SPAIN : RESTORATION
Continuous remote monitoring of San Fernando wastewater treatment plant
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PROJECT OBJECTIVE
Purposes of Continuous and Remote Monitoring of the San Fernando Wastewater Treatment Plant
In 2000, the EPM Group initiated the Medellín River sanitation program with the start-up of the San Fernando wastewater treatment plant. In 2012, and with the objective of giving continuity to the program and achieving the treatment of 95% of this water, the subsidiary of the EPM group, Aguas Nacionales/ Consorcio de Aguas de Aburrá, builds and starts up the north interceptor and the Bello wastewater treatment plant.
This mega-project allowed wastewater from the municipalities of Medellín and Bello to be transported to this plant where, by means of activated sludge, it receives secondary treatment before being discharged into the Medellín River. By reducing the river's organic load, the dissolved oxygen content will be raised to a minimum level of 5 mg/l, in compliance with the environmental authority's requirements.
There are two main objectives of the system supplied: on the one hand, to ensure the protection of equipment and people, avoiding possible catastrophic failures in the most critical equipment; and on the other hand, to allow continuous and remote supervision of the operation of the equipment, since some equipment is located outside the plant facilities.
Date of execution:
2012
Location:
Xátiva (Valencia)
Sector:
Restoration
Client:
How we made it happen
Technological innovation by Grupo Álava in the continuous and remote supervision of the San Fernando wastewater treatment plant.
As part of the Bello wastewater treatment plant construction project, a vibration monitoring system was foreseen to improve the performance of the main machines.
Bello wastewater treatment plant, a vibration monitoring system was foreseen to improve the performance of the main machines. The scope of this monitoring system included the continuous monitoring of 41 machine trains as well as the supply of portable vibration measurement equipment to perform measurement routes on less critical machinery.
Machinery monitored includes wastewater treatment system inlet pumps, aeration system blowers, primary and secondary sludge pumps, agitators, centrifugal thickening and dewatering pumps, and gas motor generators. Bearing and bearing temperatures are also monitored.
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Service
Technology consulting
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Product
3D Vision
Specim FX10 and FX17 hyperspectral cameras with pushbroom technology enable detailed imaging across a wide spectral range, from ultraviolet to near infrared. The high resolution SWIR Raptor Owl 1280 camera specializes in detection in the shortwave infrared spectrum, providing high quality images in that specific band.
RESULTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Technological Discoveries and Advances in the Continuous and Remote Monitoring of the San Fernando Wastewater Treatment Plant.
All this allowed the implementation of a predictive maintenance system based on
a predictive maintenance system based on the knowledge of the state of the machines through the analysis and diagnosis of vibrations.
The measured variables are sent to the plant's
the plant's distributed control system
for analysis by the operators, who, thanks to the diagnostic tool, hosted on an external server, can make reports and evaluations taking into account the data history of past measurements. The system architecture includes a fiber optic ring network with remote access capabilities.
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