They're Singing Our Song...

The unique benefits of BioChem's pioneering, intelligent process optimization and control products are starting to gain wide recognition.   Consider this article from the current edition of
Water Finance and Management:   linked here

The article focuses on the three new "criticals" which are essential to meeting the challenges
modern plant operators face.  These are:

Right Sizing - This no longer means building in excess capacity in anticipation of a distant future,
but "turn down capability" in order to function efficiently in the present.

Smart Automation - Or next generation digital solutions which represent the fourth industrial revolution.  These provide actionable information and the ability to "learn", to continuously self monitor and tune.

Asset Management - Explains the benefits of Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) and
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) which these next gen tools can provide.

New Technical Partnership

BioChem Utilizing JenTech Inc. to Enhance Integrated Control System Capabilities and Performance

BioChem Technology (BCT), the world's premier provider of next-generation biological process optimization and aeration control systems, is pleased to announce its new partnership with JenTech Inc. 

Thomas E. Jenkins, President, is a world-renowned expert in the application of various blower technologies and their integration into overall plant control strategies.  In particular, Mr. Jenkins literally "wrote the book": Aeration Control System Design, Wiley 2013.  In addition to this text book, Mr. Jenkins has authored many scholarly articles for presentation at WEFTEC and in various trade publications.  He has served as a peer reviewer for the EPA.  His primary focus has been on blower performance, efficiency, and energy conservation.

BCT has an unwavering commitment to environmental stewardship and the operators of today’s modern wastewater treatment plants.  This partnership will provide expanded solutions to the ever more complex and challenging issues they face.

BCT’s control solutions are a featured technology in EDI’s (Environmental Dynamics International) Symphony Operating Management System.  See how Symphony can guide the integration and management of the varied technologies and processes required by modern treatment demands.

Link to JenTech: http://www.jentechinc.com/

What is Symphony - here

BioChem's unique aeration control solution

BioChem's total process optimization

Why BACS is now PAL

                   

BioChem introduced its patented Bioprocess Aeration Control System (BACS) in 2009.

Since then it has proven its effectiveness, efficiency and reliability in dozens of applications as a stand alone subsystem to control the production and distribution of the aeration process.  BACS is not the standard proportional integral (PI) loop utilizing high speed trial and error based control actions to chase the desired set-point.  Rather BACS is an intelligent system which actually calculates the volume of air required to maintain the DO setpoint by analyzing the process metabolism in real-time.  In fact, because of system response times, it is necessary to know what the oxygen demand will be 15 minutes from now in order to effectively maintain the proper DO concentration.   BACS does this.  It has a Predictive  element in its nature.

With BioChem's EDI partnership a new more holistic concept to process design and control was introduced.  This new concept called Symphony considers all the critical subsystems required to control the biological treatment process utilizing digitized intelligence throughout.  The goal is to achieve unprecedented economy and performance while providing practical, actionable information to manage the plant by incorporating such features as fault detection and isolation (FDI) and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). 

Within the Symphony framework, we decided that it was more informative for our systems' names to describe not merely the "what" they do, such as Bioprocess Aeration Control, but the "how and why", such as Predictive Aeration Logic (PAL).   As mentioned above, to control something like the DO level in a very complex, dynamic and nonlinear process, you need to be predictive.  You need a PAL.       BACS = Your PAL.  

PAR = Precision Automation with Reliability

Can automated process optimization and aeration control really work to save significant energy (50%!), while meeting stricter effluent limits?  And all with the peace of mind of robust and reliable, true hands free functionality?  You bet.  Consider two recent cases in which BioChem's control solutions were dramatically successful despite very different processes and equipment.   Please read about these projects here.

PAL = Predictive Aeration Logic

PAL or Predictive Aeration Logic, is the concept under which BioChem's patented Bioprocess Aeration Control System (BACS) is being marketed as part of EDI's Symphony program; a technology suite designed to deliver the best possible process performance at the least cost, while also delivering the peace of mind that comes from real, robust and reliable automated control.

To see a little bit of just how well PAL works see article here.   To see a more detailed case study click here!

What some of our customers and partners have to say about us

Don't just take our word for it...

Rather see what some of our customers and partners have to say about working with BioChem and the performance of our solutions. Read it all here.

What is Symphony?

The Symphony concept embodies the vision behind BioChem's recently announced partnership with Environmental Dynamics International (EDI).  EDI's extensive aeration products and expertise are combined with BioChem's industry leading biological process knowledge and intelligent, fully automated optimization and control technologies.  The result is a comprehensive technology suite which orchestrates all the critical subsystems of secondary treatment for unparalleled efficiency and performance.  Let Symphony select the proper aeration equipment, arrange your process, and "conduct" your plant's operating systems: blowers, valves, pumps and instruments in perfect harmony.  

The idea behind Symphony isn't just to make different equipment work, but make the complete system work, together, as a system, while BioChem's control logic insures optimal performance and maximum efficiency under all operating conditions; automatically.   It can be adapted to any process type, as well as blowers, valves or instruments of any type or manufacture.  It is infinitely and seamlessly scale-able.          

To learn more about Symphony, visit EDI's website at wastewater.com, or simply click here.