Middle East Business: Emicool leads the way with DTS technology – Gulf Digital News

Middle East Business: Emicool leads the way with DTS technology – Gulf Digital News

Emirates District Cooling Company (Emicool), a joint venture between Dubai Investments – a leading investment company listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and Actis - a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has become the first district cooling service provider to use a real-time leak detection system using the Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) technology.

The innovative leak detection system has helped reduce chilled water network losses by almost 70% as compared to previous years, the company said in a statement.

As part of the Chilled Water Network Leak Detection Project, Emicool with European based technology provider (Fast GmbH), is enabling early alerts of the underground leaks, reducing water loss and is identified as a unique concept compared to all existing leak detection concepts like flow meter, pressure etc.

The early detection of the water loss improves the plant’s operational efficiency by reducing additional chilled water required to overcome the network leaks.

“As a Company we are at an exciting crossroad of enhancing and facilitating seamless access and integrating latest technological know-how, harnessing the growing demand for district cooling. It is indeed a strategic business decision to be the early adopters of the Chilled Water Leak Detection System technology. Complementing and supporting the chilled