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Aquatech Awarded $36m Thermal Desalination Project


8 November 2009
DUBAI — Aquatech, a water purification technology provider for industrial and infrastructure, has been awarded a $36 million contract to design and supply a seawater desalination system for the Abu Qir Thermal Power Plant in Egypt.

The client, West Delta Electricity Production Company, and consultant, PGESCo  specified a multiple effect distillation, or MED, technology for uninterrupted water supply to boilers after carefully studying all available desalination technology options, Aquatech said in a statement.

Aquatech’s MED technology has been developed and improved over decades. Aquatech’s scope includes design, equipment supply, testing, and commissioning of two MED units.

Earlier this year, Aquatech was awarded an industrial wastewater reuse project for a chemical facility by TCI Sanmar Chemicals LLC, located at Port Said, also in Egypt.

The system will be for the treatment and reuse of various wastewater streams generated from the process units, the company said in a statement. Aquatech has demonstrated the advantages of its technology in projects for the recycle and reuse of water from effluents of refineries, power plants, petrochemical complexes, oil field produced water, and tre ated sewage, with recoveries exceeding 94 per cent in some installations.

  issacjohn@khaleejtimes.com

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