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Some of the largest cities
in the country -- including Detroit, San Diego and Sacramento
-- as well as smaller municipalities rely on Emerson's
Ovation® expert control technology to help ensure cleaner,
safer water supplies, reduce environmental hazards, and
realize significant operational cost savings.
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AUSTIN , TEXAS (June 13, 2005) — As our demand for water
is growing, so is the concern for the safety of drinking water.
At the same time, staffs and budgets are shrinking, making monitoring
difficult due to limited resources. To detect and protect against
every conceivable parameter becomes an enormous task for operators
of water treatment plants. Emerson demonstrates its long-term
support of the potable water industry with online analysis and
monitoring systems that can be located at strategic points in the
distribution system, as well as a broad portfolio of leading-edge
control and optimization technologies designed specifically to
meet the industry’s
complex demands. These automation and analytical solutions will
be featured at Emerson’s booth number 2331 at the 2005
AWWA Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco, June 12 – 16,
2005.
"From instrumentation and sensors to asset management and
enterprise-wide integration, Emerson is the clear choice for
delivering award-winning technology and proven solutions to the
water industry,” said
Bob Yeager, president of Emerson Process Management’s Power & Water
Solutions division . “Our ability to be a single-source
provider really sets us apart from other vendors and system integrators
serving the water industry.
Integrated
Systems
Emerson draws from its broad
portfolio – both expert personnel
and advanced technologies – to create an integrated system
that gives municipalities an unparalleled ability to optimize the
business, processes and assets of their drinking water plants.
Emerson’s PlantWeb®, a powerful, information-rich digital
plant architecture delivers asset management, process control and
management execution through intelligent field devices, standards
and scalable platforms, and integrated modular software. Throughout
the plant, intelligent field devices deliver predictive diagnostic
information to AMS™ Suite applications within the Ovation® expert
control system.
The Ovation control system
optimizes the operations and economics of water and wastewater
operations. Some of the largest cities in the country – including
Detroit, San Diego and Sacramento – as
well as smaller municipalities, rely on Ovation to help ensure
cleaner, safer water supplies, reduce environmental hazards and
realize significant operational cost savings. Ovation makes it
possible to seamlessly integrate information not only at the
plant level but also on a district-wide basis, resulting in additional
measurable benefits.
Plant operations can be further
enhanced by the integration of Emerson’s SmartProcess® plant
optimization software into the Ovation control system. SmartProcess
advanced control software optimizes control and monitoring of
plant processes within operational and regulatory limits, enhancing
plant efficiency and decreasing operating costs. By building
plant-specific models to simulate process variations and changing
conditions, SmartProcess identifies the precise control settings
for continuous optimal performance. The plant model incorporates
self-learning features that enable it to adapt to long-term changes
in the plant.
To help its water and wastewater customers proactively address
cyber security issues, Emerson has incorporated security-focused
enhancements into the Ovation control system. These include machine
authentication and data encryption for the secure transfer of information
over common data links, more stringent password management, hardening
and streamlining/ formalizing user permissions.
The Ovation systems
enhancements and features are just part of Emerson’s ongoing
and comprehensive commitment to providing customers with cyber
security solutions for today’s
ever-changing environment. Emerson also offers information regarding
important security announcements, as well as security patch monitoring
and notification on its secure Ovation/WDPF Users’ Web
site. Other efforts include expanding Emerson’s SureService
SM customer support program to include such services as security
assessments and audits.
Measurement Solutions
At the device level, Emerson
offers on-line analysis systems, instruments and sensors that
help plants meet ever-changing requirements, including the Multiparameter
Water Quality System introduced last year that now comes with
the popular Clarity II online turbidity. The Clarity II enables
plants to continuously monitor turbidity levels to ensure the safety
and quality of water and meet U.S. EPA and international ISO regulations.
Offering a plumb and play™ version
for ease of installation, the WQS also offers platforms that
range from basic analog output instruments to transmitters with
digital outputs powered by solar energy, and utilizing user-specified
instruments and sensors. The WQS Water Quality System is a flexible
approach offering a variety of options making it customizable
to meet each plant’s particular needs. By continuously
monitoring several critical water quality measurements online,
plant operations can develop a baseline for measurements that
indicate normal water conditions. They can then better understand
and predict what measurement data is appropriate.
New this year
is the FCL i , a pH independent way to
monitor free chlorine. This means no pH sensor, for a lower cost
of ownership, due to less initial investment and maintenance
time for sensor calibration. Other savings inherent with this
design are the reagent-free design and low water consumption
as the minimum sample size is 1.5 gallons per hour. Not only
are savings realized for the reagent, but also no sample conditioning
system is required.
"Emerson’s complete line of
industry-leading measurement solutions for municipal drinking
water plants is backed by decades of real-world, on-line water
monitoring experience and award-winning customer support,” said
John Wright, vice president of marketing, Emerson Process Management,
Rosemount Analytical.
Other analysis systems from Emerson Process
Management that are critical to drinking water plants include:
turbidity, water distribution monitoring systems, monochloramine,
ozone, pH, dissolved oxygen, ORP, conductivity, particle
counting and temperature. These measurement solutions enable plants
to meet governmental requirements, help ensure water safety
and quality, improve plant efficiency and reduce overall
costs.
In addition, the complete line of instruments and sensors
for drinking water plants offer accuracy, value and ease of use.
Based on 60 years of industry expertise, Emerson analyzers and
transmitters, including the Models 5081, Xmt, 1055 and 54e, are
built with leading-edge technology for Foundation™ fieldbus
and HART connectivity, low maintenance requirements for lower
total cost of ownership, and backed by a worldwide customer service
and support organization. The Model MCL system for measuring
free chlorine and monochloramine is a plug-and-plumb, reagent-free
system that eliminates the costs of the reagent chemicals and
the associated labor and management costs of changing out the
reagent bottles and ordering, storing, stocking and disposing
of the reagents. The Models 396 and 399 pH/ORP sensors enable
plants to determine the level of chemical reactivity and detect
changes that impact the effectiveness of disinfection and potential
corrosion of the distribution network. The Models 225, 400 and
403 conductivity sensors provide plants with an indication of
the total dissolved solids and the susceptibility to scaling.
Ozone analyzers and sensors monitor disinfection levels, and
the dissolved oxygen analyzers and sensors enable plants to ensure
a healthy environment for biological disinfection.
All of these
solutions are designed to meet the specific needs of municipal
drinking water plants and are currently available for order.
About
Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process
Management (www.emersonprocess.com),
an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate
their production, processing and distribution in the power, water
and wastewater treatment, chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp
and paper, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and other industries.
A division of Emerson, Rosemount Analytical (www.raihome.com)
includes a Liquid Division in Irvine, Calif., that designs and
manufactures analyzers, transmitters and sensors for the on-line
measurement of pH, ORP, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, chlorine,
ozone and turbidity.
Emerson's Power & Water Solutions division
(www.emersonprocess-powerwater.com) is a global supplier of advanced
distributed process control and information systems. The Pittsburgh-based
company is a recognized leader in developing plant-wide process
control solutions for the power generation, water treatment and
wastewater treatment industries.
The best-in-class technology and expertise of Rosemount Analytical
and Power & Water Solutions play a key role in the Emerson
mission of combining superior products and technology with industry-specific
engineering, consulting, project management and maintenance services.
Emerson brands include PlantWeb®, SmartProcess®, Rosemount® ,
Fisher® , Micro Motion® , DeltaV ™, Daniel®,
Ovation® ,
and AMS™ Suite.
About
Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), based in St. Louis, is a global
leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide
innovative solutions to customers through its network power,
process management, industrial automation, climate technologies,
and appliance and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2004
were $15.6 billion. For more information, visit www.GoToEmerson.com.
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Ovation, SureService, SmartProcess, PlantWeb,
Fisher, Micro Motion, Rosemount, Daniel, AMS™ Suite and DeltaV™ are
marks of Emerson Process Management. Other marks are the property
of their respective owners.
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