- Case Study -
Wastewater Treatment Insights.
Freshwater consumption reduced as effluent dilution now rarely required
Reduced effluent disposal costs as the volume discharged is now much lower.
Improved production uptime as maintenance team able to concentrate on core assets
More cost-effective environmental compliance monitoring
The Customer
Kerry Group
A global leader in the development of taste and nutrition, with solutions for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical markets.
- Multinational operations
Site: Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire
Maintenance team: 15 Engineers
Products
- Beverage Syrups
- Toppings & Creamers
- Sauces
The Problem.
No single point of Effluent Compliance & process monitoring:
- Patchwork of pumps, meters and control systems evolved over the WWT plant’s long lifetime
- Monitoring and recording conducted manually
- Labour-intensive & inefficient
- Time-lag meant reactive control
The Solution.
Create a digitally-connected plant monitoring system
- Connected existing pumps, valves & pH/COD meters
- Continuously upload monitoring data to RS Industria platform
- Trending alerts set up for key parameters
- pH & COD
- Alerts send direct to maintenance team’s mobiles
- ‘Compliance Dashboard’ created for real-time view of effluent quality and tank levels
“The data has enabled us to significantly reduce the amount of water being used to dilute high strength or out of consent effluent, as we have been able to investigate where the spikes are coming from and stop them at source. Effluent issues have since gone from being out biggest headache to the one of the site's best performers. ”
Ben Botwright - Engineering Manager
The Data.
The Benefits.
Freshwater consumption reduced as effluent dilution now rarely required
Reduced effluent disposal costs as the volume discharged is now much lower.
Improved production uptime as maintenance team able to concentrate on core assets
More cost-effective environmental compliance monitoring