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| New solution for water treatment industry ControlSoft announced the availability of the latest addition to their suite of advanced control solutions for the water treatment industry. Mantra Time of Day Pumping, Mantra TDP, minimizes power costs for pumping water into distribution networks and reservoirs. Mantra TDP optimizes and schedules pumping activity to minimize total utility cost while assuring adequate water supply for demand and safety requirements. Previous studies indicate that Time of Day Pumping reduces the power costs for water transmission and distribution by 25% to 60% over demand based pumping schedules. Time of Day Pumping takes advantage of water storage capacity to schedule water supply pumping to time periods with the lowest power cost, while smoothing water movement requirements to reduce peak power demand surcharges. Mantra TDP monitors tank levels and usage rates on-line and optimizes pump schedules every 15-30 minutes. Sudden demand changes, such as a drawdown due to a fire, are quickly identified and new pumping schedules implemented to accommodate the new demand minimizing costs, while maintaining adequate pressures and safety requirements. ControlSoft's Mantra advanced process control system uses model predictive techniques to improve profitability and product quality. MANTRA is applied as supervisory control over the existing SCADA or control system using our suite of standard interfaces. The complete library of control functions and logic are available to allow incorporating other advanced control solutions, such as chemical injection optimization. Faceplates, also selected from the built-in library, can be used standalone or embedded in the existing Human Machine Interface. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |