Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility Leverages iFIX to Operate at Max Efficiency

Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility (CVWRF) is a state-of-the-art facility that treats wastewater using a trickling filter/solids contact process for secondary treatment. Every day, millions of gallons of wastewater are collected and piped into the facility from 7 member entities. CVWRF treats 50 to 60 million gallons of wastewater daily from these entities and clean water is returned to the Jordan River system. There are two components to Central Valley’s Facility: the collection system and the treatment facility. The collection system gathers all the wastewater and conveys it to the treatment facility. Once at the treatment facility, the wastewater undergoes treatment processes to meet Utah’s water quality standards. The wastewater treatment can be divided into two categories: liquid treatment and solids treatment.

They’ve been using GE Vernova’s iFIX solution for over 25 years to improve productivity and process control across their facility with industrial-strength SCADA automation software and high-performance HMI.

Results from industrial-strength SCADA automation software and high-performance HMI:

Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility has been able to partner with GE Vernova to create their own standard with iFIX. Through this standard, they’re able to bring everything in from other control systems and mimic what those control screens are doing via Visual Basic.

Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility averages about 1-2 updates a year with iFIX. From 2022-2023 they were able to upgrade 3 sets of redundant servers, each of those servers running about 28-30k tags each. In the past they would have to shut those down, bring up new ones, and rename them - in addition to a host of other tasks. But with GE Vernova, the upgrades have greatly improved and gotten easier to implement.

When they upgraded from Quantam to M580, Modicon came out with an OPC-UA card which was not a standard communication card as far as UA communication, so they had some difficulties with the securities on their side. They were able to work closely with GE Vernova support to create it and help set up through the IGS (Industrial Gateway Server) – enabling them to quickly migrate their their OPC-DA tags. From there they were able to upgrade their system in order to both select the tags and publish the screens faster.

Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility leverages iFIX’s integration with IGS in order to communicate with their field equipment and pull in just about any kind of PLC or other equipment out there.

Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility utilizes GE Vernova’s basic layouts and training modules to update their staff, teach new hires & get them up to speed quickly and take the guess work out of learning new processes.