Industry: Food & Bev Application: Chilled Water Pumps system Challenge: Ginsters bakery, which employs 370 staff producing more than three and a half million pastry products a week, was keen to investigate its energy use to improve efficiency and cut costs at the plant. Tom Crawford, Projects Manager, says: “Ginsters is committed to reducing its […]
Industry: Water Application: Clean Water Pumps Challenge: Bristol Water was concerned to improve the energy efficiency of its pumping equipment at its Purton pumping station. Jim Reckhouse, Engineering Manager Bristol Water, says. “The original pumping equipment had been installed in 1963 and tests showed that it had fallen below a good standard of efficiency. A […]
Industry: Water Application: Water Pumps and Drives Challenge: Southwest Water identified an energy saving opportunity at its Restormel Water Treatment Works near Lostwithiel in Cornwall. The eight drives at this site are of three ratings, 315 kW, 485kW and 523kW. The VSDs control the motors used to run the reservoir pumps, altering the speed of […]
Application: Pumps Industry: Water and wastewater treatment Challenge: Welsh Water needed to pump water to, and sewage away from, roads on new housing estates. The existing solution consisted of motor control centres (MCCs) with their own PLC and human-machine interface. They were costly and complex as they needed to be customised for each scheme and […]
Industry: Leisure Application: Pumps Site Challenge: The Aquarium features a 2.5 million litre seawater tank, which, at 10.5 m, is Britain’s biggest. Keeping the inhabitants of the tanks healthy involves constant pumping of water at the correct temperature, resulting in a substantial energy bill. John Selwood, Engineering Manager for the facility, says: “We needed to […]
Industry: Aggregates Application: Air Handling Fans Site Challenge: Aggregate production at Hills Quarry Products’ Cerney Wick site in Gloucestershire demands a high volume of water which returns to a sump for pumping to a settling bed. Float level switches in the sump activate a fixed speed pump. However, the fixed speed could be too high […]
