Our 2023 programme is listed below.
Our 2023 programme is listed below.
Thursday May 11th 2023
The Water Equipment Show exhibition opens at 08:30hrs and the Technical Sessions open at 09:30hrs with the “Welcome presentation”.
The Water Equipment Show is the leading event for those operating within the water and wastewater industries, showcasing the wide range of equipment and services that are available from many of the leading manufacturers, suppliers and contractors.
The show closes at 16:00hrs.
Bob Went
Chairman
Pump Centre
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Thames Water has over 4000 wastewater pumping stations and more than 1000 clean water pumping stations and over time, a combination of changes such as increases in the required duty of a station (growth or climate change), pump wear, pressure management (leakage reduction) can mean that pumps can be operating significantly outside preferred operating ranges, with consequent impacts on pump service life and efficiency. The presentation will discuss a range of tools and approaches Thames Water is utilising to improve understanding of pumping systems to drive pump efficiency and service life improvements and how the approach is being extended to wastewater aeration blower systems.
Ciaran Heaney
Head of Above Ground Engineering Engineering and Assets
Thames Water
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Presenting examples of where self-priming pumps have aided in reducing life cycle costs, solved problems where traditional pumps had failed, removed health and safety concerns and greatly reduced maintenance costs through innovative design features. Focus is on UK water industry where these pumps have provided many solutions to existing issues on both new and refurbishment projects.
Trevor Ellott
Hydromarque
Sales Director
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The presentation discusses:
• Air Blower Technologies
• Blowers in Water Treatment Applications
• Performance data and blower sizing
• Variable Speed Drives and integrated control systems
• Start up and Safety valves
• Whole life costs
Kirk Lyons
National Sales Manager
Atlas Copco
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This presentation shows Severn Trent Water’s successful attempt to monitor RBC bearings and the journey and path taken to get there. Working with the Asset Care Team we have concentrated our efforts on RBC’s (Rotating Biological Contactors). With very low RPM (around 1rpm) our aim was to provide a clear and easy understanding of results to monitor the bearings with accuracy. My presentation is about the journey to monitor these bearings and successfully call some lubrication issues and early signs of damage saving Severn Trent Water thousands of £’s in downtime and unplanned failure.
John Loane
Training Manager and Technical Sales Engineer
SPM Instruments UK
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The presentation relates to a case study of the Honor Oak pump station at TW. A detailed investigation to identify the system curve and match this to the pump curve allows us to validate the duty point with respect to BEP. This exercise has allowed us to identify that even though operationally the pump is delivering its output the detailed evaluation has identified that the cost of production is significantly higher than it should be due the actual operating point with respect to BEP when delivering into a network that is responding to consumer demand. With today’s energy costs this has identified that selecting a pump that is operating at BEP would provide TW with a payback for the additional investment within 1 year and thus reducing the future cost of all production. In addition, operating the pump at or close to its BEP will result in increasing the Mean Time Between Failure thus providing resilience and reliability and providing additional benefits and cost savings for TW.
The basis of our investigation is through incremental changes identified through the analysis of the system curve. BEP envelope and actual network demand to determine the ideal pump selection which has identified significant savings that are achievable via a detailed analysis and understanding of each system.
Developments in (non-metallic) materials, specifically internal coatings and PEEK wear rings have given significant improvements to quoted pump efficiencies, but these benefits are not permanent and require regular overhauls to be maintained.
The recent unprecedented increase in OPEX costs means that a reset in pump selection methodology maybe beneficial.
The purpose of this presentation is to re-emphasise the relationship between specific speed and ‘built-in’ pump efficiency, highlighting the main sources of pump internal losses.
Paul West
Projects Manager
Torishima
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Sewerage pumps stations (SPS) can present some formidable design, operational management, tasking efficiency and safety challenges – particularly for ‘out of hours’ solo workers. This presentation draws on accumulated, shared, and learned experience gained from working with a variety of site operators, equipment OEM’s and other stakeholders, in order to provide an insight into how many common SPS and other water industry, access and taking risks can potentially, be more effectively mitigated whilst simultaneously improving operational efficiencies. The primary aim being to demonstrate how more can be achieved with less. Equipment innovations and utilisation techniques will be practically demonstrated in conjunction with presented video, and pictorial materials referencing wastewater operator case study feedback.
Alek Cooper
National Sales Manager
Reid Lifting
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Electric motors are the workhorse of industry and in particular the water and wastewater industries where they account for approximately 90% of the electrical energy use. This session will discuss technology advancements, upcoming legislation changes, case studies and the merits of introducing a motor policy to help drive an approach that will save money and energy.
Martin Richardson
Water Framework Manager
ABB Limited
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This presentation will cover how Anglian Water and Schneider Electric joined forces to improve pumping station and catchment optimisation, resulting in reduced flood events and optimised wastewater operations.
An overview of how new pump design can achieve high operational efficiency, high resilience and achieve legislative requirements while simultaneously reducing impact in manufacturing. To deliver high-performance operational results that reduce environmental impact.
Simon Oakes
Director
Wilo Pumps
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Energy consumption and the associated CO2 emissions are together with operational reliability the main drivers of TOTEX in Water Utility systems. It is the responsibility of manufacturers to bring products to market that counter these challenges. There is the possibility of 10%-point motor efficiency gain and reduced system complexity through the use of a borehole pump with permanent magnet motors.
Mark Webb
Sales Manager for Water Utility
Grundfos
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Land drainage pumping stations can be made more energy efficient by using the most efficient pumps, including of VSD’s etc. However, what is not always considered are the efficiencies that can be gained through the whole pumping station system, which includes smart, low CO2 ancillary product selection such as HDPE non-return valves.
Martin van Nieuwenhuyzen
Sales Director
Aquatic Control Engineering
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YWS have recently installed over 100 Concertor pumps and aims to replace 760 (<10kW) pumps in total. With an 84% reduction in reactive work compared to the previous 5 years, YWS are seeing efficiency beyond power savings. When YWS start installing the Concertor Gateway, further efficiencies will be realised i.e. fat ring reduction, main cleaning, lower specific energy etc. Beyond the efficiency realised from the Concertor’s functionality, the partnership between YWS and Xylem continues to realise consequential efficiencies.
The aim of our presentation is to outline the importance of maintaining efficiency across the lifetime of a pump and how efficiency degradation can be prevented or reduced by means of improved pump design and operation.
Robbie Graham
Sales Engineer
SPP Pumps
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A presentation for comparison between OPEX & CAPEX with an in-depth look into the considerations of working with Total Cost of Ownership.
Russell Frost
Product Manager
Robuschi/Ingersoll Rand
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Learn how using components of standardisation and collaboration can drive efficiency in the water sector with Siemens. By providing the right information from industrial system via edge and cloud technology, learn how the water sector can make informed decisions to reduce operational costs, improve quality and sustainably move towards AMP8
John Mackey
Digitalisation Sales Specialist
Siemens
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SEEPEX have developed products and services as a result of consultation with customers understanding their “hurt” points - mostly revolving around asset efficiency and reactive maintenance. SEEPEX are able to demonstrate how the product has been developed to restore and maintain efficiency and when coupled with monitoring can increase the uptime and predict when maintenance is required reducing costly inefficient unplanned maintenance.
Damian Clifford
Commercial Leader
SEEPEX UK
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Bedford Pumps range of enhanced solids handling suspended bowl pumps to provide maximum efficiency on treated effluent applications. Engineered to handle solids with danger chance of ragging the range offers enhanced life and lower maintenance costs resulting in the lowest total cost of ownership. The presentation will include a case study for United Utilities with a review of its current state of play, four years after installation.
Gary Leatherbarrow
Sales Director
Bedford Pumps
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We will explain the benefits of the system which are an alternative to primary settlement tank construction on new works, space-saving integration into existing works to provide increased capacity and separation of primary sludge with a significant reduction in (COD/BOD/TSS) as well as significant energy savings via reduction of the loading on the existing biological treatment systems on the works. The presentation will provide a structured walk-through of the drivers, solution, system design and options followed by the data supporting the performance of the process.
Dale Foster
Business Development Manager
HUBER Technology
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Discussion on the topic of Supra Harmonics and its effects on peripheral equipment within a pumping station with real live case studies as references. What they are, how to measure them and how to resolve them.
John Mitchell
Global Sales and Marketing Director
CP Automation
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The presentation will focus on a digital solution for improving pump system resilience and efficiency. It will look at some of the challenges with pump operation and how the tool can solve these challenges for operators, engineers and managers. It will also include insights into the digital platform and a case study of a pump system in operation.
Matt Rolls
Vice President of Business Development
Specific Energy
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With the drive to reduce energy consumption and reduce operation costs in the working life of a pump, we will detail how to optimise efficiency and save operations costs.
Jim Miller
Sales Channel Manager
Celeros Flow Technology
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Within the wastewater process ensuring the inlet screening is performing well is paramount to keeping costs and resources to an acceptable level throughout the whole treatment facility, this presentation takes a look at how to plan a great inlet and how to get the best out of it.
Darren Howarth
Inlet Process Range Manager
United Utilities
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The focus on “getting data” from controls and sensors to central systems or the cloud can lead inflexible data gateway or IoT investments which may limit the ability to realise value from Big Data efforts. A more adaptable approach to what tech is deployed alongside RTUs and control systems can pay dividends in several ways: allowing logic and results from offline analysis to be “pushed back” closer to the source; enabling edge-deployed real-time analytics; enabling more data collection/distribution options over time; and putting open-architecture computing/processing power in place that can be used for different purposes over time. Rather than thinking of “smart” as being exclusively linked to Big Data, we see this combination of flexible tech and flexible edge software as enabling a “Small Data” approach that supplements the more expensive (and often longer) Big Data efforts.
David Evanson
Corporate Vendor Relationship Manager
Novotek UK
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There are many reasons why, even when the correct pump is selected, the reliability and efficiency of Centrifugal Pumps is often lower than anticipated. This presentation examines some of the key factors that impact on reliability and efficiency and suggests how maintenance activity, new technology and pump performance checks can all help optimise long-term performance.
Kevin Gaunt
Principal Consultant, Mechanical Engineering
Pump Centre
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Presentation of SurfCleaner’s work with using gravimetric separation to collect, separate and discharge floating sludge while minimising power consumption and water wastage.
Johan Jubner
VP Nordic Sales
SurfCleaner
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Foe: Galvanic corrosion can result in rapid failure. Two different metals in contact in a wet environment, only one metal corrodes. Find out why and how this occurs.
Friend: Galvanic corrosion enables us to use sacrificial coatings and anodes to protect high value assets. In wet environments expensive metals can be protected from corrosion by connecting them to a cheaper metal which slowly corrodes. What are the pros and cons of this approach to corrosion protection?
Maxine Watson
Principal Consultant, Metallurgy
Pump Centre
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