PUMPS AND PUMPING SYSTEMS
Saving cash with ABB anti-jam software
A
BB anti-jam software is saving £6,000 the common functions needed by water and without a single incidence of ragging. The other
a year on maintenance for Anglian waste utilities, industrial plants and other pump pump, without the software installed, continued
Water at its Stanbridgeford Wastewater users. The anti-jam software performs a to suffer ragging and needed to be lifted and
Treatment Works in Bedfordshire. number of cleaning cycles every time the cleaned twice in the same time.
Anglian Water was suffering frequent ragging pump starts. Each cycle consists of a series of Steve Richardson, Area Energy Engineer for
of the two 55kW dry well pumps at the site. rapid ramp ups in forward and reverse Anglian, says: “The other pump had the
The pumps would rag up once a week, directions. Taking one to two minutes to software installed in March and since then we
requiring staff to lift, clean and replace the complete, the cleaning cycle removes the have had no ragging problems from either
pumps in the well. As Stanbridgeford is debris from around the pump volute, pump. We have only lifted the pumps once just
unmanned, staff had to travel to the site, preventing it from entering the pump and to check on their condition.” This is saving
adding to costs, taking them away from their blocking it when the pump ramps up from zero Anglian Water an estimated £6,000 a year in
normal work and having a knock on effect at to its normal operating speed. maintenance costs.
other sites. The two pumps worked on a 24 One of the pumps had the software installed The lack of ragging and the subsequent
hour duty cycle and were each driven by a in February and was in operation for six weeks increase in operational time mean that Anglian
55kW ABB industrial drive. Water has the opportunity to run the pumps at
Paul Stafford of ABB Drives Alliance member, a lower speed or for less time and still achieve
Sentridge Controls, was asked to look at the the desired pumping volumes.
problem and recommend a solution. “We had Adam Brookes, of Anglian Water’s innovation
used ABB’s anti-jam software on other similar team, says: “There will be energy savings at
installations with the same problem before and Stanbridgeford. We are currently looking at the
knew it could bring great benefits to Anglian prospects for using the anti-jam software on
Water’s application.” some other sites, in Norfolk, and we will be
The ABB anti-jam software is part of its able to log the efficiency data before and
Intelligent Pump Control (IPC) software. An
Anglian Water was suffering frequent ragging of
after installation to show how efficiency
add-on to ABB industrial drives, IPC contains all its dry well pumps has improved.” ■■■
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