Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, has selected Veolia, through its desalination specialist SIDEM, as an industry partner to collaborate on its ambitious Renewable Energy Water Desalination Program launched in early 2013.
The Renewable Energy Water Desalination Program is a pilot program to test and develop advanced energy efficient seawater desalination technologies suitable to be powered by renewable energy sources. The long-term goal of the program is to implement renewable energy-powered desalination plants in the United Arab Emirates.
As technology partners, Veolia and MASDAR will share the costs to build and operate a pilot plant - the first step of the partnership - that will have the same characteristics as future large scale innovative and low energy consumption desalination plants.
The 15-month operation period will be split into a performance proving period and an optimization period during which higher performances will be reached for the benefit of future large scale plant improvement. The water produced by the pilot will be distributed via Abu Dhabi's drinking water network.
Built in the Ghantoot area, the pilot will be capable of handling very harsh sea water conditions (salinity up to 52 g/l, temperature up to 42°C and harmful algal blooms) using technologies developed by Veolia, such as high performance sea water pre-treatment combining air floatation and filtration and a new osmosis membranes feed configuration allowing high treatment fluxes. Pairing state-of-the-art energy efficient desalination technologies with renewable energy should allow power recovery up to 98%.
The partnership will also extend to future large desalination projects in the Gulf countries.
Xavier Joseph, CEO, Veolia Gulf Countries said that through co-innovation, and by working closely with MASDAR, Veolia was aiming to develop the next generation of sustainable desalination technologies.
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