사우디 아라비아의 수력, 전력 서비스 제공 업체인 Marafiq는 Veolia Water와의 협정을 통해 사우디 아라비아 내 최대 규모의 초미세여과, 역삼투 기술을 혼합한 담수화 시설을 건설하겠다고 밝혔다.

이 협정으로 Veolia Water는 시설 디자인 및 건설에서 3억 1천만 달러, 10년간 운영 조건으로 9200만 달러의 순이익을 낼 것으로 예측되고 이후 20년 동안 협정을 연장할 수 있는 권리도 확보하게 된다.

17만 8000 m3/day의 성능과 함께, 이 새로운 시설은 Dow Chemical과 Saudi Aramco가 쥬바일(Jubail) 제 2 산업 도시에 조성한 사다라(Sadara) 유전화학 단지에 산업용수를 공급할 예정이다.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia

July 2, 2013

Saudi Arabian water and electricity services operator Marafiq has contracted Veolia Water to design, build and operate the largest ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis desalination plant in Saudi Arabia.

With this contract, Veolia Water will generate $310 million (€232 million) in revenue for the plant's design and construction, and $92 million (€69 million) in revenue for its operation for 10 years, with an option to extend the contract for a further 20 years.

With a capacity of 178,000 m3/day, this new plant will supply the Sadara petrochemical complex built by Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco in Jubail Industrial City II and is due to come on stream in June 2015.

Dow Chemical and Aramco will produce solvents and glues for the automotive and packaging industries at the Sadara site. The water supplied will be used in this immense facility's two cooling towers and as boiler feed water.

To meet strict water quality standards required by Marafiq, Veolia Water, through its subsidiary Sidem, has designed a plant combining two seawater treatment solutions: ultrafiltration (UF) and reverse osmosis (RO).

After an initial treatment phase involving dissolved air flotation to capture the suspended particles in the water and UF, the water will then be desalinated by RO membranes before being remineralized.

Present in Saudi Arabia since 1979 where it built the desalination plant for the city of Al Khobar in the Eastern Province, near the Persian Gulf, in 2010, Sidem had already built the first desalination plant in Jubail City. The 800,000 m3/day capacity plant uses Veolia's multiple-effect distillation (MED) process.

[출처: Waterworld / 2013년 7월 2일]