About MorWater

About Andrew

Andrew Mortlock - Director: I have completed turn-key projects for mining, municipal water & wastewater, and industrial waste water solutions in over a dozen countries throughout 25+ years in the industry.

For the past 15 years my focus has been on containerised water treatment plants for mainly mining applications.

Partnerships

Based in Thailand, MorWater can offer premium containerised or packaged water treatment plants by partnering with local Thai Georg Fischer distributor Vicchi Engineering in Bangkok.

Both GF and Grundfos Thailand have shown support for my vision and offered generous OEM pricing to help keep initial pricing competitive.

Business Philosophy

I have designed and quoted hundreds of bespoke WTPs when a handful of designs would have covered 90+% of them. Even raw water sources like process water dams can be treated with the same equipment as bore water in most cases. I know I've got my work cut out, but I want to standardise the filtration plant, and not in 0.5m/hr incremental variants; if you require 37.5m3/hr, you’ll need the 50m3/hr plant, and If I don't have to design and engineer a new plant with bespoke documentation and test procedures++, I’ll sell it to you cheaper than the 37.5m3/hr plant anyway, guaranteed.

For the same reason I will not seek the sharpest pricing from every supplier in town, so I will not tender or quote to ‘preferred equipment lists’ or similar. I believe in partnering with GF piping systems including their Signet range of instrumentation, flange to flange throughout our range we can offer a far simpler service and supply chain solution than carrying a certain range of flow meters, levels sensor, and analytical instruments. You get your valves, o'rings, flow meters, pressure transducers and pH probes++ from the same guys, and they’re everywhere.

I have selected Grundfos as our pump partner not only for their industry acknowledged quality, but equally for the reason above. There will not be a country where you cannot service a MorWater plant. In smaller or remote countries the local distributors for GF and Grundfos are often the same trading company.

As far as site standards for PLCs++, I believe these plants should be looked at like a chiller or other plant and equipment. You drop them down, plug them in and turn them on. You put this in and you get that out. Let me worry about how they do their thing. We have a handful of IO signals available like remote S/S, warnings and alarms, and these can be monitored over Ethernet or controlled through local IO terminals if required.

I do not want a spare parts business. I will organise the supply of the first spare parts order directly with local distributors to ensure they supply and stock the correct parts moving forward. I’d be happy to establish that connection as a part of the service as it can be painful if not addressed.

My end game is to convince a few of my old clients to forgo the tender process for plants that are all very nearly the same. Why tie up engineering resources reinventing the wheel, then making sure it's being built and tested properly? Why wait for VDDR, then wait some more for it to meet your standards? And not all reinventions are improvements.

I aim to offer compliant, performance guaranteed WTPs, 'off the shelf'. A price, a specification, and a lead time, that's it. AM

More About MorWater

Design Philosophy

I have always believed that the best design is the simplest design, and that you should start at the highest level with the very basics you need to get the job done, and work down from there until you can get it to perform reliably.

Anything you add after that is likely going to create a service or maintenance issue, potentially a warning or fault condition, so I assess the need for each very carefully before they get the nod.

Careful placement of sensors and knowing how to read their outputs can reduce the need for sensors. We use centrifugal feed/filtration pumps so the basic pressure and flow conditions tell us all we need to know about filter fouling. Capture a few cycles and you can provide pointers as to whether the current backwash cycle is optimised, or whether you may be doing it too often, not enough, or if a different backwash duration may benefit.

MorWater Range

As above, I'm not aiming for many variants. If a particular niche appears, yes, other than that, 5 & 10m3/hr skids, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200m3/hr Plants. Your plant fits in here somewhere, and I’m going to convince you to buy the big one, or a 100+50 for example.

I will start fleshing out the model range and work with Vicchi Engineering to provide pricing online across the range ASAP.

Vendor Data & Documentation Requirements (VDDR)

Detailed design on the 200m3/hr and 120m3/day plant has been completed, and when an order is placed and a deposit received the buyer will be sent a 'VDDR Package' containing all of the engineering and QA documentation typically required with similar vendor packages. As detailed design is completed on more models this will become available across the range.

Blank Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) sheets will be provided in the VDDR Package, with completed FAT sheets emailed to the client immediately after successful factory testing. A plant-specific Manufacturer's Data Report (MDR) will be provided prior to shipping.

I am hoping to spend as little time as possible in clarification meetings and trying to get drawings signed off, etc. My goal is to enhance and add to these 'VDDR Packages' until they meet or exceed any organisation's vendor documentation requirements.

What's Next?

I aim grow this site quickly. I have a keen interest in AI and I will add a handy AI WT Expert Chatbot who can walk you through our range and answer most water treatment queries.

I will add calculators I find useful.

I'm in the process of adding my 3D models to the website so users can zoom in a have a look around the plants. I will look for a solution with an 'ENTER VR' option. I am also a keen VR fan and find it helpful and pretty cool to walk around my designs and check service access and the general fit and feel of the layout.

WHAT'S NEXT FOR EQUIPMENT?

I am definitely going to stick one of the little skids into an air-conditioned/insulated 20' container with a Microfilter, 15kL Inbuilt HDPE Potable Water Tank, Grundfos Hydro MPC Booster Pump Set and Duty/Standby UVs. Fully self-contained, and it could turn almost any raw water source into WHO quality potable water and shower 30 people at a time for over an hour with it. This is a bit of a bug-bear for me, as I have quoted/tendered for well over 50 of these small 5-10m3/hr Potable WTPs and built more than 30 of them, all different.

I'm not trying to build Ferraris here, more Toyota Hilux. Rather than grow the range or add frills I'd prefer to direct our efforts at building these plants better and more efficiently, and with volume increase our buying power with our partners to keep the quality whilst reducing the price of our plants to the point where you'd be silly to buy anything else.

I'll keep dreaming! AM.