GEA OptiPartner® Intellicant®
GEA Intellicant®: Next level dewatering
GEA Intellicant® revolutionizes sludge treatment by seamlessly monitoring, automating, and optimizing your decanter for maximum efficiency.
Designed as an upgrade kit for GEA systems in wastewater treatment plants, it enhances performance while significantly reducing disposal costs. With the GEA Intellicant® subscription model, you can unlock the full potential of your decanter and ensure long-term operational savings.
As part of the OptiPartner® digital solution family, Intellicant® sets new standards for intelligent wastewater management.
Smarter automation, drier sludge, lower costs.
Your decanter can do more.
As part of the digital GEA product family OptiPartner, GEA Intellicant® is designed to fully automate centrifuge operations in wastewater treatment plants. By integrating state-of-the-art sensors with an intelligent control algorithm, it enhances dewatering efficiency while significantly reducing operator workload. This advanced automation increases the dry substance content in sludge, lowering transportation and disposal costs.
GEA Intellicant® is particularly beneficial for large wastewater treatment plants that operate continuously at high capacity.
Minimizes manual tasks and improves efficiency
By automating routine tasks, GEA Intellicant® reduces manual sampling, machine parameter adjustments and overall man-hours required, providing a future-proof solution.
Enhances decanter performance
Gain deep insight into your decanter’s operation while optimizing sludge dryness, ensuring stable centrate quality, and maintaining consistent polymer consumption.
Smart, secure, and fully controlled operations
GEA Intellicant® ensures safety with a secure GEA Portal connection, automatic critical process alerts, and remote supervision through advanced monitoring.
Provides clear cost transparency
Detailed insight is provided by real-time sensor data, long-term trend analysis, and automatic generation of regular performance reports with GEA Intellicant®.
GEA Intellicant® pays off.
Every percent DS can save 135,000€ in annual disposal costs.*
*) Calculation of a decanter installation in a treatment plant with a capacity of 385,000 population equivalents and with disposal costs of 60€/t DS.
Next-level dewatering.
Automation, efficiency and cost savings.
At the Parthe wastewater treatment plant in Germany, GEA Intellicant® has transformed sludge dewatering. Operators share their experience with the system, highlighting its automation, reliability, and efficiency. By optimizing dry substance content and reducing manual intervention, Intellicant® has cut transportation costs and ensured stable operation – even during staff shortages.
Watch how this smart solution enhances daily workflows and keeps the plant running smoothly.
What's inside GEA Intellicant®?
The sensor upgrade package.
The sensors act as the eyes of GEA Intellicant®, continuously monitoring your decanter in real time and providing valuable insight into every stage of the process. These innovative sensors eliminate the need for manual sampling, giving operators effortless access to accurate data throughout the operation.The virtual operator.
GEA Intellicant® software ensures consistent dry substance levels, automates time-consuming adjustments, and improves process reliability and stability. By continuously analyzing process data, it reduces manual intervention, increases dry solids content and maintains optimum centrate quality while optimizing flocculant consumption.Access to the GEA Portal.
The GEA Portal centralizes your collaboration with GEA, offering KPI tracking through an online dashboard and extended remote support for enhanced supervision and performance optimization.
GEA Portal
Real-time insights and expert support
The GEA Portal provides operators with real-time monitoring, allowing them to track plant performance and respond quickly to changes. Continuous data collection enables transparent KPI tracking, helping to quantify savings with GEA Intellicant®. Automated performance reports support data-driven decisions to ensure long-term efficiency.
With remote support, GEA experts can proactively identify issues, quickly resolve problems, and provide tailored recommendations for process optimization. This combination of real-time insight and expert guidance improves plant reliability, efficiency and overall performance.
The efficiency of a subscription.
We care about long-term optimization and have designed GEA Intellicant® as a subscription service to enable continuous support.
Our experienced team answers technical questions, assists with troubleshooting, and provides information on the latest feature updates. No matter where the problem is: We are ready to help – even remotely.
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Optimizing performance beyond human capability
Revolutionizing sludge dewatering with smart automation.
Wastewater treatment plants are essential for our modern lives. But how can their operation be continuously advanced and improved? What has long been a challenge in terms of optimization has now been achieved: the automatic control of decanters for sludge dewatering. The smart solution from GEA Intellicant® operates these decanters better than humans were previously able to.
Christian Schramm, head of service business model management at GEA, told us more about the full potential of these smart machines in an interview.
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