Applications and solutions – water and wastewater treatment
Efficient processes for your system
Phoenix Contact offers sophisticated system solutions for water supply and wastewater treatment.
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Wastewater treatment
Phoenix Contact provides redundant control technology and solutions for monitoring field devices from the sewerage system to biology.
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Drinking water supply
Phoenix Contact offers a comprehensive system to ensure reliable water treatment, storage, and distribution.
With a team that is networked across the world and collaborations with industry partners, Phoenix Contact is your reliable partner for water and wastewater treatment. Phoenix Contact develops its own automation, communication, and remote control technologies for all forms of water treatment plants and wastewater treatment plants. Phoenix Contact provides solutions for all levels of the plant – from the control room, through the network and control level, all the way to the field devices and machines. Our customer-specific and ready-to-use solutions are based on an open system and open interfaces that guarantee future-readiness.
Holistic engineering, industry-specific training programs, and on-site services in every phase ensure the success of our customers’ projects.
Service portfolio
Learn more about our range of automation technology services for water and wastewater treatment here:
Automation solutions
Phoenix Contact develops ready-to-use solutions explicitly for use in drinking water and wastewater applications. The range covers connection-ready control cabinets right through to easy-to-install software.
Transmission technology
Phoenix Contact provides a broad range of communication solutions. Various hardware solutions such as routers, switches, and gateways, as well as all common transmission protocols such as Modbus, PROFINET, OPC UA, etc., facilitate reliable and secure communication.
IT security
Critical infrastructures place particularly high demands on the availability and security of your plants. Interruptions to communication can result in expensive or even safety-related consequences. With our security concepts, you can protect your plant from unauthorized access and identify anomalies in your network in good time.
Cloud solutions
Cloud-based solutions allow plant parts to be networked easily and securely over the Internet. This opens up unlimited opportunities for the continuous transmission of process data and the inclusion of external information. Benefit from a mobile status monitoring and control system for your plant.
Energy efficiency
Energy efficiency is a key factor for cost-effectiveness and resource conservation. Our innovative measuring devices reduce the time and effort for energy data acquisition. Furthermore, preprogrammed function blocks simplify the integration of new devices. You can access your energy data easily from anywhere.
Control technology
The efficiency and reliability of a plant largely depends on the process and control technology. From the field device all the way to the control system, the broad range of Phoenix Contact products provides a variety of solutions for increasing system availability and the consistent transmission of relevant process information.
Control room integration
With our reliable and, above all, secure solutions, you can ensure the continuous transmission of data to and from the control room. Standardized automation protocols and modern transmission systems ensure the seamless integration of all plant parts into the SCADA system.
Redundancy
Increase the availability of your plants, thus guaranteeing operational safety. In critical processes such as water treatment in particular, comprehensive redundancy concepts help to keep downtimes to a minimum and protect the process.
Predictive maintenance
Compared to periodic maintenance, predictive maintenance of plants and systems reduces expensive outages due to plant downtimes. Minimize your maintenance and repair expenditures and effort with status-based machine and plant monitoring.
Engineering
Every plant has its own special requirements. To satisfy these requirements, we provide you with tailor-made engineering solutions, from the control cabinet all the way to the visualization of your software.
Remote control technology
The transmission of data across large distances facilitates the analysis and control of distributed plants and utilities. Along with our wireless systems and modems, we also provide software libraries for the IEC 60870-5-101/104 and DNP3 remote control protocols.
System availability
An uninterruptible power supply, secure data connections, and explosion protection safeguard electrical systems, installations, and devices. We provide solutions that satisfy the high demands on safety and security.
Internet of Things (IoT)
In modern treatment plants, it is not just water that flows; there is also a stream of large volumes of data. Data is created in all utilities – both central and decentral – within the plant. The multitude of installed sensors and machines allow for a new level of transparency. The challenge lies in presenting the digital information in a meaningful format and linking the resulting complexity of the various volumes of data together logically.
With our many years of experience, Phoenix Contact will accompany you through the transition into the digital age. We provide solutions for networking components, plant parts, and people together. Internet of Things structures open up the opportunity for storing and processing information in an external computer network. As an aid to process optimization, external data, such as precipitation forecasts, is included using IoT applications. Moreover, the plant can be accessed from anywhere at anytime. IoT structures, the associated computer power, and services will allow water management plants to operate more efficiently and conserve more resources in the future.
System overview
Technical systems in water management are categorized into infrastructure areas that differ fundamentally in their requirements. While structures installed centrally are designed for fast fieldbuses with high data rates, decentral structures and stations are reached via wireless transmission with a low data bandwidth and via remote control protocols. All relevant data is routed to the control center, where it is visualized and processed. Phoenix Contact provides tailor-made components and solutions to meet the demands of a holistic system, despite the complex requirements.
Protocol conversion
Integrated data processing demands that the automation technology, which uses different communication protocols and transmission media, is compatible.
The illustration shows the communication interfaces via which a component can be addressed, as well as the protocols which can be used to communicate at the field level.
Protocol conversion
Field controller
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Field I/O
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PHOENIX CONTACT (Ireland) Ltd
Calmount Park
Ballymount
Dublin 12
D12 XE18
Ireland
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