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CITY OF BOULDER Utilizing Instrumentation Technology and SCADA to Improve Solids Flow at the Presented By: Leigh Rickert, Maintenance Supervisor Scott Kennedy, Inst./Control Technician

Liquid Stream Flow Headworks Trickling Filters Solids Contact Secondary Clarification Primary Clarification CL2 & Liquid Stream Effluent 17.5 MGD Average NTF Tower (20% of Flow)

Primary Clarification Secondary Clarification Gravity Thickeners Anaerobic Digester Complex Solids Stream Flow 5 Dry Ton Per Day

Solids Stream Flow Anaerobic Digester Complex Co-Generation Two 1.25 MG Digesters Solids Processing by Centrifuges Two 0.5 MG Thickened Biosolids Storage Tanks

Semi-Dewatered Biosolids Recycling by Land Application CITY OF BOULDER

Gravity Thickener #2 Doppler Sensor Heads Doppler Flow Meter Gravity Thickener / Primary Pump Station Rotary Lobe Pump

Primary Pump SCADA Monitoring / Control

Date of Sensor Installation CITY OF BOULDER

Gravity Thickener #1 Blanket Level Sensor 4-Channel Controller Transducer Head CITY OF BOULDER

Gravity Thickeners Transfer Pump Station Thickened Transfer Sludge Flow

Transfer Pump SCADA Control Screen

Gravity Thickener SCADA Monitoring

Gravity Thickener Control Screen

Process Control System Hardware GE Fanuc Automation GENIUS I/O System 90/70 PLC, w/Ethernet Comm. CITY OF BOULDER

Process Control System SCADA Software Intellution FIX32 ver. 7.0 HMI/SCADA Developer - Future Plan Calls for Upgrade to iFix (Fix Dynamics) GE Fanuc Automation Cimplicity Machine Edition Ladder Logic Programming Professional Edition, ver.3.0

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