Market
Water & Wastewater
Harmonic analysis, arc-flash studies, and SCADA-aware electrical engineering for water and wastewater utilities.
Overview
Water and wastewater treatment runs on pumps and VFDs, and those VFDs create harmonic distortion that damages transformers, trips capacitor banks, and burns out neutrals. Every pump station is also an arc-flash exposure point for operators. We engineer the full electrical envelope and the studies that keep it safe.
What makes this market different
Sector-specific challenges
VFD harmonics
Process VFDs distort voltage and current. We measure with PQ recorders, model in ETAP, and design filters or specify K-factor transformers that bring distortion back into IEEE 519 compliance.
Arc-flash exposure on pump-station equipment
Operators interact with energized equipment routinely. NFPA 70E-compliant labeling and PPE specification reduces the risk.
SCADA and instrumentation power
Instrumentation and SCADA panels must ride through power events that the rest of the facility can survive. We engineer dedicated power for them.
Aging infrastructure
Many treatment plants are operating on equipment installed in the 1970s. Studies expose adequacy issues; design phases the replacement.
Representative work
Recent projects
Multi-state
Confidential Municipal Utility: Wastewater Treatment Harmonic Study
PQ measurement, harmonic modeling, and filter recommendation for a VFD-heavy plant.
Why TPS
What you get with TPS on a water & wastewater project
In-house harmonic analysis and PQ measurement capability
Experience across drinking-water and wastewater process environments
Government MSA-eligible: fits municipal procurement workflows
Have a water & wastewater project on your desk?
We respond to every inquiry within one business day with a scoped proposal, a real timeline, and the engineer who will run the work.