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This module teaches strategies to improve water efficiency through proper equipment use, eliminating single-pass cooling, and reducing high purity water waste.
Course overview:
This module covers three key areas:
- Understanding Water Impact: Importance of water globally, water as finite resource, and growing costs
- Laboratory Water Systems: Water intensity, contaminants, purification types, equipment drivers, and consumption patterns
- Conservation Strategies: Purified water selection, replacing single-pass cooling, and equipment optimization lessons
Through this module, you’ll learn to identify water waste sources, implement conservation strategies, optimize equipment efficiency, conduct water audits, and understand stakeholder engagement in water initiatives.
Key learning outcomes:
- Understand global water scarcity and laboratory water consumption impacts
- Identify types of purified water and appropriate applications
- Recognize drivers of high water consumption in laboratory equipment
- Implement strategies to replace single-pass cooling systems
- Optimize autoclave and glasswasher water efficiency
- Conduct water audits and engage stakeholders in conservation initiatives
Introduction
- The Importance of Water in the World
- Water as a Finite Resource
- The Growing Cost of Water
- (1 Quiz)
Water in the laboratory
- Water Intensity of Labs
- Water Contaminants
- Types of Purified Water
- Water Type Used in Lab Experiments and Equipment
- Drivers of High Water Consumption by Labs
- Autoclaves
- Other Lab Equipment
- (1 Quiz)
Strategies for managing water
- Selection of Purified Water
- Replacing Single-Pass Cooling
- Lessons from Replacing Single-Pass Cooling
- Washer Lessons
- (1 Quiz)
Bringing it all together
- Stakeholders in Water Initiatives
- Water Audit
- Training, Education, and Engagement
- (1 Quiz)
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