Improving River Abstraction Efficiency

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 is a heavy and expensive commodity to lift and is often removed using submersible pumps, which need vast amounts of…