New alarm for sewage treatment plants

New alarm for Titan Pollution Control Biotec sewage treatment plants will speed up fault repair.

Titan Pollution Control is fitting all of its Biotec sewage treatment plants (Models P6 to P25) with a high-tech control panel featuring a new alarm and digital read-out display that can diagnose any component failure, thus speeding up the repair process.

Alarms are now mandatory for sewage treatment plants in the event of a power failure (ref EA PPG4 and EN12566-3).

However, the Titan Pollution Control Biotec will now be able to communicate the nature of any fault, including loss of pressure from the air blower, pump failure, or power failure to the householder or maintenance representative, through a digital display and fault code.

The alarm can also communicate directly to the company's service centre, enabling the service engineer to prioritise the fault and determine what parts to bring.

"Making the process of fault diagnosis faster and more efficient means the plant will be up and running again far more quickly, and the potential for adverse environmental impact following a component failure will be minimised," says Darren Crane, UK Sales Manager for Titan Pollution Control.

The announcement follows confirmation that all Titan Pollution Control Biotec models, 6 to 50 population, have been tested and passed against the new European standard - EN12566 Part 3: Small Wastewater Treatment Systems - entitling them to carry official CE (Communaute Europeenne) marking, which allows approved manufacturers to trade across the European Union.

Crane continues: "The new standard brings much needed conformity to the industry by defining minimum requirements for sewage treatment plants, including the fact that they must be structurally durable, watertight, corrosion resistant and fitted with an alarm.

"We believe we were the first manufacturer to complete performance testing and it seems likely that the UK environmental regulators will recommend the installation of CE marked products from July 2008 onwards".

Other UK manufacturers currently have a transition period in which to carry out the performance and other specified tests enabling them to ensure that their products comply with the standard's requirements.

The normal 12-month transition period has been extended to allow for the lengthy performance test and expires in July 2008.

Manufacturers who do not test their products to the standard will not be able to export them for use in other European Union countries, unless they can prove to regulators by some other means that their goods will perform and are of a sufficiently high quality.

Importantly, after the July 2008 dead-line, sewage treatment plants in the UK will need to have been tested and display upon request the performance achieved during the rigorous testing regime.

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