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Anglian Water – which covers 10,000 square miles and services some 6 million customers – teamed up with Schneider Electric to focus on efficient water resource management and in particular, leakage control. The project saw the replacement of its ARTS2000 UHF Telemetry System with an Integrated Remote Intelligence Service, while the development of an Integrated Leakage and Pressure Management system was also undertaken. The work has led to a 10 per cent increase in operational efficiency.
Matt Walker, Strategic Programme Manager for Anglian Water said: “Implementations on the scale of one we have just completed are hugely complex and fraught with risk. However, the way we have worked collaboratively with Schneider has been fantastic and a great example of what a truly integrated team can achieve.” With Schneider Electric, the company embarked on replacing its wireless telemetry system – the largest UHF telemetry system that exists in Western Europe today. It comprises 6,500 operational sites, more than 12,000 telemetry outstations and 639,090 points.
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Anglian Water implemented Schneider Electric’s StruxureWare SCADA Expert ClearSCADA solution, known as the Integrated Remote Intelligence Service (IRIS) system. This was used to handle real-time wireless data transmission and provide a software platform for the telemetry system.
Storing the data flow
To house the entire water network’s data sets, an Integrated Leakage and Pressure Management system (ILPM) was developed using Schneider Electric’s Water Management Suite (WMS) technology. This facilitates collection of data across multiple systems and improves overall processing.
As a result, the system has empowered users to effectively manage leak detection and complete internal and regulatory reports much more easily, ensuring Anglian Water is aware of any leakage as soon as it occurs. Over 100 people in the company are now using the system and driving efficiencies in leakage reporting and planning.
Increasing operational efficiency
In addition, built in alarm systems have enabled users to reduce the number of redundant alarms and suppress consequential alerts caused by fieldwork maintenance. Now, employees are only responding to alarms if genuinely needed.
This has increased operational efficiency by approximately 10 per cent in jobs saved. With predictive analysis capabilities, users can also improve forecasting, for example, to see how long it takes to empty and fill tanks and
educing leakage for customers is a priority and by 2020, Anglian Water aims to reduce leakage levels by 10 per cent from its 2015 baseline.
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Schneider Electric and Anglian Water join forces to streamline operations and reduce energy bills
anticipate the time needed to respond to problems. Using built-in intelligence, teams can now take over management of the entire network, rather than just individual sites.
Next steps
Anglian Water intends to extend the relationship with Schneider Electric to evolve ILPM through pressure management benefit tracking and integration with online hydraulic models.
It also plans to trial Schneider Electric’s Aquis solution, which provides past and real-time network modelling, as well as forecasting capabilities to reduce operational and energy costs associated with water distribution activity. Anglian Water can now support future advancements and use the platform as the foundation of its key business and operational objectives for AMP6, AMP7 and beyond.
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grating system that offers a variety of installation techniques from Saint- Gobain PAM has enabled Galldris Construction to fit almost 2km of the product to remove excess surface water inside the new Old Oak Common rail maintenance building for Crossrail trains. The Operation, Maintenance and Control (OMC) building is part of a £150m new rail depot on the site. It will have nine roads, or rail tracks, for the maintenance of the Crossrail trains. One of the roads will be used as a heavy washdown facility, while the drainage for the other eight roads will need to remove rainwater runoff from the trains. Galldris construction (responsible for the OMC’s civils package), needed 2km of grating to remove surface water, which they could install without damaging the underfloor heating in the OMC building.
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Saint Gobain-PAM UK’s Mecalinea grating offered a number of options to secure it in place, using a bolt or screw, or for the areas where the underfloor heating is nearby, with non-shrink pourable grout. Lengths of the system can also be joined using connecting pieces in its centre, making the whole grating system stronger and more durable.
Water for the heavy washdown road will run through the grating into a channel and will be removed by drainage outlets, while the rainwater run off in the channels on the other
An adaptable drainage solution for Old Oak Common Crossrail train depot
First class heating system for Cambridge college
embroke College, Cambridge, has upgraded its heating system with a reliable, energy- efficient solution that meets its modern day requirements. The 14th Century college now has high-performance, energy-efficient heating courtesy of four new Remeha condensing boilers.
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uSaint Gobain‐PAM UK’s Mecalinea grating provided a flexible solution for removing excess surface water in the Old Oak Common Crossrail train depot.
eight roads has one outlet and will generally evaporate.
Barrie McElhinney, Project Manager for Galldris Construction, said: “Installing drainage channels to remove the surface water in the OMC building provided us with an unusual problem due to the proximity of the underfloor heating. The flexible fixing options offered by Saint Gobain PAM’s Mecalinea grating really helped us solve this.”
www.saint-gobain-pam.co.uk 10 BUILDING SERVICES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER OCTOBER 2016
The central plant room at Pembroke College provides heating and hot water to most buildings on the college site. This includes the student accommodation housing more than 200 students and Pembroke’s famous Chapel, the first completed work by Sir Christopher Wren. So when the previous boiler plant began to fail, Pembroke’s Bursar was quick to act.
Increased output, improved reliability of the heating system and reduced running costs were the main concerns of the College. They brought in Robert Reeves at The Energy Practice Ltd to provide mechanical and electrical design consultancy on the project. He specified four compact, high efficiency Remeha Gas 310 Eco Pro 7-section boilers providing a total output of
1,580kW to meet the requirement for increased output and reliability. Size was a key consideration, as Robert Reeves explained: “Our challenge was to double the heat output for Pembroke College but within the same space occupied by the original pressure jet boilers. Taking into account the reliability we have previously experienced with these boilers, the required heat output and the small dimensions of the plant room, we felt the Remeha Gas 310 Eco Pro boilers were the most appropriate boilers for the application.” The smaller, lighter footprint of the Remeha Gas 310 Eco Pro also helped overcome the problem of awkward access to the plant room.
Pembroke College is pleased with the result, as Building Manager, Robert Griggs, confirmed: “The new boilers, combined with plate heat exchangers and a new distribution system in the completely remodelled plant room, provide reliability, capacity, efficiency and, importantly, comfort for our fellows, students and staff.”
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