Water Treatment Program Audit & Optimisation
An independent, line-by-line review of your cooling, boiler, and process water programs — testing whether the chemistry, dosing, and monitoring you are paying for actually match the risk in your systems. We are not selling a replacement program; we are telling you what the current one is really achieving, where it is failing, and what it should cost.
Request a program auditAuditing the Program, Not Selling One
Most industrial water programs were designed years ago against a water source, throughput, or metallurgy that has since changed — a new makeup source, a cooling tower re-rate, a switch to reclaimed water, or simply chemical suppliers that have rotated three times without anyone re-validating dosing logic. A program audit starts from first principles: we reconstruct the actual mass balance across the cooling tower or boiler system — makeup rate, blowdown rate, drift and evaporation losses, and cycles of concentration — and compare it against what the treatment program assumes. Cycles of concentration is usually the single biggest lever operators leave on the table: running two or three cycles below what the makeup chemistry and metallurgy can safely support wastes water, wastes blowdown-driven chemical cost, and lowers the achievable water-cost-per-1,000-gallons benchmark without anyone noticing, because nothing visibly fails.
We then interrogate the chemical program itself: is the scale inhibitor dosed to the actual calcium/alkalinity/silica load or to a generic setpoint; is the corrosion inhibitor residual actually verified by titration or ICP rather than assumed from a pump stroke rate; is biocide selection and slug/feed timing matched to the real biofilm and Legionella risk, or is it running on a fixed calendar regardless of bioburden. Control-loop integrity is checked next — conductivity controllers, ORP/chlorine analysers, and corrosion coupons or online corrosion probes are only useful if they are calibrated, correctly located, and actually reviewed by someone empowered to act on an excursion. A large share of "chemical program failures" we are called in to investigate are not chemistry failures at all — they are dead sensors, uncalibrated meters, or alarms nobody was watching.
Finally, we benchmark cost and performance against defensible external metrics — real cost-per-1,000-gallons treated, chemical spend as a fraction of total water cost, blowdown frequency versus theoretical optimum, and vendor-reported dosing versus independently verified dosing. Every audit finishes with a written scorecard: what is working, what is not, what it is costing you in wasted water, wasted chemical, or corrosion/scaling risk, and a prioritised, sequenced remediation plan — not a chemical-supplier proposal.
When an Audit Pays for Itself
Vendor Performance Disputes
Independent verification of contracted dosing, service frequency, and KPI reporting when results on the ground do not match the vendor's monthly report.
Rising Water & Chemical Cost
Cooling and boiler cost-per-unit creeping up year over year with no corresponding change in throughput or water quality — usually a cycles-of-concentration or dosing-drift problem.
Post-Acquisition Due Diligence
New ownership inheriting legacy water programs of unknown quality across multiple sites, needing a fast, comparable technical baseline before committing capital.
Source Water or Throughput Change
A switch in makeup source, a debottlenecking project, or a tower/boiler re-rate that has outpaced the original program design basis.
Program Audit Work Around the World
United States
Multi-site cooling and boiler program benchmarking across varied state permit regimes and water sources.
Texas & Gulf Coast
Refining and petrochemical program audits against TPDES limits and hard, silica-rich Gulf Coast makeup water.
Saudi Arabia
Program review for Jubail, Yanbu, and Ras Al-Khair complexes against RCER discharge and reuse requirements.
United Arab Emirates
District cooling and industrial program audits against DoE and EAD trade-effluent and discharge rules.
India
Cooling and boiler program benchmarking against CPCB effluent standards and monsoon-driven source variability.
Questions Operators Ask Us
Do you replace our existing chemical vendor?
No. We do not sell chemicals or represent any supplier. An audit produces an independent findings report and remediation plan that you can act on directly, hand to your incumbent vendor, or use to run a competitive RFP.
How long does a typical program audit take?
A single-site cooling or boiler audit is usually a multi-day site engagement plus data review, with a written scorecard delivered within a few weeks. Multi-site or portfolio audits are scoped and sequenced site by site.
What does the audit actually deliver?
A mass-balance reconstruction of your system, verified dosing and control-loop integrity findings, a cost-per-1,000-gallons benchmark, and a prioritised, vendor-neutral remediation plan — not a proposal to switch chemical suppliers.
Get an Independent Read on Your Water Program
Tell us about your cooling, boiler, or process water systems and we will scope a program audit built around your actual risk — not a chemical sales pitch.
Request a program audit