Pump Centre - Project of the Year 2019.
Smart Pumping Control and Data on Sewage Pumping Stations
Project Team: Lorenzo Pompa (Anglian Water), Matt Westgate (Vega Controls), Andy Smith (Sulzer) and Dan Banks (ABB)
To meet the challenges of AMP6 and get ready for those of AMP7, we’ve embarked on a multi-million pound digital transformation programme to optimise our water recycling networks. This includes the deployment of smart instrumentation and enhanced automation & control capabilities which will reduce operational expenditure, improve customer service and enhance resilience. Whilst there were existing technologies available we found that many had installation limitations when deploying on existing operational assets.
In light of this, we challenged our suppliers with providing an affordable smart solution which could be deployed and retrospectively installed across a wide range of sewage pumping station types and sizes. The objectives were to highlight and take appropriate remedial action on assets performing outside of their design before they failed impacting customers or the environmental thereby reducing the reliance on manual interventions. We concluded the minimum requirements were flow measurements and enhanced control functionality in addition to the existing installed assets, monitoring and control systems.
In conjunction with three suppliers a solution was developed such that we were able to measure flow via level and pressure change with the improved data able to give us a measurement of pump performance.
