Environmental Technologies: Endress+Hauser presents solutions for sustainable water management at IFAT Munich 2024

Installation of Flood Early Warning System Floodlight (Image source: Endress+Hauser)

From Digitalization to Recycling, Drinking Water Supply, and Municipal Technology – IFAT 2024 in Munich showcases innovative solutions demonstrating how municipalities, the environmental technology industry, and waste management can jointly advance the expansion of climate resilience. As a partner of the process industry, Endress+Hauser supports municipalities, industry, planners, and plant builders in managing the effects of climate change. At the trade fair (booths 451/550), the company will present measurement technology solutions and services for managing water and wastewater facilities, as well as sustainable water management and supply from May 13 to 17, 2024.

Whether heavy rain, flooding, heat, or water shortages – the impacts of global warming have become more apparent in recent years. Societal actors such as politics, cities, communities, and municipalities are just as much in demand as companies to utilize their options for shaping and reducing climate impact.

“Measurement technology is a key technology in managing the energy transition and fighting climate change,” says Christian Gutknecht, Industry Manager at Endress+Hauser. A focus area is water: “From flood protection to water reuse, energy monitoring, and the sustainable management of the entire water cycle – with our portfolio, we optimize processes and contribute to the protection and preservation of water.”

As a full-service provider for clarifier and waterworks, Endress+Hauser’s measurement technology is used in controlling and monitoring wastewater treatment processes, plant operation, and flood monitoring. “At the trade fair, we will showcase a range of applications in drinking water, water, and sludge treatment that enable municipalities to establish intelligent water management and ensure resource and water body protection.”

Flood Early Warning System with Artificial Intelligence

Netilion Flood Monitoring enables local and early flood warnings. The flood early warning system provides valuable decision support for mayors, fire brigades, or the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) through monitoring entire area reactions. Based on locally collected data from level sensors, rain and soil moisture sensors, and by linking this data with weather forecasts and terrain condition information via artificial intelligence, the situation can be precisely assessed: Netilion Flood Monitoring is in use in the municipality of Lenzkirch in the Black Forest, where a dozen sensors continuously report water levels across the area and feed data into the flood warning AI.

Higher Energy Efficiency in Wastewater Treatment Plants

The energy consumption in wastewater disposal is high: within a municipality, wastewater treatment plants are often the largest single consumers of electricity. To optimize electricity use, recording all power flows and consumption is necessary. Using special recording devices (Memograph, Ecograph) from Endress+Hauser, the power consumption of each individual unit can be recorded, and the data visualized and automatically collected and processed using wastewater software.

Continuous drinking water monitoring is provided by Endress+Hauser’s analysis panels, which continuously measure relevant parameters such as temperature, conductivity, pH, turbidity, and SAK in both raw water and treated drinking water. All measurements and calibrations of these parameters are integrated into a single transmitter. These analysis panels are used, for example, to monitor drinking water treatment at the Lake Waterworks Frasnacht.

Selected Products to be showcased at the trade fair:

The microwave sludge density meter Teqwave MW ensures sludge treatment through highly accurate concentration measurement and reduces operating costs by monitoring multiple parameters simultaneously.

With the help of the Memosens Wave CAS80E spectrometer (liquid analysis), many standard parameters for water and wastewater monitoring can be analyzed: It measures a specific selection of parameters such as SAK254, TOCeq, CSBeq, BSBeq, turbidity (TU/TSS), nitrate (NO3-N), and the APHA Hazen color number, providing uninterrupted real-time measurements.

For demanding water and wastewater applications such as measuring industrial or municipal water and wastewater, magnetic-inductive flow meters from the Promag product line are used. Tight installation conditions, such as narrow shafts, can be addressed with the Promag W 0DN.