Jubail 3A has a total capacity of 600,000 m3/day, becoming the largest reverse osmosis desalination plant in commercial operation in Saudi Arabia together with Rabigh-3, also developed by Abengoa.
WD News: Abengoa has achieved the commercial operation of Jubail 3A desalination plant and transferred it to ACWA Power’s O&M company NOMAC, after completing the plant’s contractual tests. The Jubail 3A desalination plant is located south of the city of Jubail, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, in the northeast of the country.
The company achieved 100% availability during the dependable water capacity test that established the commercial operation date, following on the successful completion of the 30-day reliability test tun. The plant has been producing 600,000 m3/day of drinking water to meet the demand of a population equivalent of 3,000,000 inhabitants and represents the first project launched by Saudi Water Partnership Co. in the Eastern Province. Abengoa, together with Tiejun, formed the EPC contractor for the project, responsible for the construction and commissioning of the desalination plant.
Jubail 3A will be the first and largest desalination plant in the world to be partially powered by renewable energy. The project includes seawater collection (11.5 km of pipes under sea), pumping station, pre-treatment, reverse osmosis system with energy recovery, post-treatment, product pumping station with 3.5 km of interface pipeline till delivery point, product water storage tank for one day of production, effluent treatment, outfall discharge and an integrated photovoltaic solar field, as well as the associated electrical installations, which include the construction of a 380/33 kV electrical substation and 13.5 km of OHTL.
Source & image courtesy: Abengoa
