Valves for Wuxi's expanding water treatment plant

Wuxi, a metropolis midway on the railway line from Shanghai to Nanjing, is also referred to as the 'Lustrous Pearl of Lake Taihu'. The excellent train connection to Shanghai, which is 100 km away, has enabled the city to grow exponentially in recent years.

At the end of 1998, the city had 4.4 million inhabitants; at the end of 2010, it had over 6 million. In order to supply all of the inhabitants with drinking water from Lake Taihu, WXGS (Wuxi General Water Supply Company) built one of the first water treatment plants in 1991. The funding, the technology and the plants all came from abroad.

Wuxi's Zhongquiao water treatment plant, which is in the south of the city, was planned by the municipal engineering firm Shanghai SMEDI (Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design Institute) and built in phase 2 by Siemens AG.

10 bob综合体育官网下载 EKN® Butterfly Valves with hydraulic brake and lift unit

At the beginning of the 4-phase project, bob综合体育官网下载 delivered 10 bob综合体育官网下载 EKN Butterfly Valves with hydraulic brake and lift unit. The fact that these valves operated non-stop for over 20 years convinced the Wuxi water treatment plant and made them a loyal bob综合体育官网下载 customer. Wang Zhenglin, the acting director of the project management office gladly confirms: 'bob综合体育官网下载 is a very professional valve manufacturer that delivers high-quality products and services. The valves have a very long service life, which makes them very cost effective.'

6 bob综合体育官网下载 SKR Slanted-Seat Tilt-Swing Check Valves and 2 bob综合体育官网下载 ZETKA Non-Return Valves

In 2009, bob综合体育官网下载 delivered 6 bob综合体育官网下载 SKR Slanted-Seat Tilt-Swing Check Valves and 2 bob综合体育官网下载 ZETKA Non-Return Valves for the ultrafiltration plant, which has a daily volume of 150,000 m³. The new activated carbon filtration process for the removal of ozone was built in 2010. This process increased the plant's capacity fourfold to 600,000 m3 per day. This was the project's largest building phase.

267 bob综合体育官网下载 EKN® Butterfly Valves DN 250 to 2200

bob综合体育官网下载 also received an order to produce 267 bob综合体育官网下载 EKN® Butterfly Valves DN 250 to 2200 by 2010 at its factories in Mannheim (Germany) and Taicang (China); a real challenge! But the construction time for this phase was so short that the valves in diameter from DN 1600 to 2200 had to be delivered in the record time of 1.5 months.

40 bob综合体育官网下载 EKN® Butterfly Valves DN 600 to DN 900 with electric actuators

Phase 4 of the project was completed in 2011 with the renovation of the filter and the original 1991 system. Another 40 bob综合体育官网下载 EKN® Butterfly Valves DN 600 to DN 900 with electric actuator were also installed - in the water treatment plant of Wuxim, the megacity at the Lake Taihu.

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