Summary
- Profile Type
- Business Offer
- POD Reference
- BOGB20241002030
- Term of Validity
- 29 October 2024 - 29 October 2025
- Company's Country
- United Kingdom
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
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This UK based established company provides expert research-based solutions to reduce real water losses, thereby reducing carbon emissions from treatment and supply of drinking water and contributing to water resource management. Solutions include software and online educational technical training.
They are looking to establish commercial agreements with water utilities and consulting organisations overseas. - Full Description
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This UK business was established in 2010 with the aim of researching international leakage management topics using good quality data from domestic and international sources. The company’s core objective is to develop improved practical reliable methods of analysis and prediction relating to aspects of non-revenue-water which were poorly understood or being mis-applied.
Under the theme ‘understand your losses’, the objective has been to develop improved practical and reliable methods of analysis and prediction relating to aspects which were poorly understood or being mis-applied.
The company has concentrated their activities in three key areas – understanding more about the relationships between pressure and leakflow rates and mains and services bursts, promoting the use of more meaningful Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for non-revenue-water and leakage, and actively supporting and contributing to their own website of relevant resources for the sector.
The company specialises in the field of water loss management and focuses on providing expert analysis, research, and solutions to help utilities and organisations to reduce water loss, improve water efficiency, and enhance overall water resource management. Through their training programme and software, they address key areas such as leakage control. They provide expertise in detecting, analysing, and controlling water leakage in distribution systems.
They also conduct comprehensive water loss audits in order to identify the extent and sources of water losses within a utility's system.
The business offers a variety of services:
-Software:
UARL with SCF to calculate customised maximum recoverable leakage volume for any size of system operating at any pressure. UARL with SCF is currently used for water loss target setting in utilities in more than 12 countries. It is a Performance Indicator recognised in the water loss ISO Standard as well as by international water loss associations (IWA, AWWA) and is incorporated into the New Zealand Water Loss Guidelines.
N1 Triage quickly identifies and prioritises the zones and DMAs which need an N1 test to establish the relationship between N1 and average zone pressure.
N1 Calc then calculates a value of N1 and the variable relationship between N1 and average pressure for a specific zone from an N1 test. Utilities will use this to accurately model water losses across a range of pressures without the need to repeat the N1 Test if the pressure changes significantly.
A 2023 UK pilot using N1 Triage, N1 Calc and UARL with SCF reduced water loss by 160,000 m3 per year and reduced carbon emissions by more than 100 tons.
-Training and Capacity Building: The company also offers online training programs for utility staff and other stakeholders to improve their understanding of the theory and concepts of water losses. The courses are separated into Basic level courses, suitable for new water loss analysts and Intermediate level courses, suitable for more experienced water loss practitioners.
They have also a separate educational website with free access to an online library, where relevant articles, presentations, new research, new developments in the field of water loss are published. The website averages 7000 users a year in over 150 countries.
In the last 5 years, the company has worked with Water Utilities in Canada, USA, Portugal, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Belgium, Namibia and Australia, providing software and training services.
The business is looking for commercial agreements with European partners to help water utilities of all sizes reduce their water loss volumes by utilising company software a - Advantages and Innovations
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There are no known alternative solutions to UARL with SCF on the market. The original UARL equation from 1999 which is widely known and free to use, was designed for whole systems of more than 5000 service connections operating at mid-range pressure (45-60m). Over the past 20 years, customers have sought to apply this equation to systems, zones or DMAs outside these parameters, resulting in under-estimation or over-estimation of UARL volumes. UARL with SCF software solves this problem. There are no known competitive solutions on the market to UARL with SCF.
There are no known competitive solutions to N1 Calc on the market to calculate the variable N1:average pressure relationship, and we are not aware of any in development. Nearest alternative solutions which use fixed values of N1 for pressure management modelling exist, but these will over- or under-estimate water loss reductions.
Large utilities often have hundreds or even thousands of zones. N1 Triage generates a prioritised list of zones where N1 tests are recommended, and where they are not beneficial. This saves utilities time and money. There are no known competitive solutions to N1 Triage on the market.
Our software is suitable for all water utilities of any size in any region of the world where average pressure can be measured. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 13: Climate Action
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
- Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- IPR status
- No IPR applied
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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They are looking for Utility customers and consultants to trial and use our software under the following arrangements: -
- Proof of Concept programmes – they work with the partner to establish suitable water distribution zones or district metered areas to trial software. These are carried out usually free of charge for small numbers of calculations. The results are provided along with analysis and recommendation reports.
- Whole system programmes – They work with partners to understand the hierarchy of zones and district metered areas within their network. They then use our software to show at each level of the hierarchy the maximum volume of recoverable leakage, based on UARL with SCF calculations, where to target N1 tests, using N1 Triage, and then calculate the variable N1:Average Zone Pressure relationship for those target zones using N1 Calc.
- Online training courses can be purchased with or without proof of concept or whole system software programmes.
Partners would need to work collaboratively with WLR&A Ltd in order to provide the inputs for software calculation and other information about the water distribution network as may be requested.
Partners could be either Utility customers of any size or alternatively commercial organisations who specialise in providing water loss consultancy to Utilities - Type and Size of Partner
- SME <=10
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 10004002 - Municipal Water Treatment
- 10004008 - Water Resources Management
- 10004004 - Drinking Water
- 10004003 - Wastewater Recycling
- 10004001 - Industrial Water Treatment
- Market keywords
- 06010003 - Energy for Industry
- 06010001 - Energy for private/domestic housing
- 06010002 - Energy for the community/public sector
- Targeted countries
- All countries