Monitoring system for electricity consumption at pumping stations

Abstract

Abstract Currently, the control and accounting of electricity at 1693 irrigation pumping stations of the Ministry of water management of Uzbekistan is carried out manually, on the basis of which 17 different types of documentation are filled in. This work requires a large amount of time and human resources. This can also be observed at the water and wastewater pumping stations. In this paper, the existing system of accounting for electricity consumption is fully considered on the example of several irrigation pumping stations and one regional management of pumping stations. The organizational structure and the procedure for maintaining documents on accounting and collecting information about the electricity consumed by pumping stations were analyzed. Based on the data obtained, an automated system for monitoring and accounting of electric power at pumping stations has been developed. This system eliminates unauthorized switching on pumping units, theft, or inefficient power consumption. As a result, it reduces the annual electricity consumption of pumping stations, and also reduces labor costs. The payback period for the introduction of an automated system for monitoring and accounting of electric power at pumping stations is 2.5 months.