Boiler Water Treatment

Flexible boiler water solutions that produce reliable and low cost steam supplies

Quality boiler feedwater requires more than chemical treatments. You need customized programs that ensure reliable, cost-effective steam supplies for your critical business processes. GE's boiler water treatment solutions bundle chemicals, consumables, equipment, and value-added services. You benefit from patented chemistry and some of the best-known and most trusted boiler water treatment technologies.

What this means for you:

  • Maximum process productivity
  • Lower cost of operation
  • Long service life for your critical assets
  • Safe and environmentally sound operation
  • Ability to focus on your core business

Explore this application

Cooling Water Treatment

Extend the life of your assets and save money with improved heat transfer

Whether for open-recirculating (in cooling towers), closed-loop, or once-thru systems, GE maximizes heat transfer efficiency and protects your equipment.
GE’s approach to cooling water treatment is a combination of patented chemistry, decades of expertise, and GE’s innovative TrueSense* online monitoring and analytics platform.

What this means for you:

  • System efficiency
    • Improved heat transfer efficiency in critical operating equipment
  • Environmental profile
    • Optimized/reduced water usage
    • Reduced treatment costs and blowdown/discharge volume
  • Operating costs
    • Reduced power consumption, maintenance requirements and outages/turnarounds
    • Extended run-lengths

Explore this application

Wastewater Treatment

Meet regulations by safely recovering wastewater for reuse or discharge

Safeguarding natural resources (like rivers, lakes, and more) is an important part of wastewater treatment solutions. As your business partner, GE helps customers meet ever increasing environmental, regulatory, and financial pressures.

What this means for you:

  • Leverage a complete set of solutions (chemical, equipment, and services) from one provider
  • Contribute to a sustainable water supply that reduces discharge by increasing reuse opportunities
  • Reduce energy consumption and footprint with innovative membrane solutions
  • Treat and clean severely impaired water
  • Improve uptime while reduce maintenance time and costs

Explore this application

Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD)

Manage regulatory pressures and meet water reuse goals with an effective ZLD wastewater treatment plan

GE offers complete thermal and non-thermal ZLD solutions to manage tough-to-treat wastewaters. GE’s proprietary evaporators, brine concentrators, and crystallizers can help recover more than 95% of your plant’s wastewater while reducing the remaining brine as a product or solid.

What this means for you:

Zero liquid discharge technologies help plants meet discharge and water reuse requirements, enabling your business to:

  • Meet stringent cooling tower blowdown and flue gas desulfurization (FGD) discharge regulations
  • Treat and recover valuable products from waste streams
  • Maximize water reuse with GE’s Aquasel* non-thermal brine concentrator
  • Better manage produced water

Explore this application

Mobile Water Treatment

Flexible mobile water offerings let you focus on your business while GE takes care of the water

With just a call, GE provides water when and where you need it. GE’s on-demand mobile water treatment solutions include reverse osmosis, filtration, demineralization, softening, and deoxygenation treatment.
Deployable within two hours, GE’s trucks can help with steam blows, plant start-ups/shutdowns, replacement of conventional resin-based systems, and much more.

What this means for you:

Our 24x7 service centers offer:

  • Rapid deployment of mobile assets
  • Production continuity, productivity gains
  • No capital investment to meet seasonal demands
  • Reduced time and costs for repairs and new plant or process startups
  • Guaranteed water quality and quantity
  • Extended asset life with high-quality water treatment
  • Safe operation and regulatory compliance

Explore this application

Monitoring Solutions

Real-time monitoring and expertise that drives down operating costs and maintains asset reliability

The management of water and chemicals is imperative to your business operations. The most basic need is to measure key parameters and ensure the reliable delivery of chemistry to your assets.

The next step is to go beyond monitoring and use software analytics to optimize your performance and costs. GE’s sophisticated automation, control, and monitoring software can help your team increase performance while keeping operations sage.

What this means for you:

  • Remote monitoring, alarm management, and diagnostics to compliment your local GE experts
  • Real-time testing that frees up your personnel to be more productive in other areas
  • Efficient management of water use and consumption
  • Consistent application of the right amount of chemicals
  • Smart alarming on events and trends before they threaten production or assets

Explore this application

Outsourced, emergency, and on-going water solutions to help decrease overhead and produce more power

The global demand for power continues to accelerate, especially in fast-growing regions like China, India, and the Middle East. To save money while meeting emissions regulations, existing fuel resources must be maximized while alternative solutions are fully explored. GE helps boost your power generation by using cost-efficient and regulation-compliant water treatment technologies.


What this means for you:

GE’s broad solutions portfolio offers:

  • Fuels and combustion solutions
  • Cooling system treatment
  • Treatment of cooling tower blowdown
  • Condensate and service water treatment
  • Boiler feed treatment and makeup water
  • Wastewater treatment
  • Water recycle and reuse
  • Zero liquid discharge
  • Water quality measurement
  • System upgrades and retrofits
  • Mobile/emergency water treatment
For resources specific to the Power industry,
explore the Document Library

GE Works for Power

Learn how GE provides integrated solutions to manage power and water needs.
Download the brochure


Recently Published

Two power plants in Texas (US) have selected GE’s water recycling technology.
Read more

PowerGen 2012

Highlights from PowerGen 2012

GE shows off new solutions in mobile ultrafiltration and safety products for coal power plants.

Watch the video

Water demand to double by 2035

This National Geographic article outlines how the global increase of coal power, along with adoption of new technologies, will drive the largest share of water consumption for energy use through 2035.

Read the story
GE EDR System

GE solves ash pond capacity issue

Korean Southeast Power Co. chose GE’s electrodialysis reversal (EDR) system to handle high suspended solids in their wastewater stream.


Register for free download

Power Industry Applications

Power Industry Products


ABMet for Selenium Removal

Reduce total selenium concentration to below 5 ppb with a single step process

Get product details

Build, Own, Operate (BOO) and Water Outsourcing

Focus on your core business while GE runs your water plant

Get product details

PRO Series Reverse Osmosis

Quickly treat brackish water with reverse osmosis

Get product details

Mobile Water Treatment Systems

Deploying trailers to your pre-planned or emergency outage in less than 2 hours

Get product details

Wastewater Evaporators

Wastewater management to meet strict regulations and overcome environmental concerns

Get product details

PowerTreat Coal Dust Control

Reduce dusting and oxidation in your power plant

Get product details

FuelSolv - Fuel Treatment Chemicals

Reduce deposition and slagging plus improve combustion with FuelSolv*

Get product details