ABB variable speed drives improve energy efficiency with payback of less than three years at a Severn Trent Water sewage treatment works. Severn Trent Water is saving 15,000 kWh per year after installing two ABB variable speed drives at its Edwinstowe filter bed sewage treatment works in Nottinghamshire. The sewage treatment works includes a stone … Continue reading →
Technological advancements seem to be continuing at a rapid pace. Most are improvements designed to make everyday tasks much quicker and easier. The pandemic had also hastened progress especially in our work lives and there has been a huge shift into having things like training held virtually rather than in person. ABB have been swift … Continue reading →
The rapid development of real-time sensing and monitoring technologies for improving early leakage and water quality anomaly detection are an effective way to address these challenges as ABB’s Clayton Mead describes: There is increasing pressure on water utilities to lower their total cost of ownership and high leakage rates. By combining smart monitoring technology with variable speed drives … Continue reading →
At IDS we are used to supporting Water Companies with variable speed drive technology. We offer: Fleet of 65 hire drives for breakdown cover 24/7 technical advice and breakdown support £400k inverter and spares stock for immediate delivery Servicing Advice on inverter control and selection of new products Why ABB Inverters for Clean Water … Continue reading →
ABB’s Martin Richardson outlines how a pump strategy using the latest variable speed drive technology can help lower energy costs, reduce abstraction demand and improve the environment. Pumping systems are one of the most fundamental technologies that utilities use every day, and yet, in many river abstraction uses, they are not always implemented efficiently. Water … Continue reading →
David Hughes, ABB UK’s Managing Director looks at the powertrain technologies currently available to the water industry and asks if their potential is being fully realised. Finding ways to deliver innovation in the UK water industry has long been a bone of contention between Ofwat and the water companies. With innovation very much a keystone … Continue reading →
Cavitation is generally bad news for dairy producers, and its effects can have a severely negative impact on the performance and lifetime of pump systems. ABB’s Andrew Bould looks at how variable speed drives (VSD) can be used to combat it. The dairy industry relies heavily on pumps to transport raw and processed product from … Continue reading →
David Hughes, Managing Director for ABB in the UK, reflects on the past, present and future of the ubiquitous variable speed drive as new generation of engineers are increasingly becoming aware of its advantages. The Past The variable speed drive (VSD) is now over 50 years old. Its purpose in life, from then to now, … Continue reading →
Sludge Density Pump Control or Reactive Pump Control (RPC) Introduction Sludge is created when a liquid containing solids is settled. Typically, this can be in PSTs (Primary Settling Tanks) or Humus Tanks in sewage treatment works. Alternatively, it can occur in mineral processing plant in clarifiers. The pumps that take the sludge from the bottom … Continue reading →
As the water industry moves towards AMP 7 (asset management plan), among the key challenges facing the sector is ensuring maximum uptime of the installed base of pumps and their motors and drives. ABB‘s Clayton Mead, UK Water Manager – Drives, offers some advice. Whereas previously pumps, motors or drives had a back up that … Continue reading →
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