Water. desalination + reuse

BUSINESS AECOM will design Al Ansab Phase 2 MBR Phase 2 of the Al Ansab Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), which will be based on membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology, and Azaiba Central Pump Station (CPS) will be designed by AECOM. A Rial 600,000 (US$ 1.56 million) contract for the design was awarded by Haya Water and will include conducting all necessary surveys and wastewater analysis, as well as assessing the existing STP and CPS, providing detailed engineering design documents for sewage and sludge treatment facilities and performing the evaluation process of the construction bids. AECOM's design will use flat-sheet can$ 4.7 million new orders for h2o Innovation MBR technology to degrade organic matter and remove solids, including harmful bacteria, from the water, allowing it to be reused for irrigation. When complete, the plant will be one of the largest flat-sheet MBR facilities in the world, capable of treating up to 22 MIGD (100,000 m3/d) of sewage per day. AECOM designed the original Al Ansab STP in 2002. The new project is expected to take nine months for completion and will involve teams from Oman, the US and the UAE. The only other qualified bidders were Halcrow and Parsons. South africa seawater desalination goes to veolia A 1,700 m3/d seawater desalination plant, upgradeable to 5,000 m3/d , is to be built in Lamberts Bay in South Africa for the Cederberg Municipality by Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies South Africa. Under a R 17 million (US$ 1.7 million) contract Veolia has to optimise standard plant designs to maintain a high designand-build quality. To ensure significant energy savings and reduced CO2 emissions, the plant will be fitted with a state-of-theart energy recovery system as part of the plant's initial capital investment. Pretreatment will be by dual-media coNtract BrIEfS ____ For more details, visit www.desalination.biz __ pressure filters, and the details of the operation and maintenance contract are currently being finalised with the municipality, says Veolia. The plant will help alleviate growing pressure on the region's water system and improve availability of high-quality water for it's nearly 40,000 residents. The Lamberts Bay contract follows six seawater desalination plants installed by Veolia along the Cape coastline since 2009 at Canon Rocks, Bushman's River Mouth, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, Mossel Bay and Saldanha. North SEa gaS ro packagE SUpplIEd By Uk compaNy A containerised reverse-osmosis water purification package is to be supplied for an unmanned gas platform in the North Sea by Salt Separation Services of Rochdale, UK. The £ 1.1 million contract was placed for the F15-A well operated by Total E&P Nederland, the performance of which has been reduced by salt deposition. Seawater is to be treated and injected to the well riser to dissolve the salt. ErI provIdINg ENErgy-rEcovEry IN ghaNa aNd omaN Spanish contractor Abengoa will use Energy Recovery Inc's pressure-exchanger technology in | 10 | Desalination & Water Reuse | August-September 2013 A 1.1 MGD (4,200 m3/d) ultrafiltration (UF) drinking water system for a community in British Columbia, Canada, is one of new contracts worth Can$ 4.7 million (US$ 4.6 million) announced on 6 June 2013 by H2O Innovation Inc. These new contracts bring H2O Innovation's order backlog for water treatment projects to Can$ 17.4 million (US$ 17.0 million) as of 5 June 2013. The company has continued to expand its systems sales network by adding a new sales manager in British Columbia. An institutional end-user in California has also selected H2O Innovation for the design, fabrication, assembly and delivery of an integrated membrane filtration system combining UF and reverse osmosis (RO) units. The proposed system will consist of a 0.5 MGD (1,900 m3/d) UF unit and a 0.7 MGD (2,650 m3/d) RO unit, which will treat concentrate from an electrodialysis reversal system to minimize waste volume for this zero-liquid-discharge facility. Working closely with the contractor the option was developed and proposed as a value-engineered option to the client. A nanofiltration (NF) system will be delivered for Everglades City in Florida to treat brackish water to produce 0.55 MGD (2,080 m3/d) of drinking water. Additionally, H20 Innovation will supply a 2-train RO system for an industrial water reclamation project in Iowa. This system has an overall capacity of 0.35 MGD (1,325 m3/d). Lastly, the company will also deliver a 2-train NF system for the production of drinking water in Québec. two desalination plants it is building in Ghana and Oman. The PX Pressure Exchanger® will save more than 52 million kWh/year in the 60,000 m3/d Nungua project in Ghana and the 45,460 m3/d expansion to the Barka I Independent Water & Power Project in Oman. caNadIaNS wIN ro coNtract IN pErU Canada's BluMetric Environmental Inc has been awarded a US$ 1.38 million contract to supply a reverse osmosis (RO) system to deliver high-quality process water at a new facility for a large diversified industrial chemicals producer in Peru. The RO system will provide up to 3,000 m3/d of processed water, helping to ensure reliable production and product quality.

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