BIG PLANTS
- From: Vol 11, Issue 5 (May 2010)
- Category: Need to know
- Region: Middle East
- Country: Algeria, Israel and Saudi Arabia
- Related Companies: AquaSwiss, Energy Recovery Inc., Flowserve, Hyflux and IDE Technologies
The 1,025,000m3/d Ras Azzour plant will be the largest in the world (although a pedant might point out that it is essentially two co-located plants: one thermal (expected to be 725,000m3/d) and one membrane (expected to be 300,000m3/d).
* In that sense it is inferior to the Shoaiba 3 site, which includes an 880,000m3/d thermal plant with a co-located 150,000m3/d RO plant (i.e. a total capacity of 1,030,000m3/d).
* There is no doubt, however, that IDE Technologies (and its co-developer Israel Housing and Construction) has just opened the largest membrane desalination plant ...
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