Masdar City in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates has officially inaugurated a seawater desalination pilot plant able to be powered by renewable energy built and operated by SUEZ.
The project, based in Ghantoot, 90 kilometres northwest of Abu Dhabi, covers the design, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operation, maintenance and evaluation of the pilot plant, over a period of 18 months.
The pilot plant’s inauguration is initiating the operational phase. SUEZ has successfully passed the water production and water quality tests, in terms of performance and compliance with Masdar’s requirements.
SUEZ’s plant reaches the potable water production of 100m3 per day with an electrical energy consumption of less than 3.6 kWh/m3, thus offering more energy-efficiency than the current state-of-the-art desalination systems.
SUEZ, has brought together some of its most advanced and innovative technological desalination partners to achieve the sustainability objectives: Dow Water and Process Solutions with its advanced and innovative Ultrafiltration and Reverse Osmosis membrane technologies, and ADIONICS® with its innovative liquid/liquid deionisation technology.
In parallel, together with the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology and ENGIE’s technical competence centre Laborelec, SUEZ is conducting studies on seawater desalination using solar power, in order to develop seawater desalination plants fully powered by renewable energy.
The projects are aimed at developing and demonstrating advanced and innovative technologies in desalination to both ensure water security and reduce energy consumption in order to meet the United Arab Emirates’ energy reduction targets. The main final target is to apply renewable energy technologies on large scale desalination plant.
Jean-Louis Chaussade, Chief Executive Officer of SUEZ commented:
“SUEZ is proud to play an active role in the Masdar Seawater Desalination Programme and to contribute to Masdar's ambitious initiatives for renewable energy. Within this project, SUEZ‘s objective is to identify new desalination technologies that will address sustainable access to water, both in the arid region and throughout the world. By doing so, SUEZ demonstrates its commitment to identify and develop global solutions for the sustainable management of resources, a key issue, especially in the region.”
SUEZ is currently the reverse osmosis desalination world leader with over 250 plants built to date. The French-headquartered company, which produces 5,138 GWh of local and renewable energy and has 80,990 employees across all five continents, generated total revenues of €14.3 billion in 2014.
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