Technical Innovation Product of the Year

Pump Industry Awards 2011 Inverter Drive Systems (IDS), in partnership with ABB, has won the Technical Innovation of the Year Product award at the Pump Industry Awards 2011 for a patented control system for primary settlement tank sludge pumps. Reactive Pump Control for Sludge Pumps uses a diaphragm pump, a low voltage AC variable-speed drive and a specially designed algorithm to achieve the exact flow control demanded by sludge pumps, cutting pumping time by up to 90…