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Charlotte Stonestreet
Managing Editor |
Actuators in water treatment plant upgrade
09 May 2017
Rotork IQ Actuators have been selected for an upgrade at the Rio Manso water treatment plant at Brumadinho in the south east of Brazil, which involved the building of an additional filter plant, the replacement of obsolete actuators on existing plant and the introduction of a Profibus digital control network.
The majority of the 136 Profibus DP enabled IQ electric actuators were installed to control the inlet, outlet and backwashing functions on the new and existing filters.
The remainder of the actuators are installed on the sludge collectors, sludge thickeners and secondary collectors from which the raw water is extracted for treatment.
Rotork Brazil worked closely with COPASA– a Brazilian company specialising in the design and implementation of solutions for water supply, sewage and solid waste management – main contractor Odebrecht and valve makers in Brazil and overseas during negotiations and technical discussions.
