Primary Services

Puckorius & Associates Inc, (P&A), established in 1976 and located in Evergreen, Colorado, is a world-renowned, independent, water management consulting firm specializing in review of water treatment programs, development and monitoring of treatment systems, water system audits, troubleshooting problem areas, and training of personnel. The company sells no water treatment chemicals or equipment; we provide consulting services only. P&A personnel have in-depth knowledge and experience in water treatment systems and treatment programs. The company's comprehensive background includes the auditing and development of chemical treatment programs for the control of scale, fouling, corrosion, and microbiologically caused problems. Additionally, through more than 200 training ("How-to") seminars on cooling water, boiler water, water reuse, waste water, and pre-treatment, P&A has been a leader in technology transfer to public and private sector clients. P&A, in most instances, is able to provide our clients with concepts, ideas, and recommendations that generate cost savings which equal or exceed the consulting fees associated with the services provided.

Brief Description of Services

Puckorius & Associates, Inc. is an independent water treatment consulting firm; we do not sell chemicals. Our consulting services benefit the client and result in cost savings from reduced chemical usage, reduced water usage, reduced waste disposal, and reduced equipment maintenance replacement. P&A specializes in providing consulting services to all water-using industries. We provide complete and detailed advice to industrial, municipal, commercial, and institutional users. P&A works with cooling, boiler, and wastewater, and their systems. Reuse of waste streams and zero discharge via cooling tower and boiler water usage are specialties of the firm. Our technical staff, which includes chemist and chemical engineers, has extensive experience in problem solving, operating procedures, and evaluation techniques. We have experience with the following "types of water:" cooling; closed system-hot and chilled; boiler and boiler feedwater; waste; process; ultrapure; potable; service; fire; recycle/reuse; sea; and environmental.

Our capabilities and services include: specification development; bid evaluation; treatment program development and evaluation; source analysis; system analysis; analytical testing; system trouble-shooting; material selection; corrosion-general studies; management and operator training; reuse water-system design; system audits; conceptual design; material balance; process treatability; analysis of alternative process methods; system start-up, instruction, and trouble-shooting; zero blowdown system design, cooling tower inspections, waste minimization; waste water treatment; energy conservation; legionnaires' disease evaluation; market research studies; and expert witness.

We believe our unique blend of analytical skills, combined with effective communications, enhances our client's ability to make appropriate and timely decisions. The benefit of this approach is the conservation of human resources and expenditures.

P&A's capabilities include:

• Source analysis
  
• Conceptual design
  
• System analysis
  
• Material balance
  
• Analytical testing
  
• Process treatability
  
• System trouble-shooting
  
• Analysis of alternative process methods
  
• Bid evaluation
  
• System start-up, instruction, trouble-shooting
  
• Material selection
  
• Zero blowdown system design
  
• Corrosion, general studies
  
• Blowdown treatability studies
  
• Management and operator training
  
• Energy conservation
  
• Reuse water, system design
  
• Cooling tower inspections
  
• System audits

We frequently work with clients who require us to work closely with their current or potential water treatment suppliers. We assist in evaluating treatment programs and services offered or in use. We help in obtaining the most economically effective programs relative to the system metallurgy and operational characteristics.

We also organize, develop, and present educational and training seminars covering all phases of water treatment, particularly cooling water systems. These seminars are presented throughout the country. Specially designed "in-house" training seminars are offered to individual organizations.

Puckorius & Associates, Inc., 1202 Bergen Parkway, Suite 215, Evergreen, CO 80439. Tel: 800-275-9897; Fax: 303-674-1453.