Understanding Costs in Pump Station
Predictive Maintenance
Save thousands per year
Predictive maintenance is the best type of maintenance available because maintenance dollars are invested only where they are really needed. Being able to correct problems way before they become critical can save thousands per year in time and parts.
real-time diagnostics
Predictive maintenance means having the capacity to detect what becomes abnormal for the type installation where the product is installed. This not an alarm like high or low level, but real-time diagnostics which detect abnormal behavior while they are not critical yet.
Don't wait until it’s too late
Electrical equipment gets sick before dying. Based on thousands of installations of volumetric flow meter in lift stations, 1/3 of them have intermittent abnormal behaviors not detected by humans since these behaviors are not critical until it’s too late.
Savings
Economical choice
Use the efficiency of the pumps to save from few dollars to hundreds of dollars per year per station on the electrical bill.
Ressource consumption
Volucalc calculates the efficiency of each pump, which is the volume pumped per watt of electricity consumed. Alternating between pumps means the pump with the lowest flow rate, usually the least efficient, always pump more than the best pumps.
Efficient choice
Through TCP/IP MODBUS, a PLC can get from Volucalc which pump is the best and based on the flow rate, also supplied by Volucalc, could use the most efficient pump when the flow in the station is above a certain value and the least efficient pump when the flow is low.
Real-time data
Tremendous savings
Volucalc, when connected to a level sensor, provides flow in real time with an accuracy that is only surpassed by a properly calibrated mag meter, without having to spend the tens of thousands of dollars related to the installation of a mag meter.
Great information flow
A good monitoring system reports when pumps start and stop and when standards alarms occur. Also, a good monitoring system might calculate an acceptable flow rate without being sure because no monitoring system other than Volucalc compensates for abnormal behaviors found in 1/3 of lift stations. Still, what about between the pump starts and stops, which is most of the time? Water is still coming in. The flow is still changing.
Advantageous technical choice
Most mag meters are installed on the piping out of the station, therefore only supplying a volume and the flow of the pumps in operation. What about flow in which never stops, pump run time, individual pump capacity, pump efficiency, peak flow, etc.?