Helping Surat become a smart city

Located on the coast of Gujarat state in India, Surat is the country’s diamond capital and textile hub, home to over 5,000 diamond merchants and roughly six lakh power looms that process roughly 20 million meters of fabric every day. As the city aims to build a sustainable future as a Smart City, one of the major issues it is trying to tackle is optimizing the water-intensive textile industry by bringing in better water management. ABB is enabling the digitalization of the entire water management system of Surat with its GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) enabled AquaMaster flowmeters to measure water consumption in real-time which will enable equitable distribution and optimize water management for the benefit of the population of Surat city.

Enabling the world’s largest copper mine in the world’s driest desert to minimize its use of fresh water 

The Minera Escondida copper mine is in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest on earth and faced the challenge of having to eliminate the use of lake water and natural resources from their mining process. To support the need for reliable water supply, seawater desalination was chosen as the preferred method to supply water to the mine, providing greater water security and reducing the mine’s consumption of non-renewable freshwater. ABB delivered an integrated automation and electrical solution, using a reverse-osmosis process, to provide desalinated water to the copper mine.

Ensuring energy efficient desalination of water

Drinking water is a scare resource in the world. In parts of the world where drinking water must be produced from saltwater requires a lot of energy consumption. To lower energy costs and improve resilience of the pumping system ABB offers energy efficient motors and drives to tackle this problem.