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When designing or upgrading your plant distribution service pumping station, booster pump stations or sewage lift stations, we can help evaluate and recommend the proper pump control valve solutions. We work with the top control valve makers serving the AWWA water market with decades of experience designing and building quality products. Transient surge conditions exist anytime water is suddenly stopped or started. We enlist the experts to evaluate your fluid dynamics and surge potential for each application. Please contact our office to discuss your pump control needs.
We were contacted by Nicholasville Water about a pump control valve at the raw water intake that was failing. The existing valve was an electrically operated industrial style ball valve with a resilient seat. During it’s short time in service, the valve had started leaking past it’s seat. The pipe coming from the pump control valve up to the plant is at a steep incline with the top of the pipe roughly 400 feet above the elevation of the raw water pump and pump control valve. With the valve leaking as it was, this line was draining every time they shutoff the pump. Draining this 24 inch line every time the pump shutoff was a huge loss of water for the plant. It also allowed this massive amount of water to come back on the pump, causing significant wear and shortening the life expectancy of the pump itself.
As a solution, we recommended and supplied a rotary cone valve with monel seating and electric motor operator. The characteristics of the cone valve and its’ actuator, created smooth efficient pump control as well as offering a full open port for minimal headloss. The metal seats in the cone valve provide durable and reliable seating, ensuring a proper seal every time even with small solids or deposits often seen in raw water that can cause problems with resilient seated valves.
The City of Columbus, Southerly WWTP improvement project added a new Effluent Pump Station. The plant utilizes effluent for wash-water and other non-potable usage throughout the plant. During the design phase Hydro Controls worked with the design professional to analyze surge potential at the pump station. Given the mixed usage and wide range of demand loads on the process water, it was determined that harmful transient surges could propagate throughout this piping system and a pump control valve would help mitigate this problem.
Based on our findings and recommendations, the DP specified the GA Industries, Checktronic Pump Control Valve. The Checktronic is a unique pump control valve that incorporates an Electric Motor operator for clean, repeatable and reliable service. The valve is also fitted with a specially engineered stop check feature that allows for fail closure on loss of power or pumping pressure. If you are designing or upgrading a pump station at your plant or for your client, please call and talk to one of our sales engineers for more information on this innovative pump control option.
When evaluating pump control valves for your pumping system, it is important to determine your priorities first. Many High Service pumping systems are designed to feed finished water to millions of customers while others may provide drinking water to smaller or more rural communities. If the end user has a focus on low headloss, reducing energy cost to pump the finished water to the system, the AWWA Ball Valve should be considered. This option does carry a higher capital cost on the installation side but typically offers the end user payback within a desirable amount of time in service. We can offer a present worth analysis for each of your pump control valve applications to provide a better understanding of cost vs. benefits of ownership. Please contact our office if we may provide more information about our AWWA Ball Valve solutions.
Automatic control valves were designed in the early 1900's to provide water service to rapid growing American urban developments. Technology at the time was limited and automation and actuation that we use today was decades away from being developed. Golden Anderson was one of the pioneers of the automatic control valve for steam and water. Early on, the principal of differential pressure was the basis of design. Using this principal of operation, valves were designed to control the change of velocity entering the piping network at the pumping station. The differential piston control valve was born to handle pump control and mitigate sudden stops and starts of the water column. Since then, other technologies have enhanced the automatic control valve marketplace with the addition of balanced piston and diaphragm designs. We can help recommend and provide the right automatic control valve for your application. Please contact our office for more information.
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We can help you find the perfect actuation solution to your flow control applications. We know you have multiple electric motor operator (EMO) options in the market so we work that much harder to ensure your valve and actuator assembly suits your every need. We proudly represent Flowserve/Limitorque actuators and whether a 6" Butterfly Valve or 144" X 144" Sluice Gate, we always help with start up and training at your facility. We can also supply hydraulic or pneumatic operators when requested with quality Channel Partners with years of manufacturing experience. Please contact our office for more information on our actuation solutions.
As a solution, we recommended and supplied a rotary cone valve with monel seating and electric motor operator. The characteristics of the cone valve and its’ actuator, created smooth efficient pump control as well as offering a full open port for minimal headloss. The metal seats in the cone valve provide durable and reliable seating, ensuring a proper seal every time even with small solids or deposits often seen in raw water that can cause problems with resilient seated valves.
When the application is more critical and may require a fail-safe mode during loss of power, please consider The Kerry Company for a full line of linear and rotary hydraulic actuators. The below photo is from the Hoover Reservoir located in Columbus, Ohio. These hydraulic units control the large Crest Gates that maintain the reservoir water elevation. The Kerry actuator is an integral part of keeping the developed suburb below the dam safe from any dangerous overflow. Please contact our office to discuss The Kerry Company and their quality hydraulic actuation systems.
Throughout the Midwest, stormwater infiltration is a constant battle that all of our local municipalities must face year after year. With older infrastructure comes new challenges as commercial land development continues to grow. Increased awareness and new technologies have lead to a number of solutions to mitigate stormwater intrusion.
With most Stormwater collection systems much of the overflow from heavy rain events will discharge through outfalls to various streams, rivers and other waterways. In an effort to allow for this overflow but also prevent the waterway from intruding back into the piping system, Backflow Prevention products are deployed. A variety of engineered products can be deployed to hold back high waters to include Rubber Duckbill check valves, Inline Rubber Check valves and mechanical flap valves. The application parameters will dictate the recommended solution to include the design of the outfall, the expected maximum flow and the maximum potential backpressure against the device. We have a multitude of solutions so please allow our decades of experience go to work for you.
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In 1985 the US EPA commissioned Red Valve Company to help solve the ever growing challenge of Stormwater intrusion and flooding from heavy rain events. The result was the Tideflex "Duckbill" Check Valve. Designed to be installed at the end of pipe or the outfall wall itself, the Tideflex check valve has been the preferred method of backflow prevention for the past 30 years. By 2010 Tideflex Technologies had developed and introduced a number of enhancements and new products to solve even the most difficult applications. Ease of installation and maintenance, the advent of the Inline Checkmate valve and the constant R & D investment has helped Tideflex maintain itself as the undisputed leader in check valve products for the Collection systems here and abroad. Please contact our office for more information on this innovative backflow prevention solution.
When conditions are such that installation of a check valve is restrictive, a quality Flap Gate can offer similar assurance against backflow. While a Flap Gate is more mechanical in nature, if designed well and maintained properly, a high quality Flap Gate may be the solution. We represent Hydro Gate which has traditional Cast Iron, Fabricated Stainless Steel and an innovative rubber flap gate design for ease of maintenance.
Some collection structures will require a flow control gate designed to be manually or automatically operated. Hydro Gate is a leader in the development and manufacturing of robust Cast Iron Sluice Gates that will offer the client 50-80 years of reliable life expectancy.
Please contact our office to discuss these important control gate solutions.
When designing or upgrading your plant distribution service pumping station, booster pump stations or sewage lift stations, we can help evaluate and recommend the proper pump control, pressure management and air release valve solutions. We work with the top control valve makers serving the AWWA water market with decades of experience designing and building quality products. Transient surge conditions exist anytime water is suddenly stopped or started. We enlist the experts to evaluate your fluid dynamics and surge potential for each application. Please contact our office to discuss your project surge potential and allow us to offer another set of eyes on this very critical design parameter.
Hydro Controls and our valued manufacturing partners have established ourselves as leaders in exploring new and innovative solutions to help mitigate surge in water and wastewater piping systems. We can make recommendations to help manage surge potential at the pump discharge, surge ready response with a variety of surge relief solutions as well as pressure management valves throughout the water system. Please contact Hydro Controls when you have a transient surge problem or if you are a design professional, allow us to be a trusted partner and put another set of eyes on the pumping system.
Sizing the proper surge relief valve solution can be challenging. Our automatic control valve Channel Partners have designed and manufactured these surge protection valves for decades. Whether your pumps are constant speed or variable frequency driven, the threat of power loss is real and can propagate damaging surge conditions in your system. Think of a Surge Relief valve as an insurance policy to protect your pump station and distribution system. Our partner GA Industries will conduct a surge analysis for you at the design stage of your project and provide recommendations on how to best mitigate any surge potential. Please contact our office for more information on our surge relief solutions.
Hydro Controls has decades of experience providing pressure management solutions throughout municipal water systems in our area. Many times there is not just one solution to maintain operational pressure zones in a large water system. Hydro Controls and our partners will review your applications for pressure reducing, recirculating and pressure sustaining and work with the Utility to make the right recommendations for each location. Please contact our office for more information on our pressure management valve solutions.
We offer several styles of quality level control valve solutions commonly known as Altitude Valves. Traditional Altitude valves are a passive design that control the level of water in the tank, the amount of draw down in the tank and in some cases emergency closure for unforeseen events. With the advent of SCADA and remote monitoring, some of our clients want to look at alternative control valves with reliable actuators to fill and adjust the level of water in the tanks from the control room. We can help recommend the right solution for your tank filling and storage needs. Please contact our office for more information on all of our level control solutions.
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Commonly used the water distribution and treatment systems, the Pratt AWWA rubber seated butterfly valve is the standard of the industry with a reputation of quality and longevity. We offer a number of quality butterfly valves for other services such as industrial, critical and air distribution service as well. Please contact our office for more information.
Needed for solids handling the eccentric plug valve is utilized on most isolation valve applications in the wastewater treatment plant. The plug valve is used to seal around solids found on Raw Sewage, Grit Handling, Waste and Return Activated Sludge and a number of other applications within the plant. We offer the Pratt design which features a round ported valve opening through 12" and rectangular 14" and beyond. We see great results with the Pratt round ported design with much improved CV values as compared to rectangular 80% ported plug valves. Pratt has been offering valve solutions for over a century and constantly improve on their valve designs. Please contact our office and discuss why pipes are not rectangular and neither should your isolation valve!
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