Ultrapure Water Review Summary

Industrial Water Treatment 1996 Schedule

1. Sep/Oct: The first look at French Creek's new WaterCycle for Windows and how it can assess the potential for scaling and estimate product dosages to minimize the effects of scaling.
2. Nov/Dec: A look at Track 2 from LXF and how it can be used to monitor and control water chemistry in cooling water and boiler applications.

Ultrapure Water 1997 Schedule

1. Jan: An overview of Water System Detective 1.7 from Westwind Software and how it can be used to investigate the performance of water-treatment systems.
2. Feb: An investigation of Process Hazard Analysis techniques and how they can be applied to water systems using PHA-Pro 3.0 from Dyadem International.
3. Apr: With all this hype about the Internet, what do you need to get on it and what will you be able to do
4. Sep: Now that you are on the Internet, how do you access water-related information.
5. Oct: IEX Tools from Focus Software provides the wherewithall to do the various calculations needed to size ion-exchange systems.

Ultrapure Water 1998 Schedule

1. Jan: Everything you ever wanted to know about gamma spectrometry is combined into this single issue. Included are EG&G's Nuclide Navigator to find all the data you might need about various nuclides, Aptec's OSQ/Pro for one-finger analyses of gamma spectra and Synth to create spectra from the known gamma energies and a description of the detector.
2. Feb: How efficient is your plant? GPCalcs is a package that can be used to assess the efficiency of boilers, turbines, condensers and other components.
3. April: Is your water-treatment spreadsheet going to be used by others? Taking your Spreadsheet to the Next Stage with Baler converts it into a stand-alone package that can run any system without requiring the user to have any spreadsheet installed.
4. May/June: WexTech's Doc-to-Help simplifies Preparing more HelpFul Operating Manuals. This package makes it possible to prepare both hard copy and electronic versions at the same time.
5. September: We got the cover this month, but you'll have to wait until December for the review



6. October: Give your Manual Preparation a Jump Start with LXF's Water Treatment Handbook On-Disk.
7. November: Who says you can't get something for nothing? This month we look at some of those free packages that are readily available from the Internet.
8. December: You saw the cover in September. Now look at French Creek's hydro-RO and see how it can assess the potential for scaling in your RO membranes. You can also estimate the feed rates for acid and various antiscalants.

Ultrapure Water 1999 Schedule

1. January: What do you do with all your old graphs? How ubout ungraphing the old to make the new?
2. February: An Ounce of Protection... looks at ways to prevent or fix those glitches and crashes with Symantec's Norton Utilities version 3.
3. March: All you need to know about ion exchange looks at Sybron's on line ion-exchange manual. You can also get your own CD-ROM version from Sybron's Web Site.
4. April: Let your computer teach you about RO with Wes Byrne's Encyclopedia of Water Treatment on CD-ROM. Copies are now available through Tall Oaks.
5. May/June: Aren't we supposed to supply the brains? takes an interesting looks at the ways we computerize our data. Do we expect the computer to do everything or do we have a role in this process?
6. October: There's a lot more you can do with your data than simply file it. LXF now have a Windows 9x version of their familiar Track 2 program. Please note that this one took some time to get into print and that the beta-testing phase that was discussed is history. This is a finished product.
7. November: Here's a chance to get some of that experience that George Crits has picked up over the years. He's putting it all on floppies that almost any word processor can read.

Ultrapure Water 2000 Schedule

1. February: Can my computer design a water-treatment plant? Glegg came out with an impressive CD-ROM that's just crammed with data and is accompanied with some fantastic graphics.
2. July/Aug: Let's make better water, not more paper. How do you get your reports, designs or manuals to other people over the internet? Adobe Acrobat provides an almost universal route, but there are some tricks with technical text.
3. September: To upgrade or not to upgrade: that is the question: This month looks at some interesting and economical ways to upgrade computer sytems in the field.
4. November: Keeping tabs on your RO system with MASAR system data monitoring software.

Ultrapure Water 2001 Schedule

1. March: Essentially all our water analysis procedures come from one source, Standard Methods for the Analysis of Water and Wastewater. It's now out on CD-ROM and we gave it a workout.
2. April: Some very simple tests performed on your computer can be used to distingiush between honest and falsified data.



3. July/Aug: Believe it or not, you can purchase a piece of computerized lab equipment for $100. The Intel QX3 Microscope was really designed as a kids toy, but it can do a credible job with ion-exchange resin as can be seen by the examples above comparing a new mixed-bed resin with one that experienced cracking due to repeated freezing and thawing cycles.
4. October: Over the years, we seem to have lost the ability to print some of those special charcters we need to describe water-treatment and other chenical processes. Here are some ideas to get them back.
5. November: Many of us have more than one computer. Where do you put them all. Avocent offers a KVM switchbox that provides a simple solution to saving space by allowing multiple computers to share the same keyboard, video and mouse.

Ultrapure Water 2002 Schedule

1. April: Getting your E-mail on the road Forget about all the electronic toys. What does it take to get a real notebook working with a cellphone. Ositech provides a simple piece of equipment that lets you read your e-mail on the go.
2. December: Preparing First Class Technical Text Here are some ideas that enable you to put those equations and resin structures into your water-treatment proposal or manual.

Ultrapure Water 2003 Schedule

1. coming: Some tips for our older readers to work better with their computers.
2. coming: Thermodynamic Functions on Tap A simple spreadsheet enables to to take your boiler data and do a mass balance to determine just what's going down that blowdown line? Now you can expand that spreadsheet to incorporate a set of steamstables with an add-in from ChemicaLogic to see how much energy is going down the drain with that blowdown. Now you can justify upgrading your water-treatment plant.
3. coming: It's time to have a look at some ion-exchange software.

This page was last updated 2002-Dec-04