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Smart Water Utilities- a journey of transformation
Pernille Ingildsen, Ph.D., M.Sc.
The 13th IWA Leading Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies 16/6-2016
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AgendaWhy do we need water utilities to get smart?How can water utilities become smarter?What inventions are on the wish list?
“We are the last generation that can fight climate change. We have a duty to act.”
Ban Ki-Moon
“The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.”
Richard Attenborough
Our key challenge is water sustainability
Water sustainability is an issue everywhere
Men and women, everywhere and at all times, have despoiled the environment, mostly out of simple ignorance.
Modernity’s ignorance about the environment is much more serious, simply because modernity has many more powerful means to destroy the environment.
Tribal ignorance, on the other hand, was usually milder; but ignorance is ignorance, and is certainly nothing to emulate.
Ken Wilber
Ignorance is ignorance
SmartWater Utilities
AgendaWhy do we need water utilities to get smart?How can water utilities become smarter?What technology is on wish list?
The Smart Water Utility Project
Professor Gustaf Olsson,
Lund universityIndustrial Electrical Engineering and Automation Sweden
Manager of plans and projects Pernille Ingildsen
Kalundborg Utility, Denmark
Theoretically, no limits can be set to the field of consciousness, since it is capable of indefinite extension. Empirically however, it always finds its limit when it comes up against the unknown.
Carl Gustaf Jung
M Measure
A Analyse
D Decide
Sensors, laboratory analysis, observations, …
Signal analysis, statistical analysis, dynamic models, business cases, …
Decisions everywhere from strategy to controllers …
The MAD-model
Strategic Direction, objectives, values
Tactical Development of system, project plans, project execution
Operational Plant wide control, process optimisation, maintenance
Automatic Process control, unit control
Unplanned Unplanned events, risk assessment, emergency plans
Decision levels
Consumers/customers (short term)
Lead objectives
Community (longer term) Environment/nature (long term)
Water extraction Water treatment
Water resource
Water recipient
Water distribution
Water usage
Return of water Wastewater treatment
Wastewater collection
Nature Water utility Community
Ecology
Real Time Monitoring of Ganges River Basin during Kumbh Mela ceremonyBy J. Raich-Montiu; F. Edthofer; R. Wurm; A. Weingartner, S::CAN
A glimpse into smart water dataBy Jo Cooper, Intellitect
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The risk of NOT measuringBy Nenibarini Zabbey, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Understanding Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs)By Nurudeen Adeyinka Salau, Kalundborg Forsyning
Lessons learnt from implementing ammonium controllers at three full-scale plantsLinda Åmand, IVL. Sweden
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BASIC INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED
Strategic• No strategic direction. • No top level goals or priorities
defined.
• Goals and priorities are well defined • Strategic direction is clear• Translated into objectives• Clear understanding in organisation
Tactical• Improvements are done haphazardly• Projects are ill defined
• There is a plan• Projects are performed satisfactoriy
• Project plan aligned with direction• Clear succes criteria in projects• More conceptual solutions are evaluated
Operational• Processes are not monitored closely• Processes are not optimised• High risk of failures
• Skilled operators and managers ensure a safe operation
• Problems are solved expediently
• A clear system for all operational objectives. • Any deviation is handled fast• Understanding of roboustness and resilience
Automatic• Process control are generally not
applied except for the very low level• Realtime controllers implemented• Control-competent staff is not in place. • Many controllers are not well tuned.
• Sensors, sensors everywhere• Processes are well controlled• An effective early warning system• Control-competent staff in place
Unplanned• No/few sensors for unplanned events• No strategies for unplanned events
• Plans are in place to handle critical unplanned events
• Sensors in place to detect critical events• Information avaliable for handling critical
events• Plans for handling critical events
Advances in decision making capability
AgendaWhy do we need water utilities to get smart?How can water utilities become smarter?What inventions are on the wish list?
To measure the ecological state of the local nature online
To measure microbiology in drinking water in real-time
To measure and understand micropollutants in wastewater
Top 3 wish-list for MEASURING
Easy non-expert dynamic simulations
Asset Management for optimal refurbishment
Natural Capital Accounting (NCA)
Top 3 wish-list for ANALYSIS
Sustainable leadership
360 degree design decisions
Water Circle Management
Top 3 wish-list for DECISION
Water is life Let’s treat it wisely
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