Employees were required 24/7 to monitor a clean water tank pumping station and document approximate usage. With automation, manual monitoring was eliminated and data was standardized.
OpteBiz was entrusted to automate a small area in the clean water tank pumping station on a pilot basis to evaluate the benefits of automation.
The person operating the pumping station manually recorded power consumption in a book daily, & there was no mechanism to monitor low voltage.
A transmitter was installed to monitor water levels automatically and give indications & alarms where the water level is higher or lower than the required standard in the clean water tanks.
The client has seen the benefits of automation in one area of the water treatment plant & is planning to automate the remaining five areas of the water treatment plant & establish a centralised control center for the total plant operations.
Customer’s manually operated water treatment plant has a capacity of 66 million litres a day.
The plant has six sections essentially.
Considering there are better ways to operate the plant today, by going for automaton, The customer wanted to introduce automation and decided to go for a pilot project at one section via clean water tank pumping station.
OpteBiz was entrusted to automate a small area in the clean water tank pumping station on a pilot basis to evaluate the benefits of automation.
Setting up a centralized monitoring station, OpteBiz used a SCADA system with Ignition to deliver their FactoNode and FactoGrid solutions at the clean water tank and automated the process at the clean water tank pumping station.
The clean water tank pumping station is now fully automated without any manual/human intervention. Necessary PLCs, sensors, and equipment have been installed and integrated with the Ignition SCADA for the automation.
Five heavy-duty motorized pumps were operated periodically to pump out water. This scheduling took place manually and required employees to be working 24/7 at the pumping station to switch the motors on and off. The employees were to maintain a daily usage log for each motor to ensure the load was distributed equally among the pumps.
The water level in the tank was measured by an approximation based on the level of the water as seen by the employee, which we assume was not accurate. With this method, the pump would keep running until the operator realized there was no water in the clean water tank or the voltage was low and switched off the motor.
The person operating the pumping station manually recorded power consumption in a book daily, and there was no mechanism to monitor low voltage.
The power meter installed provides reports of daily power consumption and voltage by each motor pump. In case of insufficient voltage, the pumps get switched off automatically, thereby increasing the life of the motors.
A transmitter was installed to monitor water levels automatically and give indications & alarms where the water level is higher or lower than the required standard in the clean water tanks.
The client has seen the benefits of automation in one area of the water treatment plant and is planning to automate the remaining five areas of the water treatment plant and establish a centralised control center for the total plant operations.
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