Water. desalination + reuse

PRojectS RecoRd-bReaking MSf deSalination unit SailS foR Saudi Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has successfully completed fabrication of the world���s largest multi-stage flash (MSF) evaporator. The company announced on 1 December 2011 that it completed fabrication of the first of the eight evaporators for the Ras Al Khair Phase 1 seawater desalination plant and shipped the unit from the company���s Changwon Plant to Saudi Arabia. The company won the order for the plant for US$ 1.76 billion from Saline Water Conversion Corporation in September 2010. The MSF unit is capable of producing 91,000 m3/d of desalinated water, a volume enough for consumption by 300,000 people, making it the largest unit capacity in the world. The evaporator is also the world���s largest in size, measuring 123 m long x 33.7 m wide, and weighs 4,150 t. adelaide deSalination conSoRtiuM fined by Sa WateR SA Water has imposed financial penalties on the builder of the 100,000 m3/d Adelaide seawater desalination in South Australia for failing to deliver water on time. Adelaide Aqua, the consortium comprising Acciona Agua, McConnell Dowell Constructors, Abigroup Contractors and Trility, produced the first water from the initial 50,000 m3/d section in October 2011, almost a year late. Water from the second half of the project is due by the end of 2012. SA Water issued this statement: ���The contract between SA Water and AdelaideAqua includes provision for specific financial consequences flowing from delayed completion of the First Water milestone. SA Water is enforcing those financial consequences in its administration of the contract payment process.��� conSolidated SeekS to Sell Mexican deSalination Stake Caribbean-based Consolidated Water Co is looking to sell its stake in the 100 MGD (378,500 m3/d) Rosarito desalination project in Baja California, Mexico. in bRief ____ For more details, visit www.desalination.biz __ The project, near the US border, is intended to supply drinking water to northern Baja California and southern California, USA. Reporting on its third quarter operating results, released on 9 November 2011, Consolidated CEO Rick McTaggart said, ���NSC Agua, the joint venture company carrying out the development of the Rosarito project, has been unable to secure additional funding for the project and to address the remaining uncertainties associated with this project in a timely manner.��� As a result, said McTaggart, Consolidated had given a thirdparty related to its NSC Agua partner, the Norte Sur Agua investment group, an option to purchase its interest in NSC. If this option was not exercised, he added, Consolidated would evaluate other alternatives, which may include seeking other buyers, restructuring NSC Agua or ceasing operations related to the Rosarito project. l a more optimistic note, the CEO had previously On announced that Consolidated had begun delivering water from its new 4.8 MGD (18,168 m3/d) Blue Hills expansion in the Bahamas, which had been accomplished in a record time of nine months from the contract award to the date of initial water deliveries. Veolia inStalling eVaPoRatoR in albeRta oil SandS Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies is currently installing an evaporator/crystallizer system at Southern Pacific Resource Corp���s STP-McKay project currently under way in Northern Alberta, Canada. The modular system consists of deoiling equipment and an evaporator that will treat water produced by a steam-assisted gravity drainage system used to extract 12,000 barrels/d of oil from the Alberta oil sands. The evaporator and crystallizer vessels were shipped prefabricated and were placed on site in the fourth quarter of 2011. Pumps, heat exchangers and other ancillary equipment are also modularized as ���plug and play��� components that comprise nearly the entire system. It is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2012. caRlSbad agReeMent foR june? A water-purchase contract for the Carlsbad desalination project in California, USA, could be ready for public scrutiny by April 2012, with possible approval by the client San Diego County Water Authority in June 2012. Scott Maloni, for developers Poseidon Resources Corp, told D&WR on 2 January 2012 that ���a June 2012 execution date is our best understanding of the schedule based on the input we have received from the CWA staff���. auStRalian/koRean SolaR jV Planned A joint venture between Oakmall Pty Ltd of Queensland, Australia, and Doosan of the Republic of Korea is planning a 265,000m3/d Seawater Desalination plant in Cyprus using solar technology. This operation will have a zero carbon footprint and utilise solar thermal technology to provide energy for multi-stage flash distillation. | 24 | Desalination & Water Reuse | February-March 2012 Study aPPRoVed foR Michigan Plant Bay City in Michigan, USA, approved on 5 December 2011 the appointment of consultants Lockwood, Andrews & Newman Inc to evaluate construction of a new US$ 50 million membrane plant at the site of the city���s existing water treatment plant. The study will also examine how equipment at the existing plant could be used in the new membrane plant and compile a project plan. oSMoflo coMMiSSionS 4,000 M3/d Plant A 4,000 m3/d seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant has been commissioned in Whyalla, South Australia, for steel manufacturer OneSteel. Provided by Osmoflo, the plant will replace water currently drawn from the over-subscribed river Murray through the Morgan-Whyalla pipeline. Osmoflo has financed, designed and built the desalination plant and will operate it for OneSteel for a period of 10 years.

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