Water. desalination + reuse

ContraCt&tendernews Qatar MED/TC desalination plant goes to Tri-Tech business A 5,760 m3/d multiple-effect distillation thermocompression desalination plant is to be provided for a petrochemical plant in Qatar by Tri-Tech Holding Inc Tri-Tech Infrastructure LLC, the Chinese company���s US subsidiary, was awarded a US$ 8.3 million contract for the seawater desalination unit for the Utility Plant of Qatar Petrochemical Co Ltd (QAPCO) at Mesaieed Industrial City in Doha. The contract covers design, engineering, fabrication, commissioning, performance testing and on-site training for QAPCO���s technical personnel. Tri-Tech expects to deliver the desalination unit by November 2012. ClydeUnion pumps for Kindasa desalination expansion UK-based ClydeUnion Pumps has been awarded a contract by Kindasa Water Services to supply pumps for an additional train for the existing Kindasa SWRO desalination plant in Saudi Arabia. Under the contract, ClydeUnion Pumps will manufacture in their Glasgow facility a first-pass HP pump (BB3 380B FH x 4 stage), a HP Booster pump (CP 1A 60), a second-pass HP pump (Uniglide SDCH150/200) and a seawater intake pump (VTP SBWM560F), all provided in Super Duplex. The company���s success in supplying its proven BB3 high-pressure frames will be coupled with collaboration with a key industry player providing power-recovery Pelton turbines. The Kindasa contract increases the current ClydeUnion Pumps unit population at site with this full additional train for the SWRO plant. BeL to supply pressure vessels for Perth II extension BEL Composite Industries Ltd., a part of BEL Group, announced on 7 November 2011 receipt of a letter of award from Southern Seawater Alliance (SSWA) for supply of pressure vessels for the second part of the Southern Seawater desalination plant at Binningup near Perth, Australia. After the successful performance of BEL in the original plant in 2009, BEL will produce and supply during the next months nearly 2,500 pressure vessels, all of them ASME Sec X stamped. The plant is an enlargement of the first phase that was commissioned in the beginning of September, 2011. The second part is a duplicate of the first plant, designed and built by the same Alliance members - Tecnicas Reunidas, Valoriza Agua, AJ Lucas, WorleyParsons and Water Corporation. The new plant���s capacity is 135,000 m3/d and it is planned to be completed by the end of 2012. | 6 | desalination & water reuse | February-March 2012 Tender for Chennai RO water-reuse plant feasibility Bids are due by 22 February 2012 for a prefeasibility study for a 45,000 m3/d membrane-based tertiary wastewater treatment plant in Chennai, India. Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) issued a consultancy tender (CNT/ICB/GOTN/TTRO/ CON/ 2146 /2011-12) on 9 January 2012. The successful tenderer will conduct prefeasibility studies, preparation of detailed project report, bid documents and evaluation of bids for a reverse-osmosis tertiary treatment plant to be built at Koyambedu. A CMWSSB official told the Times of India that this would be a pilot project. ���We supply 50 MLD of pure water to industries. This can be saved if treated sewage is supplied to them. They can use it for non-drinking purposes, including for toilets.��� Vapour compression desalination plants for Indian oilfield Texas-based MECO, which supplies desalination equipment to the offshore, pharmaceutical and military sectors, announced in December 2011 that it would be designing and constructing two vapour compression (VC) desalination plants for an oilfield off the Indian coast. Two MECO 1250M3C VC desalination plants, which supply 115 m3/d each, will be used for the production of drinking and process water in the Mumbai High oilfield located in the Arabian Sea approximately 160 km west of Mumbai. The company also recently won an order for two reverse-osmosis trains to supply 392 m3/d of drinking and process water to an oil and gas company off Russia���s Sakhalin island in sub-zero temperatures and an earthquake zone.

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