Emerson to Install Control System at Largest Wastewater Treatment Facility
PITTSBURGH, May 16, 2005 – Emerson Process Management, a business of
Emerson (NYSE:EMR), announced today that it has signed a major, multi-year agreement
with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC).
Emerson will install its Ovation® expert control system at the District's
Stickney Water Reclamation Plant (WRP), the largest wastewater treatment facility
in the world with a capacity to process 1.3 billion gallons per day. The Stickney
WRP serves 2.4 million people in a 260-square-mile area including downtown Chicago
and 43 suburban communities.
As part of the agreement, Emerson will supply hardware, software, programming,
factory testing, training, and on-site startup and testing, as well as extended
maintenance and service. The installation of the Ovation system will be done
over the next several years, with a potential value to Emerson of more than
$25 million. The company's Power & Water Solutions industry center will
oversee and supervise the effort, which is the third major project Emerson has
had with the District.
"An expert control system like Ovation can be expected to generate overall
operation and maintenance efficiencies through improved data acquisition, process
monitoring and control -- and those benefits are magnified exponentially when
you consider a project of this size," said John Berra, president of Emerson
Process Management. "The Stickney plant represents an opportunity to showcase
the power of our fully integrated distributed control solution on a grand scale."