French Creek Software recently announced the commercial release of a lead (Pb) and copper (Cu) module for its WatSIM chemistry modeling system for potable water.
This system provides municipal water quality chemists and consultants with tools to predict and model many scenarios.
These scenarios include lead and copper solubility throughout a municipal water transport system; lead, copper, and other metal corrosion rates; minimum effective scale and corrosion inhibitor dosages; mineral scale formation; the impact of blending water sources on corrosion and metal solubility; and the impact of chemical adjustment on corrosion, scale, and metal solubility.
The results are presented through a visual chemistry approach, which profiles critical parameters over the entire temperature, pH, and chemistry range encountered in a distribution system. The impact of anti-corrosive treatments on solubility are included in the engine calculations.
The company's system can use system data from a user, corrosion study data, and laboratory results to develop predictive models for lead, copper, galvanized metal, and other metallurgies. An ion association modeling engine is used to model scale, corrosion, and inhibitors.
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