Industries

Water and desalination

Pump and blower drives for desalination plants, treatment works and pumping stations, where a motor that stops means a city without water.

Aerial view of a water treatment works with circular basins

What matters here

Pumps use most of the electricity at a desalination plant or treatment works, and many run every hour of the year. That makes water the industry where motor efficiency pays back fastest: an IE5 motor on a drive typically saves its own price in energy within three years.

We supply motors for seawater intake, high-pressure and transfer pumps, aeration blowers, sludge mixers and clarifier drives, with drinking-water approved coatings where they touch potable water. Our Jebel Ali and Mussafah centres hold spare motors for the most common pump frames and can deliver a replacement anywhere in the UAE within 24 hours.

Recent project

Engineers lowering a new motor onto a pump with a gantry crane

Water and power utility, UAEWater

Fujairah seawater desalination plant

24 seawater pump motors replaced with IE5 motors and drives, two pump trains a weekend, while the plant kept supplying 380,000 people.

less pumping energy
31%
saved every year
3.2 GWh
years to pay back
2.6
Water and power utility, UAE
Twenty-four motors changed over twelve weekends and not one hour of lost supply. The energy figures came in better than the business case.
Saeed Al DhaheriAsset manager, water and power utility (Fujairah project)

Questions from water customers

Do you supply motors approved for drinking water?

Yes. Submersible and close-coupled motors with parts in contact with drinking water use coatings and seals approved to NSF/ANSI 61, and we build seawater versions in duplex stainless steel.

Can you work inside our outage windows?

Yes. Most of our water work is done over weekends or at night in the cooler months, when demand is lower, with our own crew and lifting gear, and a written plan agreed with your operations team.

Can you help build the energy case?

Yes. Send us a year of run hours and flows and we’ll model the saving for each pump, free of charge.

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