Lift Station Analyzer

MerMaid

Lift Station

How can a lift station with two identical pumps, having identical flow rates waste $2000 or more on electrical power per year? Simple - one of the pumps uses 40% more electricity than the other to do the same job. Yes, it is possible and it happens every day. Electrical bills can be drastically reduced by indentifying how much electricity is wasted by inefficient pumps in your collection system, and acting on it.

Flow rate and energy consumption for each pump are required to calculate pump efficiency: the number of gallons pumped per watt of electricity used. Until now, this money saving service was too expensive requiring highly trained field persona and nearly $20,000 of power and flow monitoring instruments for several days to get all the required data. The cost of such a service was simply too high … until now.

Over a period of 17 years, our engineering staff developed the most accurate patented volumetric flow technology. Then, for 7 years, we worked on a multi-pump multi-phase electrical recorder that could fit inside all pump station control panels. It is now possible to get this valuable information and much more at a reasonable cost by buying the equipment for permanent installations or by using our services.

After a one week analysis, you would get the following information:

Cost of using each pump for one year
Savings if only the most efficient pump would be used
Savings if the pumps were replaced by new highly efficient pumps (based on efficiency curves supplied by multiple manufacturer)
Daily flow curve compared to average dry day curve
Pump efficiency for each pump
Flow rate for each pump
Number of starts
Operation time
Average operation time per cycle
Equilibrium of the current within each pump
Equilibrium of the voltage powering the lift station, including generator for duplex stations
Abnormal starts or stops (multiple events within few seconds)
With optional rain gauge: daily flow, rain and infiltration curves
Monthly reports including for each day: rain, total daily volume, daily
average flow, maximum flow and time, and for each pump and combinations of pumps, average pump flow rate, number of starts, operation time.
Excel reports with one line per change of state of the pumps (and rain clicks) including time of occurrence of events, duration, pump operation, rain, volume, influent flow and pump flow rate.
Excel report with one line per 15 minutes (user can specify other period) including rain, volume, average influent flow, maximum flow and time, Average pump capacity, run time and starts.

	Inflow and Infiltration
	This report shows: Daily inflow (red), Average dry day inflow (brown), Infiltration (dotted line) The left panes show the data used to generate the reports. Data is sorted by clicking on heading of columns. Panes can be hidden to maximize the viewing area. Reports ca be generated in PDF format. Click here to download an example of this report.
	Real Time
	This screen displays data in real time from an instrument connected to the computer using one a RS232 serial communication port, a cellular modem, a Bluetooth or Ethernet interface. Type of dials can be selected in the left pane. Their size and range can be adjusted. The following information can be viewed in real time: Current and Voltage Frequency Time Battery voltage Temperature Analog and digital inputs Rain (pulse input)
	Event and Flow
	This report shows: Date, time and duration of each part of pumping cycles. Pump in operation color coded to follow alternation 100% accurate inflow when no pump runs. Calculated estimated inflow when pumps are in operation Data is sorted by clicking on heading of columns. Exported to native Excel format and PDF Variation of the report shows: One line per period of 15 and 30 minutes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12 hours, one day, one week and one month. Each line includes rain, volume, inflow, maximum inflow and time, and for each combination of pumps, outflow, run time and number of starts. Summaries Click here to download an example of the monthly report.
	Evaluation Report
	The detail of this report is described above in this page. Settings related to this report are in the left pane. They are: Cost per kilowatt Specify the efficiency used to compare the pumps or to compare them between themselves. Minimum duration of an event to be considered suspicious. Based on the first two elements, the cost of the energy wasted will be affected. This report ca be exported to native Excel format and PDF. Click here to download an example of this report.
	Current, Voltage and others
	This report is very practical to analyze the electrical behavior of the pumps. The scale can be adjusted. The following information can be viewed: Current Voltage Frequency Power Each phase of Pump 1, 2 or 3 individually Analog input (4-20mA/0-5V) Battery Temperature