H2Ops (Demo)

Plant specification

Newell WTP

Newell Regional Services Corp. (NRSC) · Brooks, AB, Canada

Status not reported

Pall/Aria Microza microfiltration (MF)

Source: Lake Newell Reservoir

OEM: Pall (now AriaFiltra)

OEM: Kinetico

Overview Membrane System Envelopes Performance Water Quality Ancillary Systems Controls Spare Parts

2026 status

As of 2026-09-08, Newell has been given Aria's budgetary proposal for a controls refurbishment; the legacy control system is now part of the plant's lifecycle envelope, not just an operating condition

Control system

Architecture: Allen-Bradley ControlLogix, with redundant processors added in a later modification
Distributed I/O: Numatics G2 distributed pneumatic/I/O manifolds
HMI / SCADA: Pall HMI/SCADA interface
Networks: ControlNet
DeviceNet

Controls spare parts →

2020 inspection findings

PLC program not stored on the plant PC
Rockwell software/code reportedly held by MPE
Electrical drawings missing from several panels
One air-scrub flow signal had a substantial HMI delay from being routed through the plant PLC instead of directly to the Pall MCP