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Global insurance company Hiscox has partnered with smart water leak alarm provider LeakBot to provide leak detection systems to customers.
The partnership, which should help protect homes from water damage in the event of a leak, will make Hiscox the first insurer in the UK to offer a free LeakBot to all new and existing buildings insurance customers.
With the average cost of damage caused…
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Pumps
Northern Ireland Water (NI Water) has completed a £1.6 million (€1.9 million) upgrade of the Ballinagard Water Pumping Station, as part of the utility’s Water Pumping Station Improvement Programme.
Pumps and control panels at the station were upgraded to provide greater robustness and efficiency to enable water to be pumped to the local Croppy Hill Reservoir, near Londonderry in Northern…
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Amazon Filters has strengthened its SupaSpun and SupaGard meltblown filter range with the additional option of KilBac technology.
Produced using a unique manufacturing process, the new SupaSpun KilBac® and SupaGard Kilbac® filters harness the latest innovation in high-performance antimicrobial and anti-algal additives.
KilBac’s meltblown fibre construction is designed to prevent biofilm…
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Pipelines
American Water subsidiary West Virginia American Water has completed its acquisition of the Town of Glasgow water system, located in Kanawha County in the US state of West Virginia.
The deal follows part emergency help form the company in the form of leak detection and system repairs for the distressed utility, which has historically experienced water loss of around 66%.
The Town of…
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Flowmeters
Great Plains Industries (GPI) has revealed that its FLOMEC® QS200 Insertion Ultrasonic Flowmeter helped save the University of Tennessee significant water and landscape maintenance costs.
The QS200 is designed to support commercial irrigation applications and measures flow rates five times lower than current flow sensors on the market, as low as 0.22 gallons per minute. Additionally, it…
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Pumps
A new digital tool developed by BHR Group is being used by water utilities to analyse their sludge pumping systems and reduce costs.
The software, known as SLOT 2.0, is able to calculate sludge flow properties and behaviours, as well as frictional pipe pressure losses and system curves. It can also identify the most effective pumps to use on any system, selecting the optimal size, type,…
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Pipelines
Satellite data analytics proveder Rezatec has partnered with MeterSYS, a smart cities solutions provider in the water market, to provide utilities with advanced, high-tech solutions across the US.
The solutions will include Rezatec’s pipeline risk assessment tool, which combines satellite data with machine learning techniques to produce likelihood and consequence of failure risk maps,…
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Pipelines
A review of UK Water Industry Research’s (UKWIR) National Failure Database (NFD) for pipe assets is being carried out by Servelec Technologies.
The work will examine the business case for continuing development and support of the NFD, which benchmarks failure rates for water distribution mains and sewers in the UK and Ireland.
Data relating to characteristics such as pipe diameter and…
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Pumps
KSB Group has dispatched a boiler feed pump with reportedly the largest drive rating in the world, to be used in a coal-fired power plant currently under construction in Huaibei, China.
The supercritical power station Pingshan II is using a new technology that is expected to reach an efficiency of almost 50% at a unit output of 1,350MW.
The developers designed the CHTD 11 boiler feed pump…
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Pipelines
UK utility Anglian Water has commenced a trial using fibre optic cables to detect leaks in the provider’s water pipe network.
In partnership with Kier, a leading provider of construction and infrastructure services, and CRALEY Group, the new trial builds on Anglian Water’s innovation in next generation leakage engineering.
CRALEY Group’s iSMTM technology is being trialled on a model…
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Level Monitors
Endress+Hauser has released two new point level instruments – Liquiphant FTL51B and FTL41 – which are vibrating fork, or vibronic, level instruments.
The FTL51B features Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things capabilities, including access via wireless Bluetooth technology, automatic proof tests and verification and easy commissioning via a mobile device.
The Liquiphant FTL51B…
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Pipelines
UK utility Yorkshire Water, in collaboration with Inflowmatix, has launched a new project as part of its increasing investment into smart networks, which the company hopes will play a key part in reducing water leakage across its network.
The two-year project will see 650 InflowSense devices fitted across Yorkshire County, which will analyse pressure transients at 128 sample points per second.…
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Flowmeters
SJW Group subsidiary San Jose Water has filed an application with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in the US state of California to deploy advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) throughout its service area.
AMI technology includes advanced meters that can take up to hourly readings every day, along with a data transmission system to provide water usage information to customers…
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Other
By sharing data with wastewater treatment equipment providers, UK water companies can support the design, build and operation of their own plants, as well as reduce costs and drive innovation.
According to WPL’s technical director Andrew Baird, through closer collaboration utilities can get even more from their suppliers.
For example, by having sight of specific site data ahead of a…
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Pumps
Cheshire, UK-nased Chemical Support Systems (CCS), which designs, manufactures, installs and commissions chemical dosing systems, has selected Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology’s (WMFTG) Qdos pumps for polymer dosing in wastewater treatment applications.
According to the company, this usage is expected to increase, as more effort is made to reduce the presence of phosphorus wastewater, which…
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Pumps
Water technology company Xylem has expanded its pump portfolio to include industrial-strength product lines capable of handling critical industrial challenges.
The new large capacity vertical turbine, multistage ring section and double suction centrifugal pumps solve water and fluid management intensive applications, according to a statement from the company.
The new pumps – the e-MP…
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Valves
Water utility provider SA Water has turned to Bluetooth technology as part of a process to improve water services in South Australia.
The technology connects with a hands-free extendable arm to remotely open and shut water main valves through a process known as ‘exercising’, which is essential to ensuring the drinking water supply network is operating as normal.
According to Mark…
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Pipelines
A major new water supply scheme in Cumbria, the UK, has received a prestigious engineering award for its innovative approach.
United Utilities, in collaboration with its contract partners Farrans Roadbridge JV and Ward and Burke Construction, won the Tunnelling Project of the Year at the New Civil Engineer Awards, in the up to £50 million (€58.6 million) category.
“We’re immensely…
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