Water & Wastewater Industry
AFT in the Water & Wastewater Industry
Aeration, Water Transfer & Delivery, Pumping, and more
Whether you work in treatment, sanitation, or distribution, your water system doesn't sleep. Maintaining continuous, reliable operation requires proper sizing and an adaptability to whatever your system throws at you. Luckily AFT software helps you determine a robust solution, ensuring your system works as well at 10,000 hours as at 100,000 hours.
AFT In Action
Wastewater Treatment Plant Resolves Downtime Issue and Saves 600,000 dollars with AFT Arrow
Company: Brown and Caldwell
Problem: Blowers in a wastewater treatment plant experienced surge conditions in hot months. Growing plant capacity required new construction, but the plant must remain operational during implementation.
Product Used: AFT Arrow was used to evaluate existing blower operation. The model helped inform equipment selection and construction sequencing to maintain operation.
Solution: Brown and Caldwell improved system reliability and flowrate by adjusting blower discharge pressure, saving significant capital costs to design alternatives. Blower capacity was increased by the equivalent of 2.5 blowers with no additional capital.
AFT Impulse Matches Data For Pumping
Station Check Valve Closure
Company: AQUATEC (SUEZ Group)
Problem: A study was performed to determine impact of check valve closure on surge pressures and compare the field data with model predictions. Swing and nozzle check valves were compared.
Product Used: AFT Impulse was used to model this water delivery system including pump trip scenarios. They imported GIS info for faster model construction.
Solution: AQUATEC (SUEZ Group) compared the operation of a swing check valve to a nozzle check valve, with both matching AFT Impulse predictions for peak pressure. Nozzle check valve reduced the maximum pressure rise by 63%. Field data matched Impulse predictions of pressure responses and surge tank levels.
Simulation of Transfer and Distribution of Thermally Hydrolyzed Sludge with AFT Fathom
Company: Jacobs CH2M
Problem: Expansion of a wastewater facility to include a thermal hydrolysis system and five digester units. The non-Newtonian nature of multiple system fluids and differing rheologies had to be considered.
Product Used: AFT Fathom was used to model Power Law non-Newtonian fluids and the control structure was modeled to control flow to parallel digester units.
Solution: Jacobs CH2M modeled three non-Newtonian sludges in a digestion process to size several pieces of equipment. Piping, pumps, and control valves for the digester feed and cooling systems were correctly sized.
Troubleshoot
Design
Accurately simulate component-system interactions prior to construction to ensure cost-effective and efficient designs
Import
Avoid redundant model building by importing GIS, PCF, EPANET, or CAESAR II Neutral files
Export
Automate data transfer with the Excel Export Manager, organizing your model's results exactly how you want them