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Measuring task Flow Measurement of

1. Flow measurement at the inlet of the denitrification tank Wastewater in a
Medium: Raw sewage from the primary settling tank, incl. recycled Treatment Plant
sludge from the secondary settling tank
Nominal pipe diameters: DN1400 (3 x)

2. Flow measurement in the recirculation pipes between the aeration Customer

tank and the denitrification tank
Medium: biologically pretreated (nitrified) wastewater
Nominal pipe diameters: DN1200 (6 x)

Instruments used
9 FLUXUS? ADM 7407 (2 channel) units with 18 sets of M2N7
transducers
Advantages www.wupperverband.de
• Reliable and safe measurement
• A high dynamic measuring range ensures precise measurements at Wupperverband,
both low and high flow rates. Buchenhofen wastewater
• Highly precise and stable measurements thanks to the multi-beam treatment plant
measurement set-up with two sensor pairs and a dual-channel
transmitter at each measuring point. In the 813 km² catchment area of
• Not disturbed by deposits the Wupper river, the Wupper-
verband - a German public water
Selling points corporation - fulfils all water-related
tasks in a network that reaches far
• Enormous cost advantage as compared with magnetic inductive flow beyond the municipal borders. This
meters for this nominal pipe diameter includes the wastewater treatment
• Easy, cost-efficient installation (no crane and heavy equipment and disposal of sludge.
required for assembly) The Buchenhofen wastewater treat-
ment plant in Wuppertal is the
Description largest of the 11 treatment plants
operated by the Wupperverband.
From mid-2003 to mid-2005, the Buchenhofen wastewater treatment plant Here, the municipal wastewater of
in Germany was expanded to enable advanced nitrogen elimination for a Wuppertal (excluding the Ronsdorf
connected load of 700 000 population equivalents. Within the course of district and parts of Cronenberg)
this expansion, the inlets of the denitrification tanks and recirculation and a small part of Schwelm is
pipes between the aeration tanks and the denitrification tanks had to be treated.
equipped with flowmeters. The FLUXUS? ADM 7407 non-invasive clamp-
on ultrasonic measuring systems were chosen. The measuring systems
have provided trouble-free and fail-safe operation ever since.
Non-invasive ultrasonic flow
measurement is a very good and
economic alternative to the
magnetic-inductive flow meters
customarily used in the water and
wastewater industry. Because the
Buchenhofen wastewater treatment plant
clamp-on ultrasonic transducers Aerial view: Ernser Bild, source: Wupperverband
are simply installed on the outer
surface of the pipe, large diameters
do not cause any significant
additional costs. Furthermore
installation and commissioning are
very easy, requiring no pipework or
large construction work. The high
transmission power of the FLUXUS? ADM ensures reliable and failure
safe measurements even in the case of large diameters, deposits and
wastewater contaminated with solid sludge particles.

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