QUANTUM CONSULTING, INC. » significant energy savings http://www.qcworld.com Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:25:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Quantum Consulting and MWRP http://www.qcworld.com/quantum-consulting-and-mwrp.html http://www.qcworld.com/quantum-consulting-and-mwrp.html#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:37:10 +0000 admin http://www.qcworld.com/?p=48 Quantum Consulting and BacGen Technologies (Team) are proposing the MWRP as an opportunity to achieve significant energy savings, with significant demand reduction, while leveraging investments already made by PG&E and The California Energy Commission. The MWRP has been successfully implemented in four facilities in the Central Valley of California, with an additional four facilities expected by March 2002. On an annual basis, we expect energy savings of approximately 40 percent from a program directed at demand reduction – demand reduction is expected to be more than 50 percent during the peak hours of Noon to 8:00 PM.2 These reductions are significant and likely unmatched by other options for the same price.
While the wastewater industry can be complicated, the MWRP is predicated on two simple points:

•= Wastewater facilities are generally over-engineered (i.e. use too much aeration, and
therefore to much energy), and
•= With proper monitoring/sensors in place, equipment aeration equipment can be
cycled without compromising system integrity.

These two points stem from a general fact in the wastewater treatment industry – facilities pay for tomorrow’s operations and maintenance (O&M) today. That is, given significant construction costs, facilities are built for a twenty-year time horizon, leading to over-capacity.

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