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Ives Equipment and Siemens: Bringing Together the Best People and Products


Ives Equipment Corporation has serviced the industries of eastern and central Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, metro NY, Washington D.C., and Virginia with the most advanced process automation equipment and services for nearly 70 years.

Our quality personnel, who are highly trained and experienced, are the key to Ives' success. They are passionate about discovering the best solutions to our clients' control challenges. Outside Sales Engineers are always ready to visit with you at your plant to address your control issues. Because of our local presence, our personnel can interact swiftly and affordably with you, saving you money, time, and travel to distant production locations. 

Our clients gain as a result of Ives Equipment's commitment to excellence. We optimize your operations and production uptime with the most dependable product built to suit your control demands.

Siemens' extensive automation portfolio expedites digitalization's advantages for today's process applications. Their control products handle today's problems with tomorrow's technologies for the manufacturing, process, and commercial industries. Through innovation, speed, and adaptability, Siemens enables its clients to remain competitive and ahead of growing demand. Their control devices have built-in intelligence, connection, and remote diagnostics. Customers benefit from increased operational efficiency, visibility, dependability, and adaptability.

Municipal Wastewater Treatment: A Lighter Look

municipal wastewater treatment plant
While Disney-Pixar’s film Finding Nemo tells a fantastic story involving a father fish, his son, and the ocean, Nemo’s lucky that the plot of the film didn’t involve him being flushed down a toilet in a suburban home. If it had, Nemo would’ve undergone a crucial Odyssey before even reaching a river: he would’ve journeyed through a municipal wastewater treatment plant. While a jaunt through a municipal wastewater plant doesn’t sound as commercially attractive as adventuring through the ocean, the purity and quality of municipality waterways and their ecosystems depends on municipal wastewater plants’ implementation of standards through treatment, via an air-tight water purification process.

The goal of a municipal wastewater treatment plant is to act as a gateway between contaminated wastewater and the water sources where the wastewater eventually goes. For that reason, many wastewater treatment plants are built in low-lying areas, usually with easy to access to water sources, such as river. All the water which leaves the plant after processing, called the ‘effluent’, needs to meet a standardized level of quality. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that there are around 16,000 municipal treatment plants active in the U.S. today; all of them need to meet the same environmental requirements in terms of their treatment quality.

The primary treatment in the process utilized by municipal plants reduces solid objects and suspended solids in the water via a barrier – otherwise known as sedimentation. Nemo, unfortunately, probably wouldn’t’ve made it past here. The process aims to reduce the presence of solid objects, pathogenic (disease causing) bacteria, biodegradable organics (BOD’s), and excess nutrients found in the wastewater. Primary, or mechanical, treatment filters the solid objects, while secondary treatment focuses on biological elements of the water. According to the World Bank Group, 85% of BODs and associated solids are eliminated by the conclusion of secondary treatment, which correlates with the EPA’s standards and their emphasis on plants having thorough, precise, and controlled secondary treatment systems. Tertiary treatment systems are becoming more popular in plants, as the advancement of technology leads to an even more robust cleanliness demand. Especially at the tertiary level, valves are essential because computer-based instrumentation can open, close, and/or partially close valves to ensure that purification is correlating with process control.

The process controllers use level and pressure measurement instruments to evaluate the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the wastewater. The pressure and level sensors indicate that the treatment systems are functioning properly, but also that the water moves from station to station in the plant with the most efficiency and care. If the instrumentation being monitored by plant employees is incorrect, a glitch in the system could lead to a decrease in the quality of the effluent water, resulting in damage to the environment. The process technology and its controllers must be both automatically and manually sound, because reliable operators need a reliable system to produce a top-quality result.

Sorry, Nemo, the sequel isn’t taking place in a municipality anytime soon!