Aquatis is participating in the WaterRA 1075 project on the Optimisation of Existing Instrumentation to Achieve Better Process Performance
The water industry recognises the growing need for online instrumentation in a number of business areas. The current challenge for the water industry is to better manage established online instrumentation that is fundamental to monitoring and verifying the performance of wastewater and water – treatment processes, sewer systems, drinking water catchments and water distribution systems. The aim of this proposed project is to assist the water industry to 1) improve utilisation and performance of online instrumentation and 2) reduce the life cycle costs. The project team has complementary skills in different disciplinary areas to work in this online monitoring and data management space to approach these issues with a holistic view. The project will utilise information from the literature, including research completed by the CRCWQ&T/WaterRA, experience gained by recent trials / in-house case studies conducted by industry partners, treatment system performance data, new outcomes from current research projects such as the WERF/GWRC, “Guidance on sensors in the global water industry” and outcomes from earlier workshops. The project scope does not, however, allow for the generation of new data within the allocated project fund. The collected information will be used to investigate an effective framework for data integrity assurance, improving process performance with a computational module for smart decision making. The project deliverables will include 1) a guidance manual for online monitoring to achieve better process performance for the Australian water industry; 2) inclusion of a prototype package of operational tools to enhance online data management and quality assurance of analytical measurement; 3) industry knowledge sharing of how a successful business case can be built; and 4) identification of knowledge gaps and deliver an action plan for future project development.
In collaboration with AWQC, UniSA – CWM, National Measurement Institute (NMI – Australian Government Department of Industry), UNSW, AECOM, SA Water, Water Corporation, Sydney Water, Sydney Catchment Authority, TasWater, Central Highland Water, Allwater, DCM Process Control, HACH, Gwater, AWA