UK Wastewater Treatment Plant

Electrical Safety for Water and Wastewater Facilities

Continuous Electrical Monitoring Solutions for Water and Wastewater facilities

The UK water industry processes over 15 million litres of water daily and delivers it to nearly every household nationwide.  Sewage treatment plants play a crucial role in maintaining the health and safety of the population and are pivotal to protecting public health and the environment.  By implementing continuous monitoring solutions on electrical applications such as pumps, aerators, valves, and flow meters, water treatment plants can receive prior warning of potential faults that may disrupt their critical operations.  

Benefits

The permanent monitoring of electrical systems in water and sewage treatment plants has many advantages that protect this critical infrastructure to optimise productivity, reliability, and efficiency. These include:

  • Permanent monitoring for insulation faults/fault currents instead of periodic inspections  
  • Early detection of insulation faults in any connected equipment 
  • Quick and accurate location of insulation faults 
  • Conduct measurement readings without shutting down systems or their components 
  • Reduce downtime and keep operations running by reducing unplanned maintenance 
  • Ensure complete visibility into the condition of the electrical installation 

Reduced downtime
Early fault detection and remote diagnostics minimise the need for shutdowns, enhancing operational availability.

Cost savings
The ability to plan maintenance activities reduces the financial impact of unexpected repairs and service visits.

Increased safety
Continuous monitoring and early fault detection significantly lower the fire risk and improve the installations' overall safety.

Replace periodic inspections
Residual current monitoring (RCM) satisfies the BS7671 standard, which permits RCM to replace periodic insulation resistance testing.

Downloads

NameCategorySizeLanguageTimestampD-/B-Number
Power Quality/Measuring and monitoring relays Product Overviews 2.7 MB EN2022/05/2525.05.2022
Product Overview ISOMETER®/ISOSCAN® Product Overviews 5.3 MB EN2024/02/1616.02.2024
Product Overview - Residual Current Monitoring Product Overviews 6.3 MB EN2024/10/2929.10.2024
POWERSCOUT® Product Brochures 3.1 MB EN2023/12/1919.12.2023

Products

Insulation monitoring

ISOMETER® iso685…
ISOMETER® iso685…

Insulation monitoring device for inverter applications and large industrial plants

ISOMETER® IR420-D4
ISOMETER® IR420-D4

Insulation monitoring device for unearthed AC control circuits

Insulation fault location

ISOSCAN® EDS440
ISOSCAN® EDS440

Insulation fault locator for localisation of insulation faults in main circuits

Residual current monitoring

LINETRAXX® RCMS460-D
LINETRAXX® RCMS460-D

Multichannel AC, pulsed DC and AC/DC sensitive residual current monitor

RCMB13x
RCMB130 series

AC/DC sensitive residual current monitoring module for measuring AC and DC currents up to ±100 mA

LINETRAXX® RCMS150
LINETRAXX® RCMS150 series

AC/DC sensitive residual current monitor (type B) with 6 integrated measuring current transformers

Power Quality

LINETRAXX® PEM353

Universal measuring device with numerous measured quantities, energy and power measurement with storage, Power Quality Monitoring, limit value monitoring with alarm forwarding

Communication

COMTRAXX® COM465IP

Condition Monitor with an integrated gateway for the connection of Bender devices to Ethernet-TCP/IP networks

COMTRAXX® CP9xx-I Serie
COMTRAXX® CP9…-I series

Condition monitor with display and an integrated gateway

Insulation monitoring

ISOMETER® iso685…
ISOMETER® iso685…

Insulation monitoring device for inverter applications and large industrial plants

Details
ISOMETER® IR420-D4
ISOMETER® IR420-D4

Insulation monitoring device for unearthed AC control circuits

Details

Insulation fault location

ISOSCAN® EDS440
ISOSCAN® EDS440

Insulation fault locator for localisation of insulation faults in main circuits

Details

Residual current monitoring

LINETRAXX® RCMS460-D
LINETRAXX® RCMS460-D

Multichannel AC, pulsed DC and AC/DC sensitive residual current monitor

Details
RCMB13x
RCMB130 series

AC/DC sensitive residual current monitoring module for measuring AC and DC currents up to ±100 mA

Details
LINETRAXX® RCMS150
LINETRAXX® RCMS150 series

AC/DC sensitive residual current monitor (type B) with 6 integrated measuring current transformers

Details

Power Quality

LINETRAXX® PEM353

Universal measuring device with numerous measured quantities, energy and power measurement with storage, Power Quality Monitoring, limit value monitoring with alarm forwarding

Details

Communication

COMTRAXX® COM465IP

Condition Monitor with an integrated gateway for the connection of Bender devices to Ethernet-TCP/IP networks

Details
COMTRAXX® CP9xx-I Serie
COMTRAXX® CP9…-I series

Condition monitor with display and an integrated gateway

Details