Services, Applications and Evaluation Facilities
Kinectrics provides solutions in separation science and technology, water treatment, and low-to-medium level waste processing.
We offer fast, efficient service for numerous applications including: quality conformance resin testing, boiler condensate polishing, and process chemistry optimization using ion exchange resins in the demineralization of boiler feedwater.
Specialized applications are: water softening and residential water treatment, and ultrapure water production for the manufacture of integrated circuits and non-water applications such as air pollution control and solvent recovery.
Kinectrics’ exchange media resin testing and evaluation facilities include expert capabilities for a broad range of services.
Chemical Testing
- Ion exchange capacities by ASTM and other methods
- Carbonate/bicarbonate content (including organically-bound and ionic C-14)
- Ionic composition
- Resin flow testing facilities (kinetics and operating capacity under once-through and recirculation modes for engineering scale-up projections)
- Natural and process-induced fouling
Physical Resin Testing
- Slurriability and separability of mixed bed resins
- Wet particle size analysis
- Crush strength (friability – Chatillon)
- Thermal and oxidation resistance
- Attrition
- Specialized sampling and analysis capabilities for radioactive process resins and waste resins
- Quality assurance and quality control testing of new resins
Additional Resin Testing / Procedures
- Cleaning, defouling, conditioning of new and old resins including use of supercritical fluid based techniques
- Performance evaluation, optimization and testing including resin life for specific applications and conditions
- Characterization of resin leachables and degradation products (including high molecular weight species, organo chlorines, and organo sulphur species)
- Diagnosis of operating problems
Vendor-Independent Consulting
Kinectrics offers vendor-independent consulting services in the field of water and wastewater treatment and management. We provide clients with unbiased expert technical information used to accomplish cost-effective water treatment, and water conservation goals.
Our comprehensive expertise and experience covers:
- Process water
- Cooling water
- Boiler water
- Waste water
- Water reuse
- De-aeration, oxygen removal and evaluation of dissolved oxygen removing materials
- Makeup pretreatment
- Condensate corrosion and treatment
- Start-up and lay-up
- Chemical cleaning
- Cooling water corrosion and microbiologically-influenced corrosion (MIC)
