BUSKI, the public water supply and sewerage administration company, is responsible for the water supply in the Province of Bursa, in western Turkey. The city where the company is based, Bursa, is Turkey's fourth largest conurbation. Three million people live there with a daily drinking water demand of 700,000 m³. BUSKI goes to great lengths to establish a failure-free water supply system and to build up a functioning infrastructure based on European standards.
In the past, faults in the system could only be determined by on-site maintenance staff. Additionally, chlorine was added to the water at regular intervals, which caused fluctuations in water quality. A further goal of the water treatment modernization project was to achieve energy savings. But this was nothing new for Festo. We have already completely automated and modernized six other water treatment plants in Turkey.
A central element was the modernization and automation of the sand bed filter. You can find out here how we did this. Or you can skip directly to the Festo solution.
In addition to products and accessories, Festo also offers comprehensive water technology solutions. Our specialists supported the Bursa-based Turkish water supplier from the first planning steps right up to operational staff training.
Together with BUSKI, Festo specialists created a needs analysis that included all the key stations for the treatment process: The filter basins, the metering, the clarifier, the sludge thickener and the chlorination. The result was a convincing concept comprising all the requirements such as full automation, smooth operation and simple maintenance as well as staff training.