Waste Water Case Study | RS Industria

Freshwater consumption reduced as effluent dilution now rarely required

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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

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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

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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