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Passivation for asset protection
PASSIVATION IS THE key to effective long term asset management.
This session will look at the typical types of HVAC plant water circuits and the processes re- quired during commissioning and beyond to achieve and maintain successful passivation.
This session is for anyone that has ever won- dered why some HVAC plant water circuits suffer the premature failure of a critical asset while oth- ers operate for their expected life without inci- dent?
Hydrochem CEO, Mike Lenton, will present this seminar entitled When the devil is in the water.
Lenton highlights the typical modes of failure of poorly passivated circuits, the common barriers to achieving a successful outcome be- fore concluding with a case study that demonstrates how a more sci- entific and pre-emptive approach provides greater short and long term certainty of a successful outcome.
Lenton joined Hydrochem in
June 2020 following 18 years as the
ager of Hydro Flow, another Victorian-based wa- ter treatment service provider.
Hydrochem CEO, Mike Lenton.
general man-
and Mount
voice in the complex field of water treatment services and system design.
Lenton is well regarded throughout the industry for being passionate about service excel- lence and the delivery of technical solutions. His experience in indus- trial automation and process con- trol (attained through the early part of his career with Honeywell Isa Mines) makes him a respected
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Platform for portable analytics
Research Program. He works on the Senaps plat- form and applies expertise in IoT and software design to solve the industry challenges. He is also the tech lead for the DCH platform.
The second speaker is research group leader at CSIRO, Dr Subbu Sethuvenkatraman.
He is the smart buildings research focus area leader at CSIRO. As part of his current research, he is evaluating ways to use advances in digital technologies to reduce the built environment carbon footprint, evaluating strategies for smart buildings’ grid interaction and concepts for net zero buildings.
Sethuvenkatraman currently oversees the de- velopment of Data Clearing House (DCH) digital platform development activities within CSIRO.
In this role, he actively interacts with CSIRO’s digital researchers /modelers and with a range of external stakeholders to ensure the platform fea- tures meet the user needs.
ACCURATE AND DETAILED building data is needed to properly manage energy use and im- prove building operations and maintenance.
But access to this data is limited by lack of open standards and trusted processes for the linking and sharing of diverse data sets.
Smart Buildings Data Clearing House (DCH) ad- dresses these challenges by enabling curation of data from a wide range of sources, increases the quality and value of data sets by linking them with contextual information, and facilitates innovators/ businesses to develop new smart building services and deploy them across multiple buildings.
DCH currently ingests data from nearly 50 buildings and supports hosting of various appli- cations ranging from demand response optimal control to Measurement and Verification (M&V).
This presentation will provide an overview of the DCH platform, its features and handling of building metadata using standard information schema.
The speakers will show smart building appli- cation portability features of the platform using typical use cases.
Akram Hameed is a senior software engineer at CSIRO’s Data61 in the Cyber-Physical Systems
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