Planning a new high-purity water system
Partner with clients to define water-quality, capacity, distribution, monitoring, and operating requirements so teams can make informed decisions.
High-Purity Water
High-purity water expertise for critical projects and operating systems
Clear Water Consulting works with all stakeholder groups on new systems, expansions, qualification, troubleshooting, and system optimization.
Better decisions across the life of your high-purity water system
Clear Water Consulting helps organizations plan new systems, evaluate existing ones, optimize performance, support qualification, and make informed decisions about equipment, capacity, controls, monitoring, and operation.
Brian’s experience across engineering, equipment, system design, and operations brings an independent perspective whether you are starting from scratch, expanding, troubleshooting, or optimizing a system already in service.
When to call Brian
Support for the life cycle of a water-purification system
Brian can help before equipment is selected; during installation, startup, and qualification; or after an existing system has been in operation.
Expanding a facility or increasing system demand
Review demand, capacity, distribution, equipment, controls, and operating requirements, then identify gaps before a planned expansion or capacity upgrade.
Preparing or updating commissioning and qualification documentation
Connect commissioning, qualification, validation, SOPs, maintenance activities, and operator readiness to the intended use.
Addressing water-quality, capacity, control, or reliability issues
Trace recurring water-quality, capacity, control, sanitization, or reliability issues back to their likely cause and define the corrective work.
Responding to audit observations
Analyze internal or external gaps and provide justification for appropriate corrective actions.
Across the system lifecycle
High-purity water support
Clear Water Consulting can develop user requirements, provide equipment and vendor evaluation, review designs, support installation, commissioning, and qualification, develop monitoring strategies, troubleshoot issues, and help optimize ongoing operation.
Planning, project review, qualification, and optimization
Brian can address a specific technical question or remain involved through multiple project stages.
- New system planning and design
- Technical recommendations and performance review
- Equipment and vendor evaluation
- Commissioning and qualification support
- IQ / OQ / PQ / SOP documentation support
- Monitoring and operational issue identification
- Troubleshooting complex water-quality issues
- Audit observations, gap analysis, and corrective actions
Plan
Define water quality, demand, capacity, distribution, monitoring, operating needs, and project requirements before major decisions are fixed.
Deliver
Review vendor submittals, equipment choices, controls, specifications, and project decisions as the system takes shape.
Prove
Support commissioning, qualification, validation, documentation, and training needed to demonstrate that the system works as intended.
Improve
Identify operational issues, ensure robust performance, and minimize operating costs.
How Brian approaches a problem
Solve the cause, not just the symptom
A point-of-use water-quality issue usually begins somewhere else entirely. Pretreatment, purification, storage, distribution, controls, monitoring, maintenance, operating practices, and documentation can all influence the result.
A Systems Thinking approach traces those relationships, identifies causal loops, and evaluates the consequences of a proposed change before recommending corrective action.
Utilize Systems Thinking to trace the evidence to the root cause Identify causal loops and interactions between and across system components
High-purity water training
High-purity water training for facilities, engineering, quality, and operational teams
Brian provides technical training on water-purification fundamentals and system-specific topics for professionals responsible for high-purity water systems.
Ask About High-Purity Water TrainingTechnical publications
Recent high-purity water publications
Brian regularly contributes to technical industry publications.
ISPE Good Practice Guide: Sampling of Pharmaceutical Water, Steam, and Process Gas Systems, 2nd Edition
Guide co-leader, co-wrote new chapter on Risk, authored Appendix on qualifying instrumentation for real time release for chemical attributes
ASPE Plumbing Engineering Design Handbook, Volume 2: Plumbing Systems
Provided technical updates to Chapter on Water Treatment, Conditioning, and Purification
ISPE Good Practice Guide: Ozone Use in Pharmaceutical Water Systems
Guide co-leader, lead author on Chapter covering the chemistry of ozone
ASPE Plumbing Engineering Design Handbook, Volume 4: Plumbing Components and Systems
Provided major technical revision to Chapter on Water Treatment
ISPE Good Practice Guide: Membrane Based Water for Injection Systems
Contributed to several chapters, Lead author for Chapter on the operation and maintenance
High-purity water support
Discuss your project or operational issue with Clear Water Consulting.
Whether you are planning a system, evaluating an expansion, preparing for qualification, or resolving an operational issue, Brian can help.