Water isn’t just a precious commodity in the Gulf region, it’s critical to every part of the economy and infrastructure.
As one of the region’s leading water solution providers, GWTS not only understands and enables this role, but also delivers it in ways that are environmentally sustainable and technologically advanced.
When it comes to water, we are the answer. No matter how your organisation uses this fundamental resource, we can help you become greener, cleaner and more cost-efficient.
GWTS provides a full range of environmental water management solutions and services, all aimed at sustaining natural resources via advanced technology. We cover the complete water cycle, from helping to deliver high-purity supply to treating contaminated water, and everything in between.
Founded in the UAE in 2011 and owned by a female Emirati, we offer proven, high-quality plant and equipment solutions, professional services (such as testing, cleaning and training) and an extensive range of chemicals to numerous sectors and organisations across the region.
Our clients range from malls to hospitals, airports to hotels, as well as major industry and utilities providers.
We also proudly partner some of the world’s most renowned technology providers, including Rochester Midland Corporation and ATG, in order to remain at the leading edge of sustainable water treatment.
Our vision
To provide effective solutions that sustain essential natural resources.
Our mission
To build partnerships with resource reliant organisations.
Our values
Innovation
We always look to provide the optimal technical solution for a client’s specific application.
Partnership
We aim to build collaborative relationships with our customers, suppliers and partners.
Integrity
We are a trusted solution provider, and adhere to the principle of ‘do the right thing’.
Value Creation
We create commercial, technical and competency value for our clients.
1. Founded in 2011.
2. A Khalifa fund company.
3. Emirati-owned.
4. Certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OSHAS 18001.
5. At the forefront of environmental and technological approaches to water treatment.
6. Provides high quality total water management solutions, including plant and equipment solutions, professional services and an extensive range of chemical products.
7. Partners with numerous organisations globally, including Rochester Midland Corporation.
8. Focused on affordable solutions that help organisations to be greener, cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective in their use of water.
9. Present across the Middle East region.
10. Operates a testing and development laboratory.
We provide a suite of professional services to meet all your operational needs. Not only are these extremely affordable, but in many instances lead to cost savings through efficiencies and optimised approaches.
Our high-quality team of waste treatment engineers, chemical technologists and environmental experts has more than 20 years’ experience in this region.
Services include:
– Water management and risk assessments.
– Monitoring and analysis programmes.
– Operation and maintenance contracts.
– Training and support.
– Consultative site visits to test, check and enhance your equipment and system(s).
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Retail, food and hospitality
– Buildings with cooling towers, chillers and district cooling systems.
– Restaurants, kitchens and other hygiene-critical areas, where we assist with potable water disinfection, grease trap cleaning and food preservation.
– All types of swimming pools.
Government and medical providers
– Buildings with cooling towers, chillers and district cooling systems.
– Institutions using softeners, filters and chemicals for boilers and calorifiers.
Utility and service providers
– Institutions using softeners, filters and chemicals for boilers and calorifiers.
Industry
– Industries needing effluent treatment: oil and gas, ready mix and heavy metal removal.
– Companies producing or using high-quality water: drinking water bottling, dialysis water, demineralised water, softening resins.
– Potable water producers: filtration, UV and ozone disinfection, filter media.
– Industrial, farm and domestic RO plants.
– The oil and gas sector and other process industries that need process chemicals.
We are internationally certified for quality, health, safety and environment; ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OSHAS 18001.
First, we can:
– Help source and approve water-testing laboratories for you.
– Perform and interpret test results.
– Provide application specific operating guidelines.
Second, our partnership with Rochester Midland Corporation enables us to offer a systematic approach to installing, commissioning, operating and maintaining your water assets. For example:
– Testing, cleaning and servicing of:
– Cooling towers and chiller systems.
– Heat exchangers.
– Boilers.
– Pipework systems.
– Effluent treatment and sewage systems.
– Drinking water and swimming pools.
– Troubleshooting and revamping of sewage and industrial water treatment plants.
– Online legionella testing and disinfection.
– Process service support.
GWTS has a comprehensive range of chemicals and consumables for water treatment. These products are among the most effective and environmentally friendly on the market, and combine with our technical support and expertise to give you the best possible solutions.
Main product types
Our products include: chemicals for inhibiting scale and corrosion; antifouling agents; salt dispersants; iron and oil dispersants for cooling towers, boilers and closed circuits; disinfectants and corrosion inhibitors for drinking water; chemicals for swimming pool treatment.
We also provide chemicals for RO desalination, including RO antiscalants, antifoulants, biocides and cleaning chemicals.
Other specialist ranges include pipeline preservation, cationic and anionic poly-electrolytes for water and waste-water treatment, defoamers, degreasers, odour control chemicals, chemical disinfectants and oxidising chemical for waste water.
Strong and sharing information is critical to effective, efficient water treatment. In today’s world, this needs to be done online – in order that data can be accessed and communicated anytime, anywhere.
Though our partnership with Rochester Midland Corporation, we are able to offer a state-of-the-art online toolbox, AssetGuard.
AssetGuard ensures the key information on your programmes is readily available in a central, secure, online account:
– Safety data sheets.
– Product data sheets.
– Equipment details.
– Operational procedures and manuals.
– Test results.
– Service reports.
– Laboratory analysis and inspection reports.
– Pictures.
– Programme reviews.
It can be applied to cooling towers, boilers and process water and wastewater programmes. AssetGuard protects and enhances your equipment, while also providing energy and cost savings through improved heat transfer efficiency.
Boiler water treatment
Customised and specialised, our chemicals are designed to complement engineered water treatment and optimise your plant’s performance.
Our range includes chemical solutions for low, medium and high-pressure boilers to prevent deposits and corrosion in pre-boiler, boiler and post-boiler systems. In addition, our unique DEHA-based volatile oxygen scavengers offer superior protection against corrosion, even in condensate lines, and we offer complete treatment for specific corrosion problems, through filming and neutralising amines.
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– Phosphate treatment programme.
– Tannin-based programme.
– Chelant programme.
– Sludge conditioners.
– Anti-foams.
– Oxygen scavengers.
Cooling water treatment
We offer customised and specialised products for cooling water plants – again, designed to work alongside engineered water treatment, and to optimise performance.
Our engineers will survey your plant and system requirements, monitor your treatment programmes and regularly evaluate the results in order to fine tune performance.
– For open recirculating cooling water systems, we offer a range of environmentally friendly products.
– We provide inhibitors that control corrosion, scaling and fouling over a variety of water quality and system conditions (including engine cooling systems, hot water systems, chilled water systems and furnace cooling systems).
– We can improve your system’s cooling efficiency through non-polluting chemicals, including FDA-approved potable water treatment chemicals, metal sequesterants, corrosion inhibitors, scale retardants, antifoulants/dispersants and water disinfectants.
– Our variety of biodegradable biocides control growth of algae, fungi and bacteria.
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– Corrosion inhibitors
– Scale inhibitors/dispersants
– Bio-dispersants
– Oil dispersants
– Silica inhibitors
– Iron specific dispersants
– Oxidising biocides
– Non-oxidising biocides/algaecides
– Multi-functional products
We offer a range of high molecular weight water-soluble polymers, that have a high flocculating power towards suspended solids. By controlling their composition, molecular size and ionic charge, we can precisely address your specific system’s needs.
These products are ideal for:
– Colloidal silica removal.
– Sewage and effluent treatment and organic removal.
– Sludge dewatering and thickening.
– Primary and secondary sedimentation.
– Odour control chemicals.
– Antifoam and defoamers.
– Oil field services applications.
– Enhanced oil recovery.
RO desalination
Our range includes:
– RO antiscalants for sea water and brackish water RO plants.
– Biocides for cleaning and slime control.
– High pH and low pH cleaners.
– Membrane preservatives.
– Membrane bioreactor fouling control agents.
Swimming pools
Whatever type of pool you have, GWTS offers products to help keep it crystal clear and safe, maximising its use and minimising running costs:
– Calcium hypochlorite granular.
– pH Control.
– Disinfecting chlorines.
– Algaecides.
– Flocculants.
– Filters.
Marine Industry
Water quality while at sea is vitally important. GWTS provides chemical solutions for most applications, including tank and cargo holds. Our products include:
– Cleansers.
– Descalers.
– Solvents.
– Flocculants.
– Filters.
– Liquids, soaps, foams and powders.
Working with others is fundamental to our philosophy. The partnerships that we’ve forged enable us to access the best products, services and thinking in sustainable water treatment from across the world – boosting what we offer, boosting how you benefit.
Rochester Midland Corporation
Our key strategic partnership with Rochester Midland Corporation has led to significant benefits for both organisations. We’re proud to be part of this international network.
A family-owned business originally founded in 1888, RMC is a global expert in sustainable integrated solutions for water treatment, and a leading manufacturer of specialty chemicals for sectors such as food sanitation, industrial cleaning and water treatment.
Its water energy programmes for cooling towers, boilers and other closed loop programmes save energy through improved heat transfer efficiency, by removing existing deposits and preventing future deposits. Their wastewater treatment programmes increase water reuse, decrease solid waste and ensure compliance with wastewater discharge requirements.
Long involved with green initiatives and other sustainable efforts, RMC began to formalise its sustainability efforts in 2010, by publishing its first sustainability report.
Established in 1981, UK-based company atg UV Technology has over 35 years’ experience in UV disinfection/treatment systems. Their solutions have been successfully installed in thousands of applications across a range of industries – from drinking water, oil and gas, industrial, aquatics and marine to food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and aquaculture.
atg’s solutions use ultraviolet (UV) light operating between 200 and 280 nanometres (nm); commonly known as germicidal UV-C light. UV-C light can protect water against all known species of harmful microorganisms and viruses, by causing irreparable damage to – respectively – their DNA or RNA, rendering them harmless. In particular, UV-C light is a proven and effective barrier for the 17 known chlorine-resistant waterborne microorganisms, including cryptosporidium and giardia.
Considered one of the best disinfection technologies available, UV is now used throughout the world for both primary and secondary disinfection of water in a vast range of industries and applications. By partnering with atg, we are able to offer it to our clients.
Retail, food and hospitality
Logos for Abu Dhabi Mall, Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, Tilal Liwa Hotel, Al Wadha Mall, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Al Foah
Government and medical providers
Logos for Khalifa Medical City, Cleveland Clinic, Mafraq Hospital, UAE Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Zayed Higher Organisation for Humanitarian Care & Special Needs, Abu Dhabi Higher Colleges of Technology
Utility and service providers
Logos for Emaar, Adeeb, Emirates International Facility Management, G Alfar, Gisco, Entraco, Arabi Company, Al Dhafra Co-operative Society, Euro Emirates, Al Jaber, Gulf Utility, Joint Tank Services, Emrill, China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation, Unibeton, Strata
Industry
Logos for Adnoc, Gasco, Adnoc, Shams Power, Samsung
Challenge
District cooling operators have to ensure high HSE standards at their towers, such as zero legionella contamination. They’re also mandated to reduce water consumption, increase plant availability, assure aesthetically high standards and – at the same time – cut operational costs, for example using less manpower and fewer chemicals. It isn’t easy to always get this balance right, especially given the final factor.
Solution
GWTS can help. We have provided our innovative approach to a significant number of cooling towers, for several major district cooling plant operators.
We apply foam-pumping technology with specialised Rochester Midland Corporation dispersants: a technique that’s safe, environmentally friendly, clean and fast. The towers are disinfected, and their nozzles, tanks and bases cleaned, with no resulting sludge. The outcome is even better than the alternative labour-intensive methods.
Benefits
– Cooling tower cells are in commission for longer: shutdown time is cut from 4 weeks to just 3 days.
– It takes fewer people: a team of just 10 is needed, compared to the previous 50, reducing costs and safety risks.)
– It’s better for the environment: instead of generating 8 tonnes of sludge per cell, it’s sludge-free.
– Cell availability rises as a result: from 88% to 99%.
GWTS Chemical solutions
Heat Exchangers: Removing scale
Challenge
In heat exchanger fouling – whether it’s with treated sewage effluent water, seawater or regular municipality water with added minerals – high energy costs, tube failures, operational difficulties and corrosion are often present.
To overcome this, our client was searching for a solution that could be applied with minimum process downtime or negative metallurgical effects, irrespective of the tube material: brass, stainless steel, aluminium and/or titanium.
Solution
We used ‘green certified’ and proven products from Rochester Midland Corporation in a fully automated ‘plug-and-play’ concept, that required minimum connection time. The system offers continuous monitoring, thus giving efficient and cost effective chemical application. Cycle time was reduced to a single shift with the fully closed loop system in operation, maximising plant availability. The results exceeded the client’s expectations.
During 2016, more than 100 heat exchangers and condensers were cleaned and re-commissioned using this solution.
Benefits
– No metal losses of heat exchanger tubes or plates.
– Exchangers last longer, with an extended lifecycle.
– Heat exchanger turnaround timescales are hugely reduced.
– Quick set-up.
– Significant cost and manpower savings.
Challenge
ADCO (ADNOC Group) operates several drilling and operational sites in remote desert locations. As water availability is a significant challenge, water recycling is a significant requirement.
One such operation is the Mendor Field. Home to approximately 5,000 people and 140km from any water source.
Solution
Our comprehensive integrated water solution addressed operational, personnel and accommodation needs throughout the site’s lifecycle, from initial study through to operations and maintenance. We considered all effluents – from laundry to kitchen, grey water and sewage – in a ‘zero liquid discharge’ approach.
We’re now applying a number of similar concepts, in several diverse places: the EXPO 2020 site, BeAAH construction site, Al Foah Dates Industry.
Benefits
– Capital expenditure recouped in 6 months.
– Simpler logistics scope, with consequential reduced safety risk.
– Improved environmental footprint.
Challenge
Most forms of power generation depend on turbines, which in turn depend on water-cooling condensers. These condensers provide the ideal temperature and conditions for microbiological contaminants to grow, especially bacteria. Some of these microorganisms present a public health risk, others can corrode systems – but all require controlling. Chemical disinfection, while effective in many cases, is not always the answer.
Solution
GWTS has partnered with ATG to provide UV light-based disinfection treatment. When exposed to certain wavelengths of UV light, bacteria cannot reproduce, which is ultimately a far more effective disinfecting approach. For example, health risk-carrying microorganisms such as cryptosporidium and mycobacterium are resistant to chlorine chemical treatment, but not to UV light.
Benefits
– Entirely chemical-free solution, with no health and safety or environmental risks.
– Easy to install and operate: simple chambers are attached to a cooling system. As water flows through these, it is exposed to UV-C emitting lamps. All a client needs to provide is electricity.
– It’s cost-effective. A single pass through the chambers suffices, therefore not impacting the operational efficiency of the turbine.
