| 18 | Desalination & Water Reuse | May-June 2014
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Chiara Fabbri, water project manager, and Corrado Sommariva,
managing director Middle East, ILF Consulting Engineers; and
William Chang, executive managing director, Emirates Sembcorp Water &
Power Company
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Editor's Note: The design of the new extension to the SWRO
plant at the Fujairah 1 desalination plant in the UAE has
a number of interesting elements including a dissolved air
flotation unit that will be one of the largest in the desalination
industry.
EMIRATES SEMBCORP Water & Power Company
(ESC) owns and operates the Fujairah 1 Indpendent
power and desalination plant (F1 IWPP) in Fujairah,
UAE (pictured in Figure 1 below). The plant has a gross
power generation capacity of 893 MW and can produce
100 MIGD (454,600 m
3
/d) of desalinated water.
In June 2013, to enhance the availability and
reliability of the existing reverse osmosis (RO) plant in
red tide conditions and to generate additional potable
water, ESC began constructing a new 30 MIGD
(136,400 m
3
/d) seawater RO (SWRO) desalinated
water production facility, to add to the F1 IWPP's
Fujairah 1 Extension
SWRO:
Integration with MSF
leads to large savings
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Figure 1: Aerial view of Fujairah 1 plant before its SWRO extension.
