EditorialAeration Is a Big Expense. See How One Clean-Water Plant Drove the Cost Down at Minimal Cost.

Aeration Is a Big Expense. See How One Clean-Water Plant Drove the Cost Down at Minimal Cost.

A Colorado plant reaps 38% electricity savings and rapid payback with a project combining two separate blower systems into one all-purpose package.

  • Appeared in print as "The Right Connections"
  • By Steve Lund
  • July 2020
  • Sustainable Operations
Aeration Is a Big Expense. See How One Clean-Water Plant Drove the Cost Down at Minimal Cost.
Aeration Is a Big Expense. See How One Clean-Water Plant Drove the Cost Down at Minimal Cost.

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Aeration Is a Big Expense. See How One Clean-Water Plant Drove the Cost Down at Minimal Cost.

The wastewater treatment plant in Trinidad, Colorado, stands in the high desert at about 6,000 feet above sea level.

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,...

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