Efficient Water Treatment and Distribution

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Optimisation, Modelling and Simulation Packages

On the heavily cost-constrained water market, water utilities need to cut their operating costs while rising to the challenges of water quality, sustainable development, and ever more stringent regulations. Energy Optimisation System helps them do just that by optimising their energy use, which can account for up to 30 per cent of operating costs. It supplies plant operators and managers with real-time actionable intelligence that enable them to monitor, measure and manage how and where their wastewater treatment processes use energy.

Its user-friendly dynamic dashboard displays show at a glance, plant-wide pictures of energy consumption that use meaningful, customisable KPIs. They can drill down to individual energy- intensive processes and loads like aeration tanks to identify energy optimisation opportunities and take action.

How Energy Optimisation Systems for Wastewater Treatment Works

Energy Optimisation System for wastewater treatment plants (Fig. 5) encompasses functions that range from energy consumption and emissions monitoring and reporting to performance benchmarking and configurable alarms, and advanced power quality analysis and data securing. Benefits include lower energy costs per m3 of wastewater treated, higher energy efficiency, better quality electricity, better electricity supply contracts, and improved emissions performances.

On the distribution front, without real-time intelligence about operational performance, network status and customer demand, water utilities face the challenge of reacting swiftly to any change in these conditions apart from experiencing the challenge of deteriorating water quality due to aging distribution piping and depleting water sources.

Many have invested significantly in SCADA systems, which allow for partial monitoring of the network, but don’t offer the option of proactively simulating impacts on the distribution network. Most H2O utilities have only 20 per cent of their investment placed in the actual plant. The remaining 80 per cent is placed in the distribution network. And most have little or no idea of what happens to the water once it leaves the waterworks.

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