Spanish firm Abeongoa has received an order for the construction of a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in the industrial complex of the world’s largest ‘premium aluminium’ producer, Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA).
The project has been awarded by the Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) contractor SEPCOIII.
The project is located in Jebel Ali, a port town 35 kilometers south-west of Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Scope of Work included engineering, the supply of mechanical equipment, and instrumentation and control, as well as the supervision of the start-up of a desalination plant that will produce more than 41,000 m3/d of drinking water and water for industrial use. The plant includes pretreatment through dissolved air flotation (DAF) and gravity filters, a reverse osmosis system of five racks, post-treatment of calcite and CO2 beds, and the pumping of the product water. Additionally, it has a high purity water production system through an electrodeionization treatment (CEDI, Continuous Electro Deionization).
The project is part of the works that SEPCOIII is carrying out for EGA in its industrial complex, where treated water is currently obtained through thermal desalination processes, in particular multistage evaporation (MSF, Multi-stage flash distillation), which involves a higher energy cost and a greater space requirement than desalination by reverse osmosis
