The Viseu Sul WWTP in Portugal’s Viseu County is believed to be the first in the country to adopt advanced membrane filtration (MBR) wastewater treatment technology. The highly automated treatment facility, serves a population of 90,000.

A distributed control system installed recently at a major water treatment facility in Romania consists of PLCs, industrial Ethernet switches, HMI, motor drives and around 1400 I/O points from Delta, which are helping to provide drinking water and wastewater treatment plant automation for a population of around 30,000 people.

The Lake Constance Water Supply Association provides a reliable supply of drinking water to four million inhabitants by taking water from Lake Constance in Germany. The drinking water is produced at Sipplinger Berg and then transported via a pipeline network 1700 km long to the 181 members of the association.

The new SIPOS SEVEN electric actuator has been specified for use in the ultra-supercritical (USC) coal-fired power plant under construction in Opole, south-west Poland. 

E.ON has guaranteed the future viability of its Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station by installing a new selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emission control facility to reduce emissions. Driving the SCR process, which uses ammonia to neutralise nitrogen oxide (NOx) in exhaust gases, are eight WEG 4300kW MGF710 motors, equipped with variable speed drives (VSDs).

Yokogawa France S.A.S. has won an order from VINCI Environment UK to supply control systems and safety instrumented systems for a waste-to-energy facility for SITA Cornwall in the UK.

A new water treatment works at the Dee Valley Water (DVW) Llwyn Onn site in North Wales is being controlled from inlet to outlet with a redundant modular PLC.

Compact electric actuators have offered energy cost savings for a water treatment plant, compared to the previously used pneumatic technology.

A dual contained pipework system, Durapipe Guardian, has been installed as part of a refurbishment project at Rivington Water Treatment Works.

By fitting VACON 100 FLOW ac variable speed drives (VSDs) to the three main inlet pumps at Newbury sewage treatment works (STW), Varicon (3D) Drives has made it possible for Thames Water to achieve energy savings, complemented by significant reductions in downtime. The energy savings alone will cover the cost of the VSDs and their installation within two years.

The installation of a continuous Total Organic Carbon (TOC) monitor to police the front end of a drink manufacturers wastewater treatment plant has enabled tighter control of its treatment process.

Southern Water's largest ever capital project includes a new wastewater treatment works (WWTW) and sludge recycling centre, two pumping stations, 11km of sewer tunnel and a 2.5km long sea outfall. The newly completed works is able to treat 95 million litres of wastewater generated each day in the area.

Key requirements for a custom control system developed and supplied by Ralspeed for the UK’s largest slurry tank, included simplicity and reliability.

Smart Wireless transmitters have provided increased visibility into the process, support predictive maintenance and provide tank overspill protection at a biomass power plant in Italy, owned by Enomondo S.r.l.

Metso has been awarded a repeat order from the CNIM group for the automation of another greenfield Waste to Energy plant in the UK.

The centrepiece of a new network management centre of a Russian energy distribution network company is a display wall from Mitsubishi Electric.

Water treatment and distribution company, SEMEA, has achieved a return on its investment over 14 months by replacing a pumping installation with a solution developed by Leroy-Somer and Flowserve.

A solar farm built by the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) at its Bollène site in the Vaucluse region of France, forms part of the development of the Donzère-Mondragon hydro-electric power plant, a site which has gradually become a cluster for producing renewable energy including hydro-electric, solar, and wind. Control Engineering Europe explores its SCADA choice.

Wireless acoustic transmitters are being used by a power generation company to identify failed steam traps, leaking valves, and boiler tube leaks. The use of these field instruments has provided some impressive cost saving figures.

Veolia has selected ARC Informatique PcVue SCADA software to monitor and control services and operations at its Super Rimiez water treatment plant near Nice in France. Key factors in its SCADA choice were performance, ease of use and lower total cost of ownership.