Rotterdam Booster Station Upgrade
A Dutch utility replaced three 1990s boosters with AF-C-150 duty-standby pairs; energy per cubic metre dropped 22 percent with no downtime during switchover.
Project Background
The utility operates a district booster station serving 40,000 residents. The existing fixed-speed boosters from the 1990s ran deep in throttle losses at night and leaked at the gland.
The station needed a like-for-like swap inside a two-week shutdown window, with SCADA integration kept on the existing protocol.
- Product
- Centrifugal Pumps
- Fluids
- Clean Water
- Applications
- Municipal Water Supply
The Requirement
Flow of 210 cubic metres per hour at 58 metres head, N+1 redundancy, and noise below 65 dB(A) at one metre because of a nearby residential wall.
The client also wanted energy reporting per pump to feed their municipal dashboard.
Pumps And Configuration Supplied
Two AF-C-150 boosters in duty-standby on one baseplate with common suction and discharge headers, each driven by a 30 kW IE3 motor on a variable speed drive.
The control cabinet keeps the Modbus register map of the old station, so the SCADA integration was unchanged.
Pumps
2 x AF-C-150, 210 m3/h at 58 m, 2950 rpm, cast iron with bronze impeller
Motors And Drives
2 x 30 kW IE3, 400 V 50 Hz, ABB-compatible VSD with sleep-and-check mode
Baseplate And Headers
Common galvanized baseplate, DN150 suction and DN125 discharge headers, isolated by butterfly valves
Controls
Pressure transducer on discharge header, Modbus RTU map matched to the existing SCADA
Project Photos
Left to right: the new duty-standby set on test in our hall, the bench run with the client witness online, and the cabinet before wrapping.
Result After Commissioning
Energy per cubic metre fell 22 percent against the old fixed-speed set, verified from the utility's own billing data over three months.
The switchover was completed in nine days, and the station has run two maintenance intervals without a seal change.
Project Videos
AF-C-150 bench run for the Rotterdam station
Videos load from YouTube only after you press play.
Series Used In This Project
Quote A Similar Pumping Station
Send the duty point and site details, and our sales engineer returns a selection and a quotation.