아부다비에서 세계 최초의 최대 규모 대양열 담수화 플랜트 개발을 계속하겠다는 계획이 발표된 지 며칠 지나지 않아 새 계약이 체결됐다.

스페인 기업인 Abengoa는 사우디 아라비아 왕국에 하루 6만㎥ 규모의 태양열 담수화 플랜트를 공동으로 개발하기 위해 고도 물기술(AWT)을 활용할 계획이다. 이 플랜트는 사우디 북동부 도시인 Al Khafji에 공급할 식수를 생산하게 될 것으로 보인다.

 

 

 

Only days after news emerged from Abu Dhabi that it plans to continue developing the world’s first full scale solar desalination plant, a new contract has been signed in Saudi Arabia.

 

Spanish company Abengoa will work with Advanced Water Technology (AWT) to jointly develop a 60,000 m3/day solar powered desalination plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

 

The plant will produce drinking water for Al Khafji City in North Eastern Saudi Arabia.

 

AWT is a newly formed water solutions company based in Riyadh, as the commercial arm of KACST (King Abdulaziz City Science and Technology) and is owned by Taqnia, a technology investment company.

 

In a statement, Abengoa said a pre-treatment phase will “reduce the high level of salinity and the oils and fats that are present in the region’s seawater”.

 

The Al Khafji 60,000 m3/day project will bring Abengoa’s total desalination capacity to nearly 1,500,000 m3/day.

 

Included in this is the 60,000 m3/day desalination project in Ghana, Africa, which local reports have suggested is now complete (see Desalinate newscast).

 

Earlier this week France’s SUEZ Environment further developed a contract signed in Abu Dhabi to develop a 100% solar powered desalination plant (see WWi story).

 

[출처 = Water World / 2015년 1월 21일]