Articles & News on Water & Wastewater

Foxboro Evo System Features Multiprocessor Controller

  • November 22, 2013
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Editor Foxboro has dramatically stepped up the power of their controller with the Foxboro Evo process automation system introduction. This controller is a great example of the new breed of controllers that leverages the latest technology.

VRTX uses Netbiter to remotely monitor water treatment systems

  • November 22, 2013
  • Case Study

In this video case study, Carl Steffen, Engineering Services Manager at VRTX Technologies, San Antonio, TX, explains how they use Netbiter to remotely monitor their water treatment systems.

Yorkshire Water installs 450 Chlorine Monitors

  • November 18, 2013
  • Case Study

Free chlorine monitors from Analytical Technology overcome the traditional issues associated with buffered amperometric monitors, such as manhandling 25 litre containers of buffer around sites.

New Approach for Shortening Schedules and Minimizing Risk on Automation Projects

  • October 23, 2013
  • Feature

By Paul Hodge & Joe Bastone, Honeywell The advantages of optimized project workflow can be realized at both ends of the project schedule. The benefits are essential to ensuring control systems pose the least risk to project schedule and allow for safe, efficient and reliable plant startup and operation.

ISA Water/Wastewater Symposium issues Call for Abstracts

  • October 17, 2013
  • News

The symposium will be held 5-7 August 2014 and covers how instrumentation, SCADA and automatic control are vital to the treatment and distribution of water and wastewater.

Water & Wastewater industry cyber attacks increasing

  • October 14, 2013
  • News

The transportation and water and waste water industry sectors have both experienced large increases in the number of reported cybersecurity incidents in recent years, up 160% and 60% respectively.

Yokogawa to Supply Monitoring System for water pipeline

  • October 9, 2013
  • News

Yokogawa will supply a SCADA monitoring system for a large water distribution pipeline that the Saline Water Conversion Corporation is building in Saudi Arabia between the cities of Yanbu and Medina.

Emerson acquires Enardo

  • October 4, 2013
  • News

Enardo offers safety and environmental control equipment for the oil and gas, petrochemical, wastewater, refining and other industries.

Improving Processes by using Sequential Empirical Optimization (SEO)

  • September 13, 2013
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Editor The ability to improve manufacturing operations is growing with the application of software that can leverage lower cost computing. More than 30 years ago, ULTRAMAX Corporation commercialized an interesting software product to optimize the operating performance of industrial processes. I recently caught up with the Founder and CEO to learn more about the product and their philosophy and perspective of industrial process optimization.

Endress+Hauser expands US production

  • September 12, 2013
  • News

Endress+Hauser invests 40 million dollars in new plants in expanding its plants for flow, level and pressure measurement engineering in Greenwood, Indiana.