Tag: Saudi Arabia
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New technology and long-term reliability in process and potable water production
The Rabigh desalination plant in Saudi Arabia has outstripped its design output and water quality for nearly ten years. Designer of the plant s multiple effect distillation heart, Aquatech, sought at the outset to rein in operating costs while maintaining the plant s reliability and resilience. This article first appeared in the August 2014 issue…
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Middle East pump sales to top US$2 billion next year
The Middle East will spend nearly $2.2 billion for pumps next year according to market researcher the McIlvaine Company.
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Saudi takes delivery of giant desalination unit
Saudi Arabia has taken delivery of the second second of six units to be installed at the water desalination plant in Yanbu in the third phase of the plant’s expansion. The multi stage flash distillation unit weighed 3,836 tonnes and measured 135 m in length. It will produce 94,000 m³ of potable water a day.
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Dow signs Fluor to build new Saudi desalination component factory
The Dow Chemical Company has appointed Fluor Corporation to build a new factory to manufacture reverse osmosis components for desalination plants in Saudi Arabia.
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Doosan Heavy predicts more desalination wins as demand soars
Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction has predicted more desalination plant orders after the South Korean industrial giant won a U$1 billion order to build a desalination plant in Saudi Arabia – its single largest contract in nine months.
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GE and Saudi Aramco launch $200k technology competition
General Electric and Saudi Aramco have launched a $200,000 challenge to improve the energy efficiency of seawater desalination.
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Saudi plans two more giant desalination plants
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has unveiled plans to build two huge sea water desalination plants including a vast 1.5 million m³/day capacity hybrid plant with 30% of its production coming from reverse osmosis and the rest from thermal desalination.
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Saudi Arabia unveils plans for giant desalination plant
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation has announced plans for what would be the world’s largest desalination plant.
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Toyobo desalination membrane plant opened in Rabigh
The ACWA-Toyobo joint venture in Saudi Arabia, Arabian Japanese Membrane Company LLC (AJMC), opened its reverse-osmosis membrane production facility in Rabigh on 29 May 2014.
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Fluor to build Dow’s RO membrane factory in Saudi Arabia
Fluor Corporation has been awarded a contract by the Dow Chemical Company to build Dow’s reverse osmosis (RO) membrane manufacturing facility in Jubail Industrial City II in Saudi Arabia.