But what are Advanced Process Modules?
ID can do far more that just compliance reporting, with Advanced Process Modules (APMs) you can get in depth information on how your processes are performing, which can be used to drive positive outcomes, including saving chemicals, time, money and extending equipment life.
In the Lutra TV Episode on the left we talk about the ways the different APMs can be used for both water and wastewater treatment, from Activated Sludge to Filter Performance, watch the full video for a more in depth look at what they have to offer.
With various modules available for water and wastewater processes there is bound to be one that can help at your plant.
Water Advanced Process Modules
Water treatment provides a lot of data, but are you making the most of it? By utilising ID's Advanced Process Modules you can gain a better understanding of how your plant is performing and make optimisation and improvements.
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Cyanobacteria (Blue Green Algae) Monitor
Wouldn't it be great to be able to monitor and predict when cyanobacteria in your source water may cause taste or health issues, well now you can. Combing spectrofluorometers, a proper sampling program and weather data, our Cyano monitoring APM can give you advanced warning and even help set chemical dosing to treat the issues.
Filter Performance
If you want to see how you filters are performing, compare them to each other and look at things like backwash rates to ascertain media conditions and other factors then the Filter Performance APM is for you. It gives detailed insights into filter performance and condition allowing you to make chances which can lead to less wastage, prolonged media life and chemical savings.
More To Come...
Our process engineers are always on the look out for ways to combine their process knowledge with ID's data capabilities to add value and improve process performance. Make sure to check back to this page to see the latest APMs, or sign up to our ID Newsletter to stay up to date.
Wastewater Advanced Process Modules
The value of data in from a wastewater plant can often be overlooked, but with ID's Advanced Process Modules (APMs) you can really make the most of it to track performance and improve efficiency.
Find Out more in the short videos below:
Chemical Consumption
With nutrient removal to low concentrations becoming more common, wastewater treatment plants are having to either build new plants, retrofit chemical dosing, or dose more chemical to achieve effluent nitrogen and phosphorus limits.
So Lutra developed this batch report that can take form data or SCADA data such as flow meter, totalisers, tank levels, etc. to consistently and accurately calculate daily, weekly, monthly or annual chemical consumption across a wastewater treatment plant such as alum, acetic acid or caustic soda.
We can then apply unit cost to calculate overall opex and cost per cubic meter, to help you understand whether you are dosing chemical in a cost-effective way and catch any drifts in efficiency.
Biofilm Processes
With technologies like MABR and MBBR popping up more regularly, biofilm is becoming a more common technology for upgrades or biological intensification.
We produced a report, which can take lab data, form data or SCADA data such as total flow, pollutant concentrations, etc. and calculate surface area loading rates and surface area removal rates.
With temperature data, we can do temperature correction to normalize to a reference temperature, where separately we can account for substrate limitations in the removal rates.
If that's more complicated than you need, we can just look at removal efficiencies for pollutants like soluble BOD, soluble COD, ammonia or nitrate.
Activated Sludge
Our activated sludge module is an analytical batch report which will give good process insight while setting the goal posts for activated sludge data collection.
We can take lab data, form data and SCADA data to consistently and correctly calculate parameters such as SVI, SRT, F to M, SRT safety factor, secondary clarifier hydraulic and solids loading rates.
We then average them across the time period shown here as a week to provide analytical insights. The idea being that we embed our consulting knowledge into ID to empower our clients to make optimal decisions.