For a quarter of a century Emerson has energized the water and wastewater treatment industries with innovative control solutions. Using Ovation® expert technology, our strategies help customers ensure cleaner, safer water supplies and reduce environmental hazards. By eliminating the need for manual control, providing total plant control from one centralized location, and reducing unexpected downtime, our control systems enable water, wastewater, and sewage service providers to operate more efficiently and accurately. This added control helps our customers maintain operations to meet environmental standards.

Access to real-time information helps assure both process quality and compliance with environmental regulations. Tighter overall control and process visibility made possible by Ovation’s integrated control architecture improves the management of treatment processes. By constantly adjusting chemical deployment based on flow levels and critical process measurement, for example, Ovation ensures better control over amounts of potentially harmful chemicals used in the treatment process. And, Ovation’s integrated asset management software ensures that critical equipment, including mechanical equipment, electrical systems, process equipment and instruments and valves are properly operating and helping to meet environmental mandates.

When some of the largest metropolitan centers in the United States require efficient, constant monitoring and control, they turn to the experts, Emerson. They have invested millions in our techonology and in doing so have realized significant operation cost-savings, and many middle-sector plants have found the same as well:

• Increased automation at the Aqueduct Filtration Plant, operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, allows complete control from one location, serving to increase efficiency and reduce error.
• Access to real-time data at Detroit’s Wastewater Treatment Plant allows effective monitoring and control to detect and isolate system leaks better, and to better control rapidly changing conditions such as storm water inflow.
• Stable maintenance of plant chemistry levels enables more accurate anticipation of storm water flows, resulting in high quality effluent at the City of Akron.
• Wide-area information network in San Diego County converges at Central Operations Management (COMC) for wastewater and storm water management, enabling efficient and environmentally optimal operation of disparate facilities.