Wastewater treatment Treat wastewater in an energy-efficient and resource-saving manner with comprehensive automation solutions – in new constructions and existing wastewater treatment plants.

Aerial photo of a wastewater treatment plant
Specialist personnel at the final purification tank

Automation solutions for sustainable wastewater management

Wastewater disposal makes an important contribution to the protection of our habitat, because water pollution endangers people and nature. Treating wastewater efficiently and reusing it several times saves resources and also has many economic advantages.

As a future-oriented solution provider for the wastewater industry, responsible use of the natural resource of water is very important to us. Treating wastewater sustainably requires particularly efficient wastewater treatment plants that meet all legal requirements related to water. Together with you, we develop automation solutions for sustainable wastewater management. Our team of experts will help with your plant engineering – whether for a new construction or for optimizing existing wastewater plants.

Interactive image map: Trades in wastewater treatment
Inflow metering
Ensure on-demand inflow into the wastewater treatment plant with control solutions for inflow structures, stormwater relief systems, and pumping stations.
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Inflow metering
Mechanical precleaning
Phoenix Contact provides control solutions, intrinsically safe input and output modules, communication solutions, and software libraries that meet the high demands of the precleaning stage.
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Mechanical precleaning
Biological treatment
The precise control of process variables is a prerequisite for an optimum wastewater cleaning process. Phoenix Contact develops special software libraries for controlling and monitoring wastewater technology.
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Biological treatment
Final sedimentation
Communication between the trades and field devices all the way to the control level ensures ongoing testing of quality of the water in the final sedimentation process. Solutions from Phoenix Contact ensure uninterrupted operation.
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Final sedimentation
Sludge treatment
Efficiency, transparency, and process reliability are top priorities in the sewage sludge drying process. Optimum sludge management requires reliable control of the digestion tower and sludge pump.
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Sludge treatment

Contact

Fabian Pasimeni
Fabian Pasimeni
Global Industry Manager Urban Infrastructure
I would be happy to support you in making your systems and processes more transparent and helping you save more resources.

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EW Wasser GmbH provides approx. 5.8 million liters of drinking water for around 45,500 people. In addition, wastewater disposal is organized for 72,000 inhabitants, with a total of 894 km of sewerage system being operated. Electronic circuit breakers provide safe and reliable protection against overload and short-circuit currents. At EW Wasser GmbH, they not only bring more transparency to the system, but also ensure reliable and effective supply.

Why our wastewater industry customers choose Phoenix Contact

A holistic system – that’s what the employees responsible for modernizing the Konstanz wastewater treatment plant wanted. To conveniently integrate areas that are difficult to access, innovative technology, including wireless solutions, is now being used.