RO comes out top of fight for Shuqaiq
- From: Vol 7, Issue 8 (August 2006)
- Category: General
- Region: Middle East
- Country: Saudi Arabia
- Related Companies: ACWA Power, Al-Jomaih, Doosan Heavy Industries, Fisia Italimpianti, General Electric (GE), Gulf Investment Corporation, ILF Consulting Engineers, Lahmeyer International, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mott MacDonald, National Power Co, PB Power, Powertek Bhd, Sidem and Toyobo
ACWA Power Projects looks set to continue its clean sweep of the Saudi desalination programme with a stunning bid for the Red Sea power and water project.
A consortium of ACWA Power Projects, Mitsubishi Corporation and Gulf Investment Corporation has delivered a knockout bid based on reverse osmosis technology for the 212,000m3/d (47 MIGD) and 850MW Shuqaiq phase two independent power and water plant. In a three-way fight between the main desalination technologies, reverse osmosis (RO) beat multiple effect distillation (MED) and multi-stage flash ...
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