David Brydon
Technical Director @Blackwell Water Consultancy Ltd
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WORK HISTORY
Technical Director @Blackwell Water Consultancy Ltd
Darlington, GB
I run Blackwell Water Consultancy Ltd, a company that specialises in helping businesses to find the right trade effluent treatment and management solutions for their site. We work with businesses of all sizes, ranging from SMEs with a single premises to multi-national companies with complex manufacturing sites.We also provide a range of statistical data analysis and modelling services to clients in the water industry and beyond. These help our clients to solve urgent problems by increasing their understanding of their manufacturing and treatment processes.Our services cover all aspects of water use and effluent disposal, including preliminary design and feasibility studies, financial analysis, helping clients select suppliers and supervising installation and commissioning of new equipment.BWC contracts have included- helping a food processing client to challenge a revised trade effluent consent- designing an optimisation strategy that led to 100% consent compliance for a small sewage works- modelling, operability and statistical analysis of a water treatment plant for a non-UK client- a feasibility study for rainwater harvesting for a major UK organisation- design of an effluent treatment system for a chemical manufacturer- preparing a detailed Best Available Technology (BAT) analysis for a waste management client- completing a hazardous waste assessment for licensed waste operating company- organising and managing site & lab trials- carrying out statistical analysis of wastewater data for a major UK utility company- reviewing the design and performance of a UV disinfection plant- working with rural householders on infrastructure for private water supplies- carrying out effluent audits for a meat processing company- a water efficiency audit and effluent minimisation study at a food processing companyThe use of data analysis is at the centre of everything BWC does and demonstrates the power of this approach in a very wide range of industries.
EDUCATION
The University of Manchester
MSc, Neural network modelling of distillation columns
Newcastle University
Chemical and Process Engineering
The University of Manchester
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neural network pattern recognition for fault detection and diagnosis in process plant
SKILLS
ABOUT DAVID BRYDON
I help businesses to manage trade effluent. This covers all areas of the economy, from all types of manufacturing to commercial premises, sports stadia to academic buildings. BWC offers services ranging from site audits to detailed design of treatment plant.Helping companies to manage trade effluent is what I do and here are some examples- identifying trade effluent savings of £250k per year for a chemical industry client- reducing a food processing client\'s water bills by 36% through simple housekeeping changes- carrying out a detailed rainwater harvesting study for a large UK-located site- reducing a client\'s trade effluent bill by 48% by changing how they operated their factoryIn the last 15 years I\'ve worked on over 140 trade effluent contracts in more than 30 different industries.
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