AUMA Electric Actuators for Critical Flow Control, Safety, and Security in the Water Industry

Potable water production, distribution, sewage treatment, and disposal are core tasks of modern water management. Drinking water abstraction, distribution, sewage disposal, and purification are fundamental prerequisites for infrastructure development. Security of supply is crucial for the modern water industry, and valves and actuators play a critical role in water management.

From individual actuators for municipal sewage treatment plants to major projects combining several hundreds of units, from the small butterfly valves and ball valves to weirs several meters high, valve actuators provide critical flow control, environmental protection, and safety.

Electric actuators are the well-established standard in the water industry.  Piping of different lengths and nominal diameters with many valve types must be automated. Electric actuators are also widely used in steel construction operating weirs and sluice gates for water systems.  Decades of developments in multi-turn, part-turn, linear actuators, valve communications, corrosion protection, and service life implanted electric actuators as the water industry standard.

AUMA, a leader in the long-term development of actuators for the water industry, earned themselves an excellent reputation by meeting the unique challenges and finding the perfect water management and treatment solutions. The AUMA brand is a synonym for long service life and ruggedness. AUMA provides solutions for all customer demands. Their modular products, control technology, and integration into established PLC control concepts or the latest Fieldbus technology are easy to retrofit in an existing installation when upgrading with modern actuation.

For more information about AUMA Actuators for the water industry in Florida, contact Instrument Specialties. Call them at 407-324-7800 or visit https://isisales.com.

AUMA Electric Actuators for the Water Industry

Clean water is the basis of all life. Potable water production and distribution, sewage treatment, and disposal are core tasks of modern water management.

AUMA electric actuators ensure dependable valve automation in these areas of water, wastewater treatment, and municipal water facilities:

• Sewage Treatment Plants
• Water Treatment Plants
• Drinking Water Distribution
• Sewage Disposal
• Sea Water Desalination
• Irrigation Systems
• Civil Engineering Constructions for Water Applications (Sluice Gates, Weirs, Dams)

AUMA actuators earned an excellent reputation by meeting the particular challenges and finding the perfect solutions in the water industry. Today, the AUMA brand is a synonym for long service life and ruggedness. For several decades, AUMA actuators have provided reliable and efficient service worldwide while requiring very minimal maintenance.

From individual actuators for municipal sewage treatment plants to major projects combining several hundreds of units, from the small butterfly valves, to ball valves, to weirs several meters high, AUMA solutions meet all customer demands.

AUMA modular products are easy to retrofit in an existing installation when upgrading with modern actuation and control technology.

Whether integration in established PLC control concepts or the latest Fieldbus technology, AUMA actuators guarantee adaptability into any control system design.

For more information about AUMA electric actuators for the water industry in Florida, contact Instrument Specialties. Call them at (407) 324-7800 or visit their website at https://isisales.com.

Actuator Advancements in the Water & Wastewater Industry

AUMA actuation solutions are used for open/close valve applications to divert flow to respond to the water treatment plant requirements and perform flow control duties to operate the valve. In modulating applications, the actuator precisely controls the flow to adjust the amount of medium passing through the valve into or out of the treatment plant.

AUMA has a long history as a leader in electric actuators for the water management and water treatment sectors. They maintain their leadership position through innovation and technological advancements. Here are a few examples:

Leading the Effort for Automation of Electric Actuators in Water & Water Treatment

• AUMA Cloud - Cost-Effective Asset Management and Condition-Based Predictive Maintenance
• AUMA Assistant App - Quick & Easy Setting, Comprehensive Diagnostics, Data Cloud Storage, Fast Support, Documents at Your Fingertips
• Electric Actuators for Continuous Underwater Use

VISIT THIS LINK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW AUMA IS ADVANCING ACTUATOR TECHNOLOGY IN THE WATER INDUSTRY

For more information about AUMA in the water, wastewater, and water treatment industry in Florida, contact Instrument Specialties. Call them at +1 407-324-7800 or visit their website at https://isisales.com.

Electric Actuators for the Water and Wastewater Industry

Drinking water abstraction and distribution and sewage disposal and purification are essential prerequisites for infrastructure development and security. As witnessed by recent events, the security of supply is crucial for the modern water industry.

AUMA is ubiquitous in the water industry due to its broad product portfolio, including multi-turn, part-turn, linear actuators, reliability, state-of-the-art communications, and security. In combination with high corrosion protection, they guarantee a long service life and low maintenance.

Because of this, you'll find AUMA electric actuators around the world in:

• Sewage treatment plants
• Water treatment plants
• Drinking water distribution
• Sewage disposal
• Seawater desalination

For more information about AUMA in the water, wastewater, and water treatment industry in Florida, contact Instrument Specialties. Call them at +1 407-324-7800 or visit their website at https://isisales.com.

Pinch Valves Play Vital Role at Modern Water Treatment Plant

Tampa Bay Water supplies wholesale drinking water to more than 2.5 million people in the Florida counties of Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas, and the cities of New Port Richey, St. Petersburg, and Tampa. The Tampa Bay Water Regional Water Treatment Facility, located in Clearwater, is considered one of the country's most modern water treatment facilities. This showcase water treatment facility is home to over 60 Onyx Valve pinch valves, which regulate everything from the precise flow of chemicals into the water to the water flow entering and exiting the facility.

Image courtesy of Onyx Valve.

Onyx Pinch Valves are relied upon for controlling the flow of disinfectants and water purifiers into the water system. These are critical applications that make it possible to deliver a high-quality drinking water supply to each of the homes in the city of Tampa Bay and surrounding suburbs.

Manually operated pinch valves and electrically (AUMA) operated pinch valves.
Images courtesy of Onyx Valve.

For more information about Onyx Valve in Florida, contact Instrument Specialties. Call them at 407-324-7800 or visit their website at https://isisales.com.

AUMA PROFOX - One Solution for Gate, Butterfly, Ball, Plug and Globe Valves

AUMA 's smart and lightweight PROFOX series is designed for applications requiring quick and precise positioning, maximum versatility and future-proof interfaces for all industries, including water treatment.

Programmed-in intelligence makes PROFOX ideal for open-close and modulating applications. The PROFOX includes adjustable motor speed, ensuring quick and precise positioning without overrun, soft-start and soft-stop functionality that improves valve life. PROFOX - compact actuators with intelligent functions – a platform concept for tailored automation solutions at three levels:

1. Valve - PROFOX is available as multi-turn, part-turn or linear actuator Wide performance range with just a few sizes
2. DCS - PROFOX masters a large variety of communication technologies and supports easy integration
3. Future-proof - PROFOX is optimally prepared to face the challenges of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Firmware upgrades allow adaptations to future requirements.

PROFOX-Q part-turn actuators

• Torques between 32 Nm and 600 Nm Range enhancement under development between 8 Nm and 1,000 Nm

PROFOX-M multi-turn actuators

• Torques between 10 Nm and 100 Nm Range enhancement under development between 4 Nm and 100 Nm

PROFOX-L linear actuators

• Under development Operating forces between 6 kN and 15 kN

For more information about AUMA PROFOX actuators for municipal water and wastewater use in Florida, contact Instrument Specialties, Inc. Call them at 407-324-7800 or visit their website at https://isisales.com.

AUMA Electric Actuators for Water Distribution and Wastewater Treatment

Drinking water abstraction and distribution, as well as sewage disposal and purification, are basic prerequisites for community infrastructure development. Security of supply is crucial for any modern water industry.

Piping of different lengths and nominal diameters must be automated with a multitude of valve types. From potable water production and distribution, to sewage treatment, to water treatment systems, AUMA actuators automate valves of any size and design. AUMA has been building electric actuators and valve gearboxes for over 50 years, and is one of the leading manufacturers in the water industry. AUMA is well implanted due to their broad product portfolio including multi-turn, part-turn, and linear actuators. In combination with high corrosion protection, they guarantee a long service life, low in maintenance.

For more information about AUMA electric actuators in water distribution and wastewater treatment, contact Instrument Specialties. Call them at 407-324-7800 or visit their site at https://isisales.com. 

Remote Actuator Controls Provide Safer, More Efficient Wastewater Treatment Application

Above ground wastewater actuator controls.

A wastewater treatment plant installed six new AUMA SAR electric actuators for modulating duty to control the dosing of chemical additives. These actuators are used for modulating duty to handle the high-precision dosing of short-chain fatty acids, used to support the growth of microorganisms and help to remove phosphorus from the wastewater. 

The actuators are situated below ground, with their AC actuator control systems mounted above the ground. This is done for both for both safety and convenience. This arrangement is made easy thanks to the modular design of AUMA actuators. AUMA actuator controls can be mounted up to 325 feet from the actual actuator (motor and gearbox).

When workers have to access equipment underground, it requires special safety needs and procedures. These include the use of qualified personnel and gas detection tests to ensure sufficient oxygen as well as to rule out flammable of explosive potentials. Locating the actuator controls above ground level, in combination with non-intrusive actuator versions, reduces underground work to a minimum, thus helping to save time and cost.

Below ground motors and gearboxes.

The split-level installation also provides diagnostic and local control from a more comfortable position. The graphical interface and all operational, data logging and diagnostic features provided by the intelligent AC actuator controls are easily accessible. These actuators also use Profibus DP-V1 to communicate with the plant’s main distributed control system. Local AUMA Service took care of installation and commissioning on site.

For more information, contact Instrument Specialties, Inc. by calling 407-324-7800 or visit their web site at http://isi.group.

AUMA Electric Actuators Now Support Industrial Ethernet

Ethernet enables computers to communicate over one network - in today's environment, communication between machines would not be feasible without it. First created in the 1970s and subsequently standardized as IEEE 802.3, Ethernet is the leading standard in office settings for data networks today.

"Industrial Ethernet" defines the improvements that allow Ethernet to be used in industrial automation, even for critical applications. Industrial Ethernet is Ethernet applied to an industrial environment, often requiring more robust connectors, wires, and, most importantly, better determinism. 

Industrial Ethernet (IE) is the use of Ethernet with protocols that provide determinism and real-time control in an industrial setting. Factors such as high reliability, robust communication, and device exchange during running operation are crucial. Industrial Ethernet utilizes specific protocols in combination with Ethernet to accomplish improved determinism. These protocols are already widely available and for which integration into the DCS is straightforward. PROFINET^®, EtherNet/IP^®, EtherCAT^®, and Modbus TCP/IP,  are some of the most common.

Industrial Ethernet Topology with Electric Actuators

EtherNet/IP^® is an industrial network protocol that adapts to the Ethernet standard to the Common Industrial Protocol. EtherNet/IP^® is one of the USA's leading industrial protocols and is commonly used in a variety of sectors including factory, hybrid and process control.

Electric Actuators using Industrial Ethernet in a water
treatment plant (AUMA)

AUMA, a leading manufacturer of electric actuators, is continuing to invest in pioneering Industrial Ethernet communication and now offers an Ethernet/IP^® interface.

Ethernet/IP^® is the third Industrial Ethernet standard that AUMA supports, in addition to PROFINET^® and Modbus TCP/IP.

Ethernet/IP^® offers superior connectivity and enhanced network flexibility. With bandwidths up to 100 Mbit/s, AUMA actuators with Ethernet/IP provide reliable and rapid exchange of both cyclic process data and acyclic diagnostic data from the actuators.

Industrial Ethernet has many technical advantages:

• Transmission of real-time and IT data via a common medium
• Virtually unlimited number of participants and network expansion
• Flexible topologies which can easily be scaled and expanded
• Quick transmission even of extremely large data volumes
• Integration of web servers and IoT interfaces such as OPC UA within the device
• Simple access to field level device data without proprietary gateways
• Reliable in operation, no complex termination, simple maintenance
• Future proof

For more information, contact Instrument Specialties by visiting http://isi.group or by calling 407-324-7800.

Electric Actuators for the Water and Wastewater Industry

Drinking water abstraction and distribution, as well as sewage disposal and purification are basic prerequisites for infrastructure development. Security of supply is crucial for modern water industry. The need for automated valves in water and wastewater treatment are abundant, and there are many applications where electric actuators assist with the solution for the most demanding problems.

Common Water Facilities Requiring Electric Actuators:

• Sewage treatment plants
• Water treatment plants
• Drinking water distribution
• Sewage disposal
• Seawater desalination

AUMA's  broad product portfolio of multi-turn, part-turn, and linear actuators are well known and respected in the water industry worldwide due to their high corrosion protection, long service life, and low in maintenance.

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AUMA Authorized Service, Repair and Maintenance in Florida

AUMA is a world–renowned manufacturer of electric actuators for the municipal water and wastewater industry. Their electric actuators operate a wide variety of quarter-turn, multi-turn and linear valves.

Instrument Specialties, Inc. is the exclusive Auma Electric Actuator Municipal Sales and Service Representative in Florida.  We look forward to being your partner for the installation, commissioning, training, maintenance, overhaul or repair of your AUMA actuators.

Aside from sales, Instrument Specialties offers a broad scope of after-sales services for AUMA actuators including, consulting, assembly, spare parts, inspection, maintenance, modernization, onsite mounting, optimization and personnel training.

Advantages of Partnering with Instrument Specialties for all your AUMA Service:

• One partner for all AUMA service requirements.
• Local, prompt availability.
• OEM guaranteed spare parts.
• Service by fully trained and AUMA qualified technicians.
• Thorough record keeping.

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Applying Electric Valve Actuators: Needs Assessment

Electric valve actuator (AUMA)

Electric actuators can be found in all varieties of shapes and sizes in waste water treatment plants.  Since the valves to be automated vary in both design and dimension, size consideration and design through an early "needs assessment" is a critical component of the specification process.

Defined as an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service, engineers, during this step, will specify what the solution will accomplish, without describing how it will do it.  Specifications usually originate from either design constraints or functional requirements.

As part of the spec requirements and need assessment, these are a number of the questions that engineers should consider, as early in the process as possible, in assessing the needs for a valve actuator.

1. What sort of valve will be needed?  Does the process require linear control valves or rotary quarter turn valves?  This will define the appropriate type of actuator, as well.
2. What is the specification for the actuator sizing? The size will need to match the needed thrust and torque as well as the type of valve.  The efficient actuator, to ensure good valve control, can be neither oversized nor undersized.
3. What are the power requirements, e.g. how much energy will be needed to run the actuator?  Higher voltage actuators use more energy. Low power requirements mean that backup power is more economical.  In most settings, there is a need to save money by running as efficiently as possible, and there are also environmental sustainability hurdles. 
4. Operating Conditions:  Is there severe weather or will the actuator be under water? What is the range of temperatures expected? Keep in mind that not all actuators can work in all conditions.
5. Will the actuator need to run continuously or intermittently? Consider the variation needed in the process. Actuators that have continual modulation are more able to respond to variations in the control requests.
6. Consideration of environmental safety conditions.  What about dust or explosive gases?

Ultimately, the needs assessment will help guide the specification process, with the goal of ensuring how well the final product will perform.  It will pay off to be as detailed as possible during this phase.  Once a needs assessment is finalized, you will be in a better position to specify the right actuator to meet your process requirements.

For more information on specifying electric valve actuators, contact Instrument Specialties by calling 407-324-7800 or visit their web site at http://isi.group

AUMA Electric Actuators Models SA and SQ: Setting the Limit Switches

This video below explains how to set the internal limit switches on the AUMA SA and SQ electric actuators.

AUMA is the world's leading manufacturer of electric actuators and gearboxes.

• SA type actuators - range for open-close duty and positioning duty are rated for class A and B or types of duty S2 - 15 min. A special version for longer running is available for the S2 - 30 min duty.
• The modulating actuators of the SAR range are rated for class C or types of duty S4 - 25 %. Special versions for S4 - 50 % and S5 - 25 % are also available.
• SQ type actuators - range for open-close duty and positioning duty are rated for class A and B or types of duty S2 - 15 min. 
• The modulating actuators of the SQR range are rated for class C or types of duty S4 - 25 %.

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Instrument Specialties Inc. Appointed New Exclusive Rep for AUMA Actuators in South Florida Municipal Market

AUMA, the world's leading manufacturer of electric actuators and gearboxes has appointed Instrument Specialties Inc. (ISI) as exclusive rep for the South Florida municipal (water) market. AUMA distinguishes the municipal market as sewage treatment plants, water treatment plants, drinking water distribution, sewage disposal, seawater desalination and steel constructions for water systems to operate weirs and sluice gates.

AUMA actuators are ubiquitous in the water industry due to their broad product offering which includes multi-turn, part-turn, and linear actuators, combined with a robust design that includes high corrosion protection, long service life, and low maintenance.

For more information, call 407-324-7800 of visit http://isi.group.