Optimize your process

Municipalities can optimize their water and wastewater processes with automation and instrumentation solutions to reduce expenses and control waste. When these systems are optimized for peak performance, they can reduce raw material consumption, improve energy efficiency, and reduce overall costs. The best automation solutions include drives, energy efficient motors, PLCs, pressure sensors, flowmeters, and other measurement products. When municipalities also leverage monitoring systems, they reduce risk and optimize reliability allowing them to integrate operations, asset, and supply chain management.

Although municipal process equipment is a major consumer of electrical energy, municipalities are still required to provide reliable, cost-effective water and wastewater treatment. This creates a critical challenge as water utilities must balance reliability with energy usage. Choosing the right automation technologies can help increase process and system efficiency.

Who you choose matters.

VFDs designed specifically for water

ABB’s ACQ580 VFD enhances performance, simplifies commissioning and operation, optimizes wire-to-water and wire-to-air efficiency while improving flow and reliability in municipal pumping and aeration applications.

The ACQ580 has many pump-specific features:

  • Pump clean dislodges debris from the impeller.
  • Sensorless flow calculation provides accurate flow measurement.
  • Soft pipe fill gradually fills pipes to reduce water-hammer damage.
  • Quick-ramp functionality protects submersible pumps.
  • Dry-run protection prevents the pump from running without water.
  • Embedded PID controllers automate flow, pressure, level, DO, etc.
  • Multi-pump control balances run time for pump operations of up to eight pumps simultaneously.

The VFD‘s innovative software, intuitive hand-off-auto keypad, and menu-driven programming simplify set-up and operation of even the most complex applications. The keypad‘s optional Bluetooth capability provides flexibility and an extra level of safety for commissioning and troubleshooting.

Who you choose matters.

Don’t be afraid to use the drive’s full potential

Installing VFDs is important, but leveraging their full capabilities can significantly improve your processes. ABB provides authorized startup services through our dedicated channel partners to ensure successful commissioning and provide long-term reliability. As part of the startup process, the ACQ580 can be customized for maximum energy savings and reliable operation. The intuitive keypad leverages industry-specific pump terminology and provides a powerful control interface that simplifies set-up, system monitoring, condition diagnostics and operational tuning.

Motors that say “It’s time for service”

Motors are the powerful workhorse of municipal systems. ABB offers a variety of NEMA motors for these applications. Made of cast iron, stainless steel, or aluminum, these robust motors can handle tough environments, while still being easy and flexible to customize.

All ABB motors are designed to provide superior reliability over a long lifetime. With diagnostic tools for preventive/predictive maintenance, you can monitor and manage conditions – either on-site or remotely – to detect issues and be notified about service needs before troublesome failures. For real-time insight into the motor’s condition while it’s running, leverage ABB Ability TM Smart Sensors and measurement tools to achieve additional productivity gains and to avoid breakdowns. ABB drives and soft starters provide additional protection from stress by managing starting currents.

For larger systems, PLCs with embedded water libraries can control up to eight pumps, while also doing conditional monitoring on the pump system.

WaterMaster - the perfect fit for all water industry flow applications

WaterMaster is the ultimate solution for flow measurement and management in the water industry, whether drinking water, wastewater, raw sewage, or final effluent. WaterMaster's performance is guaranteed with on-board verification using the time-proven Verimaster’s advanced diagnostics, which constantly check the health of the flow sensor and electronics, without the need to remove the meter or even stop flow.  Proven in the toughest applications, it’s rugged, maintenance-free design allows the sensor to be buried underground, eliminating the need for expensive meter chambers.  Take advantage of its innovative and versatile features to achieve interoperability within a wide range of asset management systems for reliable flow measurement.

Overall network monitoring

For overall network-wide monitoring and control, ABB’s zenon Operations Data Management is scalable software that combines supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) functions. Through various HMI options, it allows you to control a broad range of systems, from simple discrete booster stations to large process plants, supporting numerous communication protocols into the field, to higher level systems, and into the cloud.

ABB’s NETA-21 IoT gateway also provides remote monitoring of ABB drives via a web browser-based platform, either through direct remote connection or through our cloud service ABB Ability™ Condition Monitoring for Drives.

Tailor your solution for advanced productivity

ABB provides a broad portfolio of automation equipment can be used tailor the processes for your facility. With many of these devices equipped with water-specific functionality, you now have powerful new tools to help you reduce unnecessary costs, while proactively monitoring the system to increase both productivity and reliability. What are you waiting for?

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