Rotork provides actuators to Mich. WRRF

The WRRF in East Lansing, Mich. has installed over 100 Rotork IQT part-turn electric actuators for its new digester process and a variety of other vital roles.

Feb. 8, 2022

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The IQ actuators on-site at East Lansing.

The Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) in East Lansing, Mich. has installed over 100 of Rotork's IQT part-turn electric actuators.

Lansing’s activated sludge/tertiary filtration plant has the capacity to process approximately 18.75 million gallons of water every single day and provides wastewater treatment for the City of East Lansing, Michigan State University and the Meridian Charter Township.

The facility has ordered over 100 actuators, consisting of various-range part-turn electric actuators. The actuators will serve a variety of vital roles, including the operation of flow control valves, sluice gates, ball control valves, AWWA butterfly valves, and eccentric plug valves. They were installed alongside the company’s IW Mk2 quarter-turn worm gearboxes.

The actuators will also provide an isolating service in a new digester process. The digester process breaks down the waste material to produce biogas; the actuators ensure that the flow of municipal wastewater can be stopped, should it be necessary to do so.

These new installations were not the first Rotork actuators on site. With an installed base of actuators connected through DeviceNet and an additional installation of around 50 intelligent integral non-intrusive electric actuators in 2016, Rotork has a strong presence at East Lansing WRRF. That presence it is expected to grow with future developments.