Water & Wastewater Treatment

10 PUMP CENTRE CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION 2014 PREVIEW Technical conference 2014 - Breakout sessions Fieen free breakout sessions are being run in parallel with the main technical conference to provide high quality training opportunities to delegates. They will be run in the morning and repeated in the aernoon so delegates have the flexibility to create their own agendas. The limited number of places for each session will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. A •ll schedule will be available on the day. Aer the event, registered delegates will be able to request attendance for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) purposes. A Resolving pRoblems in sewAge pumping stAtions Mark Thomas, Flowcheck The presentation looks at typical problems found in pumping stations, why they often go unnoticed and the long-term costs of an inefficient pumping system. b positive displAcement pump specificAtions Brian Nesbitt, independent pump consultant Most process pump specifications are written for rotodynamic pumps. Most engineers writing specifications seem to be quite familiar with rotodynamic machines. However, for some applications, positive displacement (PD) pumps are a better selection. Unfortunately, PD pumps work in a different way to rotodynamic pumps and exhibit significantly different characteristics. Consequently, PD pumps must be specified in a slightly different way - with some additional process design considerations. This session will discuss the similarities and differences between rotodynamic and PD pumps and consider how pumps are perceived by users. Case studies will be used to illustrate points and some guidance will be imparted regarding simple selection limitations. c innovAtive RotARy-lobe pump design Reduces life-cycle cost in the wAteR industRy Marcel Verhoeven, Netzsch Pumps Innovative rotary-lobe pump design provides a unique combination of value-added benefits offering savings in installation, operation and maintenance time and cost. This presentation reviews the design features and analyses the reduction of life-cycle costs, using the WIMES LCC model. d condition-bAsed mAintenAnce – whAt is it? Colin Pickett, Pruftechnik Consider your plant – over the past year or so how many incidents can you identify where machine failure has resulted in unexpected costs to the company in terms of lost production, spare parts and additional labour hours? These failures may not have been on primary drives but on ancillary plant. All breakdowns cost the company money; all this money is subtracted from the bottom line profit of the company. e dRive systems foR pump ApplicAtions Philip Hall & Daniel Griffiths, WEG Electric Motors (UK) Energy saving pump systems, using high efficiency motors and variable speed drive (VSD) control complete with examples of calculations on payback, CO2 reduction and Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) payments. f migRAtion mAde eAsy Stewart Foster, MCS This case study reveals how customers can deal with legacy equipment and how migration tools and system integrator know-how can revitalise a plant and bring it into the 21st century. The Veolia-owned plant had ageing PLC 5 equipment and was becoming increasingly hard to maintain, with spares becoming near impossible to obtain. Veolia decided to look to the market for a new PLC. With Rockwell's migration tools (software and hardware), the system integrator MCS was able to show considerable savings against new-build.

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