Aeration Efficiency Project Complete. Next Step: Net-Zero Energy.

An aeration blower replacement puts a Wisconsin clean-water plant on a course toward being energy self-sufficient or a net producer of energy.

Aeration Efficiency Project Complete. Next Step: Net-Zero Energy.

Two Sulzer magnetic bearing blowers replaced four old blowers at the Beaver Dam Wastewater Treatment Plant. 

The Beaver Dam (Wisconsin) Wastewater Treatment Plant is an extended aeration facility. Its activated sludge process allows the wastewater to spend 24 hours in aeration under average flows.

It takes a lot of air to operate that kind of plant, so saving energy on blowers has a...

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