tank level control Articles
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Dale City fire department case study
Objective: To completely eliminate municipal water usage for irrigation and attain LEED certification at the Dale City, Virginia Volunteer Fire Department's new Station 10 facility. Site Specifications & Known Requirements: Harvested water usage to be 100% irrigation. Maximum irrigation cycle: 3600 gallons Tank location: Under turf in planted area Desired tank size: 11,000 gallons ...
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Septic tank additive impacts on microbial populations
Environmental health specialists, other onsite wastewater professionals, scientists, and homeowners have questioned the effectiveness of septic tank additives. This paper describes an independent, third-party, field scale, research study of the effects of three liquid bacterial septic tank additives and a control (no additive) on septic tank microbial populations. Microbial populations were ...
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Water Tank - Case study
Topics: Potable, ice buildup, stratification/water age, short-circuiting, chlorine Overview: This tank is an elevated single pedestal, welded steel pedisphere. The height of this tank is 110 ft. and diameter is 30 ft. This tank has a capacity of 100,000 gallons. This system meets the potable needs of this community of approximately 789 residents. The water comes from two groundwater wells, ...
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Singer valve improves aussie water supply - Case Study
Their Challenge South East Water Ltd., one of Melbourne, Australia’s three water retailers, depends upon Singer Valve for a variety of pressure reducing and altitude control valves. When the valve at the Knox Reservoir water storage tank wore out and created too much noise, South East Water asked Singer to help. Our Solution To minimize pipe pressure and to avoid an overflowing tank, ...
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Power Plant Improves Operating Efficiency with Culligan Matrix Solutions
Challenge A large chemical manufacture was challenged with boiler tube failures in its power plant, resulting in costly repairs and down time. The boiler tube failures were a result of the incoming water quality to the power plant. Until recently, the boiler make-up water was treated with a combination of carbon media filtration and softening. As a result less than 50% of condensate was returned ...
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Case Study: Precision Machine Shop Eliminates Sewer Discharge
Samsco Water Evaporator enables both cost reduction and elimination of sewer discharge. TEC, Inc. (Rockville, MD), providers of precision sheet metal fabrication and precision machining, for more than thirty years, has partnered with many well-known technology companies to meet their need for superior quality, precision metal products. Their offerings range from simple metal components to ...
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Culligan application brief food & beverage - a sustainable approach from Culligan Matrix Solutions
Challenge A major beverage plant was looking to reduce the impact of its operations on the environment while meeting the water treatment challenges at its facility. The sustainability goals of the facility included reducing water usage ond energy costs associated with its operations. Until recently, the facility was using city water in its utility process. The company was looking to use its own ...
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Water Bottling Plant Chooses Greyline for Level Control - Case Study
Culligan were able to double up level monitoring of two tanks with one instrument because pairs of identical-sized tanks were interconnected with a 2” pipe near their base. The Greyline SLT32 was calibrated to display the combined volume of both tanks. This function worked with a two vertical tanks as well as a pair of horizontal round tanks where the SLT32’s HRT round tank volume ...
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Avondale Foods effluent treatment - Case Study
Introduction Avondale Foods (Craigavon) Ltd. is one of the UK's leading manufacturers and suppliers of coleslaw, wet salads, side salads, vegetable accompaniments, soups, sauces and mayonnaise to retail and foodservice customers throughout Britain and Ireland. The company has a team of over 380 people working in its state-of-the-art facility, with all products being manufactured on the same site ...
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How to Stop Wastewater Problems at the Plant Level
Facility managers often face the daily challenge of pushing aging wastewater treatment equipment to its limits. In many cases, they’re dealing with a mature infrastructure, operating decades-old equipment nearing the end of its useful life. At the same time, they struggle to stay on top of ever-changing government regulations and technology that grows increasingly complex. To stay ahead of ...
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WIRELESS NETWORK PROVIDES MONITORING AND CONTROL OF SENSORS, PUMPS AND OTHER DEVICES AT UP TO 56 REMOTE LOCATIONS
WIRELESS NETWORK PROVIDES MONITORING AND CONTROL OF SENSORS, PUMPS AND OTHER DEVICES AT UP TO 56 REMOTE LOCATIONS DX80from Banner Engineering replaces costly wiring in wide area installations A scalable wireless network that can monitor and control I/O functions or provide serial communication at up to 56 locations is available from Banner Engineering. The SureCross DX80 product line replaces ...
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Fixed vs. Moving Bed Systems: Media Retention and Headloss
Submerged fixed-film media is utilized within aeration basins to optimize biological treatment and increase capacity. Therefore, proper design and installation of the equipment used to keep the media in the aeration basin and prevent it from passing downstream is critical to system function. Physical Restraint of Submerged Media Moving bed systems typically use submerged stainless steel ...
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GS Series Tank Mixing, Short-Circuiting, Stratification, Chlorine Residuals, Ice Mitigation (ID195) - Case Study
Topics: Potable, ice buildup, stratification/water age, short-circuiting, chlorine Overview: This tank is an elevated single pedestal, welded steel pedisphere. The height of this tank is 110 ft. and diameter is 30 ft. This tank has a capacity of 100,000 gallons. This system meets the potable needs of this community of approximately 789 residents. The water comes from two groundwater wells, each ...
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Reduce Emissions and Odors with Shand & Jurs’ Expanda-Seal
With reducing emissions having an increased importance, Shand & Jurs offers Expanda-Seal™ technology. Expanda-Seal™ is a patented seal on pressure relief devices that will significantly reduce emissions and odors in every process environment imaginable while also saving valuable product. While industry standards have a tested leakage rate of 1 SCFH at 90% of set point, Shand ...
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Hygienic / Sanitary Level Measurement for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Pharmaceutical manufactures require accurate and reliable monitoring of level, mass or volume inside storage and process tanks to operate efficiently, avoiding downtime and production losses. ABM’s sanitary, non-contact level sensors and non-invasive level switch meet the demands for hygienic pharmaceutical applications.Inventory Management: Liquids, powders and granular materials level in ...
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Valuing Global Valves
Control valve solves flow control & pressure challenges Donnacona, Quebec, Canada, is an industrial town just west of Quebec City. The town’s water treatment plant was built in 1969 and has since undergone three major retrofits: new high-pressure pumps and an electrical upgrade in 1995; a filter bottoms change in 2000; and a river water intake upgrade in 2005. The plant includes ...
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Monitoring level of wine vats
Solid’s MonoScan takes control in Suntime Winery, China, monitoring the wine level in over 60 wine tanks. Suntime Wine Co. in Manasi city is today amongst the top 10 list of manufacturers of red wine in China. Suntime Winery produces red and white wine for both the local Chinese market and the international market. The winery aims for best performance, investing a great deal of time, care and ...
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Skyharvester University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee residence hall case study
Objective: To reduce municipal water usage for irrigation at a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Residence Hall by as close to 100% as possible. Site Specifications & Known Requirements: Water usage is 100% irrigation. Collection location: Rooftop Rooftop square footage: 21,000 sq ft A 1" rain event would yield 11,000 gallons or 4 irrigation cycles or 1 standard week of irrigation ...
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Potable tank mixing & THM removal - Case study
Topics: potable, THM removal, TTHM, stratification/water age, chlorine Overview: This location consists of three potable water tanks serving the potable water needs of a city. These three tanks, Tanks 100, 110 & 120, are steel ground storage tanks with an average capacity of 2.4 MG, average tank height of 24 ft. and an average diameter of 134 ft. The average flow rate is 355,000 gpd ...
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Wastewater Level Measurement Techniques
Level monitoring and control is a fundamental requirement in any wastewater treatment process. You will find level instrumentation installed at even the simplest treatment plants for pump control, chemical storage tanks and process level controls or alarms. Operators have only limited or emergency control over treatment plant influent, so level controls and instrumentation play an important role ...
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