Municipal Water Success Story

The mission of one of our municipal water customers is to deliver clean reliable drinking water and wastewater services of exceptional quality and value while protecting public health and the safety of the environment.

Many of the water treatment analyzers that are used to measure the total chlorine that kills bacteria and other microbes are in open public areas and unprotected. One of our customer's biggest problems in dealing with the placement of the analyzers is the potential for vandalism and other environmental damage like rain and freezing. To provide accurate readings, these analyzers needed to be protected and climate controlled.

Our Account Manager, Scott Mooney, had met with the customer and suggested working with our Field Engineer, Brian Aplin, to look at what type of a solution we could provide for their situation.

Our Swagelok Field Engineering team, collaboratively working with the customer's engineering team, created drawings to examine concepts and ultimately suggested a heated, locking enclosure using Swagelok regulators and valves and a small industrial thermostatically controlled heater. This would protect the analyzers from the winter freeze damage and from public access allowing the analyzer to measure the chlorine accurately and consistently while protecting the public and the equipment.

Not only did this help our customer, but it also saved the city immeasurable amounts of maintenance hours by eliminating possible freezing along with the cost of purchasing additional analyzers.

Proactively, our Field Engineering team also equipped the panels with options to expand into other chemical measurements in the future.

Working together with our customers, generating ideas, and proofing them with drawings, this enclosed measuring system is like no other, making our custom assemblies truly customizable to each situation.