Smarter automation. Drier sludge. Lower costs.
Your decanter can do more.
Fluctuating sludge characteristics, stricter discharge limits, rising disposal costs, and increasing pressure on operational efficiency require a new level of process control in wastewater treatment plants. Intellicant® is the smart upgrade kit that transforms your GEA decanter centrifuge into a data-driven sludge dewatering system.
By combining easy-to-install, low-maintenance sensors with intelligent autonomous control software, Intellicant® continuously monitors and optimizes the dewatering process. This improves process stability, reduces operator workload, increases dry solids content, and helps lower sludge transportation and disposal costs.
As part of the OptiPartner® digital solution family, Intellicant® unlocks measurable performance potential for modern wastewater treatment operations.
Your key benefits
Enhances decanter performance
Monitor and optimize your decanter to increase sludge dryness, ensure stable centrate, and reduce polymer and disposal costs.
Minimizes manual tasks and improves efficiency
Automate routine decanter operations to cut manual sampling, reduce adjustments, and save operator hours with a future-proof solution.
Smart, secure and fully controlled operations
Ensure stable, autonomous decanter performance with the Virtual Operator, integrated alarms, and continuous real-time sensor monitoring.
Clear cost transparency
Gain real-time insights, track long-term trends, and generate automated performance reports with the OptiPartner Intellicant app.
Sustainability through smarter dewatering
Reduce CO₂ emissions and environmental impact with optimized sludge dewatering, lowering transport and disposal requirements.
"Since implementing Intellicant, we’ve increased the dry solids content of our dewatered sludge from about 22% to a steady 24%. That improvement has significantly reduced transports as well as logistics and disposal costs."
Sarah Polage
Head of Technical Operations, WWTP Parthe, Germany
Automation, efficiency and cost savings.
How Intellicant® optimizes sludge dewatering
"Intellicant has made a noticeable difference in our operation. We’re saving between 25% and 28% of polymer while maintaining a stable dewatering process."
Wilfried Westermann
Head of WWTP Geseke, Germany
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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Automation with GEA OptiPartner Intellicant
When decanters think
Curious how wastewater treatment operators experience “intelligent” decanters during their daily shifts? It’s less about the hardware – and more about the headspace.
GEA Intellicant supports operators with real-time, adaptive control that stabilizes performance, reduces polymer use, and improves dry solids output in wastewater treatment.
Optimizing performance beyond human capability
Smart automation for sludge dewatering
Wastewater treatment plants are essential to modern life – but optimizing sludge dewatering has long been a challenge. With GEA Intellicant, decanters can now be automatically controlled to run more efficiently than ever before.
In this story, Christian Schramm shares insights into the full potential of smart decanter automation.
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