When Jacobs took over operations of the wastewater treatment plant in Trinidad, Colorado, the team quickly found that the aeration system was significantly overpowered.
“We had two different systems where we would inject air,” says John Kipp, project manager.One system, providing air to the digesters and a waste activated sludge tank, had two blowers (75 hp and 90 hp) that ran alternately. The other system, feeding the aeration basins, had three 150 hp blowers that ran alternately.“The blowers supplying the aeration basins were oversized and were producing too much air that was being wasted,” Kipp says. “We did the math and
