Increasing safety in a wastewater treatment plant

The inlet of this wastewater treatment plant is variable due to industrial high load wastewater. The manual dosing of flocculants was not enough to maintain the concentration of phosphate in the outlet under the official limit of 1 mg/l P total. The customer challenge is to respect the official outlet limit of Phosphate and manage the chemicals’ costs efficiently.

The best way to reach this goals was to implement an automation system for chemical dosing which is based on phosphate measurement - in the outlet and in the inlet. The automation system (Liquicontrol-P) of Endress+Hauser was the only system who was able to measure both points:

• By using the inlet Phosphate concentration the algorithm define the “stoichiometric“ quantity of flocculants.

• By using the outlet phosphate concentration a predictive regulator increase or decrease the previous quantity of flocculants in order to follow the set-point that the customer can freely define for the outlet (in our case 0,8mg/l).

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• Instruments: Phosphate analyzer with 2 channel version (CA71PH, CAT221 for outlet, CAT221 for inlet)

• Hardware: PLC (Rockwell Automation Allen Bradly® CompactLogix^TM)

• Software: Liquicontrol-P

• Dosing pumps

• Cabinet for outdoor installation of analyzer, electric box and pumps

• Keeping the official outlet limit of Phosphate at all times

• Optimizing the plant safety of your wastewater treatment plant

• Managing the chemicals cost efficiently

• Reducte the production of sludge