PMS motors deliver cost-effective and greener wastewater treatment
The treatment of water and wastewater is an essential task to protect water resources and reduce our impact on the environment. However, the energy consumed in carrying out such treatment processes also have an impact on the environment; not to mention an impact on the wallet as energy prices continue to rise, as Mark Venables discovers
Pulsar ultrasonics are no slouch to sludge
Wessex Water is reporting success with seven new sludge blanket monitors, from Pulsar Process Measurement, at its Christchurch sewage treatment works.
Pump prediction
Modern non-invasive motor condition monitoring equipment is proving its worth at Wessex Water. Brian Tinham talks to operational services manager Dave Durkin
Pumping challenge
Engineering invariably involves a balancing act - mostly between, on the one hand, keeping within budget, while, on the other, developing robust, dependable solutions that meet parameters, such as design life and risk mitigation.
Lay waste to poor treatment
There are many ways to clean up performance of water and effluent treatment units in industrial plants. Steed Webzell takes a look at some of them
Testing the waters
No one likes being overburdened with regulations, and plant engineers are no exception - fact. However, in a world forced into a rather late, reactionary effort to clean up its act, pollution in the waste water and effluent sector was always going to be fair game, and we have had to adjust to living in a tightly regulated climate where awareness is all.
Monitor this situation
Yorkshire Water (YW) has 4.7 million customers - a lot of people to let down, if a piece of equipment fails. OFWAT ranks YW as 'the most capital-efficient company'. At YW, therefore, monitoring of the equipment that is used so extensively, and supplying so many people, needs to be taken seriously.
Liquid assets
Water and waste treatment plants are among the oldest around anywhere, but don't imagine they're bereft of developments. Brian Tinham reports
ECS renews sluice automation equipment for Environment Agency
As the Environment Agency (EA) continues its programme to upgrade water control structures on the River Lee, it contracted ECS Engineering Services to replace the actuators and gearboxes on the sluice gates at Rammey Marsh.
Comment: Monster of the deep
A ‘monster’ fatberg, longer than six double-decker buses, has been found in Devon. South West Water says it’s the largest mass of oil, grease and wet wipes discovered in its service history.