Water. Desalination + reuse
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| 8 | Desalination & Water Reuse | August-September 2015 BUSINESS Metito contract quartet tops US$ 8 million Water management firm, Metito, has won contracts for four projects worth EGP 65 million (US$ 8.5 million) that will support the revival of Egypt's local tourism economy. The projects are located in major resorts and will be concluded over the course of this year to bolster the critical infrastructure at the resorts. They include seawater desalination installations and sewage treatment plants. Metito Africa managing director, Karim Madwar, said: "Egypt is a well-known holiday destination, but there are many resorts that cater not only to foreign tourists but also to Egyptians on vacation. These resorts require investment, particularly in their infrastructure, Madwar said, to make them attractive to the Egyptian tourists and to those who wish to invest in real estate through owning vacation houses/villas. "The new projects we are working on will play a key role in strengthening the appeal and value proposition of these resorts as we make safe, sustainable and clean water supply available from the outset." The plans align with steps taken by the Egyptian private and public sectors towards economic recovery in recent months which have revived infrastructure projects previously put on hold while also bringing on new ones. Two projects – at Hacienda Bay and Porto Sharm – include sewage treatment plants with a capacity of 1500m 3 /d each and provide also training for site personnel. A seawater desalination installation at Marassi will use reverse osmosis to produce potable water at 7,500 m³/d. Metito will provide operation and maintenance of the plant for one year. Previously, Metito installed a 5,000 m 3 /d reverse osmosis plant and a 3,000 m 3 /d sewage treatment plant at the same resort. The final project at the City Stars resort on the other hand involves a build, own and operate scheme for a 4,500 m 3 /d desalination plant and a 3,000 m 3 /d sewage treatment plant. Metito's services, in all sites, follow the stated environmental regulations and aim at lowering energy consumption per cubic meter of produced water. Metito will also be providing delivery of temporary desalination plants to meet high water demands expected this summer at various areas around Egypt. Oman prequalifies five groups for two desalination projects The Omani government has prequalified five utility-led consortiums for the next phase of a competitive tender for a license to build two major water desalination projects on Oman's Batinah coast. The state-run Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) named the following bidders as "unconditionally" qualified to participate in the tender: Abengoa Consortium, GdF Suez (International Power), Hyflux, Valoriza, and Veolia Consortium. Three other groups, led by GS Inima, Itochu and JGC, were "conditionally qualified" to join in the tender while Aqualia Consortium, Citic Consortium, Sojitz and Tedagua Consortium all failed to qualify said OPWP. Two successful bidders will each secure a license to develop, finance, design, engineer, construct, own, operate and maintain one of the two water-only schemes: the 281,000 m 3 /d Barka IWP, and the 250,000 m 3 /d Sohar IWP. Both projects are scheduled to begin commercial operation by 1 April 2018. Oil sand player commissions produced water desalination plant Encana Oil and Gas has designed and commissioned a reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant to treat produced water from its oil sand wells in the Moneta Divide, Wyoming. The Neptune Water Treatment Plant has the capacity to treat 4,000 m³/d of produced water, from some of the company's 300 wells operating in the Moneta Divide tight sands play. GE Water & Process Technologies provided sand filters and the RO system with membranes from Dow Water and Process Solutions which provided also ion exchange resin and its Optipore hydrocarbon adsorbent. GE said the system would handle feedwater total dissolved solids (TDS) at 7,500 mg/l to 13,500 mg/l with total suspended solids at 10 mg/l to 500 mg/l to provide a 90% recovery. Treated water with a TDS below 250 mg/l is reused in the field while the rest is piped to the Boysen reservoir. On the eve of the plant's commissioning, Encana announced that it would sell all of its local assets to Aethon Energy and its partner, Red Bird Capital. Xylem wins Los Angeles reuse deal Water technology company, Xylem, is to deliver a water reuse solution to help increase the supply of potable water in Los Angeles. Xylem's Wedeco MiPRO photo advanced oxidation process installed at Los Angeles' Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant will ensure it complies with California's groundwater recharge regulations for indirect potable reuse in the safest and most cost-effective way possible according to the manufacturer. Xylem's Wedeco MiPRO solution will be installed as a final barrier against pathogens and contaminants that cannot be removed by other technologies. Its installation is part of an expansion of the plant which includes microfiltration and reverse osmosis prior to MiPRO treatment. The customized solution, validated through pilot-scale testing at the plant, will be the first greenfield MiPRO design using ultraviolet (UV ) light with chlorine for indirect potable reuse Xylem said. The system will enable the plant to use its existing chlorination facility and will reduce significantly the overall cost relative to UV with hydrogen peroxide Xylem added. The plant treats wastewater from more than 100 businesses in the heavily industrialized Los Angeles harbour area and from 130,000 residents, including the communities of Wilmington, San Pedro and a portion of Harbor City. The plant purifies tertiary effluent to produce potable water for recharging drought-stressed drinking water aquifers.