KSB Guard harvests valuable monitoring data on Spanish fields
KSB installed its KSB Guard monitoring system to ensure more effective usage and maintenance planning for the Páramo Bajo de León y Zamora irrigation cooperative in north-west Spain as part of a pilot project with five Omega irrigation pumps.
KSB installed its KSB Guard monitoring system to ensure more effective usage and maintenance planning for the Páramo Bajo de León y Zamora irrigation cooperative in north-west Spain as part of a pilot project with five Omega irrigation pumps.
The project
Monitoring field irrigation pumps
armers in the Zamora region in north-west Spain joined forces to form an irrigation cooperative to manage irrigation of their fields more efficiently quite a few decades ago. Since then, water used to cultivate fields has been administered centrally in the Comunidad de Páramo.
Between eight and fourteen KSB Omega pumps operate at the different pump stations with the number depending on the size of the surface being irrigated. The pumps primarily run in the summer months when precipitation is not sufficient in this region and fields need to be irrigated to ensure they do not dry up.
KSB sensor being attached to a KSB Omega irrigation pump together with the transmission and battery unit
The client
CCRR Páramo Bajo de León y Zamora
Founded back in 1953, the cooperative today employs a workforce of around 80 and is responsible for coordinating irrigation over a total of 17,000 hectares of agricultural land.
One of the pump stations with eight large Omega dual chamber pumps used to irrigate fields in the Zamora region
KSB Omega with fitted KSB Guard sensor unit and transmission and battery unit
Background
A pilot project to promote KSB Guard
First and foremost, the project was aimed at raising awareness of the many benefits that KSB Guard offers as part of a KSBSupremeServ roll-out strategy in the León and Zamora region. KSB has already installed more than 100 Omega pumps for field irrigation in this area.
When selecting the sprinkler systems, management opted for modern, sophisticated technologies with the KSB Guard monitoring solution serving as an ideal complement. This solution provides the client with a valuable resource to compare the status of the pumps at the start of the irrigation period in early March, during the season itself and when it comes to an end. This now allows the experts to make valid decisions for the following season and plan preventive maintenance work very precisely for specific needs.
The trained KSBSupremeServ technicians needed just one day to fully install the system on pumps and set up everything on a technical level. KSB will use this successful pilot project to roll out the KSB Guard monitoring solution in other regions in Spain.
Figure | Data | Facts
System: Water supply for sprinkling system
Year of project: 2021
End client: CCRR Páramo Bajo de León y Zamora
Project details: Ten KSB Guards on five Omega pumps
Used products
KSB Guard
The smart and comprehensive monitoring service for pumps and other rotating machinery, available 24/7 and also for non-KSB pumps. Benefit from predictive maintenance with KSB: comprehensive transparency, increased availability, enhanced operating reliability and efficient operation (of fixed-speed pumps). Important operating data such as vibrations, temperature, operating hours and load condition (of fixed-speed pumps) can be accessed via KSB Guard, anytime and from anywhere. In addition, deviations from normal operation trigger immediate notifications via the KSB Guard web portal and/or app. The experts at the KSB Monitoring Centre also provide support in analysing causes.
Omega
Single-stage axially split volute casing pump for horizontal or vertical installation, with double-entry radial impeller, mating flanges to DIN, EN or ASME.