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Malibu Civic Center Stormwater Treatment Facility
Malibu, CA
The Malibu Civic Center Stormwater Treatment Facility is a combined filtration and disinfection
system designed to mitigate stormwater runoff problems with bacterial pollution at Malibu Lagoon
and Surfrider Beach. Runoff from storm drains and culverts is diverted by pump stations to the
treatment system where the captured volume is treated. RCK Controls designed and installed an
Automated Control System (ACS) to control and monitor the lift stations and main treatment facility's
filtration and ozone contacting processes, removing particulates and sanitizing the stormwater before sending
it back to the lagoon and coastal area. A complete picture of the stormwater treatment facility's operations is
exposed through RCK's HMI, a modern and graphically rich software environment that combines standard SCADA
features such as data trending and event logging with an array of dynamic process screens to provide intuitive
control and detailed instrumentation monitoring from both a real-time and historical perspective. When problems
arise or system parameters fall outside of standard conditions, alarm messages are transmitted by the ACS in plain-readable
english alerting key personnel's cell phones, alpha numeric pagers and desktop e-mail accounts with complete details of the incident.
The ACS also offers secure remote VPN access to facilitate off-site management by City of Malibu staff and enhance vendor support options.
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Georgia Aquarium
Atlanta, GA
This project included the automation of all the animal exhibits
at the Georgia Aquarium. Combined, these exhibits hold approximately
8 million gallons of water hosting more than 100,000 animals.
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Sea World of California
San Diego, CA
All of the major Life Support Systems (LSS's) at Sea World California are automated by
RCK Controls and tied together through a fiber optic network, allowing operators to view and control
all Automated Control Systems (ACS's) from any of the RCK System Interfaces distributed throughout the
park. Our most recent project included LSS automation for the Commerson Dolphin exhibit and water treatment
for the Journey to Atlantis. Another recent project involved an upgrade of the Chilled Water System where a
mix of legacy equipment dispersed throughout the park needed to communicate with modern chiller plant controls.
The ACS implements four communication protocols to tie together chillers, heat exchangers, thier actuators,
associated sensors and Graphical User Interfaces (GUI's). Two of the communication interfaces were designed
specifically for this project and were the product of a cooperative design effort between three vendors. The
combination of Optomux over RS-485, BACnet/IP, SMTP and SOAP web services allow these disparate systems to share
the data necessary to meet the optimization goals and provide monitoring and control services to users from various
departments on the respective GUI's.
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Sea World of
Florida
Orlando, FL
Automated control of the life support systems for the major exhibits including Shamu Stadium, Pinniped Exhibit
and Quarantine Facility.
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Sea World of Texas
San Antonio, TX
RCK automated control of the life support systems for the major exhibits and provided
coordination with a centralized wastewater recovery system. Most recent project,
Energy Management System for chilled water distribution and air handling equipment.
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