. The first, for technology to help
companies leverage freshwater use, and provide solutions for water-efficiency on a broad scale. The second, for online data
centers, and analytics. A a massive amount of data is required for tracking water-efficiency
in an industrial process, and analyzing problems
in water quality to optimize water usage. All data needs to be transferred,
stored, retrieved, and backed up.
WEMI provides the infrastructure to deal with the amount of
data that most industrial process operators need to analyze. It
takes care of data processing, so that companies, operators and experts can
focus on what they are good at - production of their products and services.
WEMI is looking for new partners, companies and people who
understand the specific markets, and liquid-related industrial processes in
their field of expertise. Our partners have existing customer base as they are the best of breed in their
own industry. They have invested time, and resources to develop, and
test technologies to make sure they work the way they should.
The WaterTech Cluster is committed to continue to develop
new technologies, data centers, and platforms to operate WEMI globally. As a
group of companies, we create a strong presence worldwide. We cross-promote technologies, products
and services to better serve our customers, and help each other become more successful.
For information, please contact Advantages International
LLC, corporate communications: tanews@comcast.net
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Liqum® technology; to customize water, maximize quality, increase profitability, and save the environment.
Atlanta, GA, July 16, 2007 – Advantages International LLC is now bringing Liqum's expertise, and Chena®
technology to water, food and beverage,
agriculture, paper & pulp, mining and minerals, pharmaceutical, environment, and security
industries worldwide.
Chena’s® real-time measurement of water purity is the world's only
single-sensor system capable of detecting many organic, and non-organic
contamination as low as a few parts per million. While other water monitoring
and contamination detection systems are designed to look for specific inorganic
molecules, Chena® takes quite the opposite approach. The sensor unit allows the
operator to set the required definition of purity, and then monitors the water
continuously for deviations from that defined purity - the sensor 'tastes' any
changes as soon as they occur, and reports them instantly in real-time.
"Chena® is available exclusively
through our key partners - the leading private, and public companies, that already provide chemicals,
products, and services to water, food and beverage, paper & pulp, mining and minerals, pharmaceutical, environmental, agricultural, and security
industries. They
understand the specific challenges concerning raw, waste, and potable water, liquid
measuring, quality monitoring, and logistics processes in their industries.
Operators need real-time electrochemical monitoring solutions to maximize their water
quality, increase productivity, minimize waste water, and pollution. Companies are looking for solutions
to specific problems in their liquid processes. Chena® provides a
solution which increases profitability, saves the environment, is easy to use and implement, cost effective, and even
portable," said Minna LeVine, Advantages International LLC, President.
Liqum will launch a new pilot program on August 1,
2007. This program affords a limited number of companies and
operators to test Chena® at a reduced rate for a full year. The complete
customized package includes consulting, hardware, software, installation,
maintenance, real-time monitoring services, an unlimited number of reports,
on-going support, and one-on-one training.
Advantages International LLC, based in Atlanta Georgia, was founded in
1994. Liqum Corporation (www.Liqum.com) based in Jyvaskyla Finland, was founded in 1999. Liqum developed a unique real-time liquid
measuring and monitoring technology called “Chena” which is based on the use of
electro-chemistry. This time-tested technology has proven to be extremely
valuable in improving production efficiencies in bottling, water, food,
agriculture, paper & pulp, mining, pharmaceutical, environment, and security
industries.
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