Mitsubishi Electric and its subsidiary ME-Automation Projects GmbH, will be presenting a range of innovative solutions designed for the water market at this year’s IFAT. They will include energy-saving, energy management and condition monitoring solutions, but the focus of their presence at the trade fair this year is the PMSXpro control system. […]
Changing three 180 kW, fixed-speed re-circulation pumps to variable speed inverter drive control has saved Yorkshire water over £60k pa in energy use. The filter re-circulation pumps at Yorkshire Water’s Esholt Waste water Treatment Works are used to pump final effluent to the filter distribution chamber, diluting the effluent and providing the […]
Installing ABB ACS355 inverter drives to the oil injecting system has saved a UK coal-fired power station over £350k in oil costs. To light the coal-fired boilers, the power station uses 36 oil injecting lances on each of its three boilers. Oil from the lances is blown into the boiler by fans […]
One of the UK’s major producers of ready meals is saving 25 percent a year on its cooling costs by employing a single 55 kW ABB HVAC variable-speed drive (VSD). Saladworks of Leicester supplies 135 different ready-meal products to four of the UK’s major retailers. A major part of its process is […]
In one part of a waste water plant in Germany, three Archimedes pumps are connected to the secondary settlement basin at the sludge recirculation pumping station. They continuously take the biological sludge back into the aeration basins, where the micro-organisms break down dissolved and fine particulate organic pollutants. In the space of about […]