El-Alamein Seawater R.O Desalination Plant, Egypt

The project aims to construct El-Alamien Seawater Desalination Plant with a capacity of 150,000 m3/ day and increasing it up to 300,000 m3/day only for the pipeline intake, outfall water, intake chamber, embankment and pipeline interconnection. 

The project entails: supply, installation, commissioning, start-up, and testing as a turnkey project, operation & maintenance for one year, design for the non-process buildings, and design review for the entire buildings.

The project includes the following:
Seawater intake (2 submarine pipes 1600 mm, intake towers, intake chamber)
Seawater pumping station (12 horizontal centrifugal pumps with capacity 1485 m3/h @ 60m)
Chemical pre-treatment reagents 
Multimedia filtration (18 horizontal multimedia filters installed under steel shed)
Microfiltration (8 horizontal cartridge filters) 
RO building with generation and electrical building 
1st pass R.O. rack (10)
High pressure pumping (10 horizontal centrifugal pumps with capacity 643 m3/h @ 700m)
High pressure booster pumping (10 horizontal centrifugal pumps, axial suction with capacity 773 m3/h @ 45m
Energy recovery (120 duty exchangers)
2nd pass RO racks (3)
2nd RO pass pumping (3 horizontal centrifugal pumps with capacity 784 m3/h @ 145 m)
Chemical cleaning & flushing system 
Permeated water storage (capacity each 1000 m3)
Remineralisation tanks (32mx15mx12m concrete tanks)
CaCO3 storage tanks 
4 product water storages (15000 m3)
Product water pumping station (7 horizontal centrifugal pumps with capacity 1042 m3/h @ 60m, pipe works with all accessories, electrical building, maintenance crane)
Product water chemical treatment (PH adjusting + chlorination)
Brine outfall (15mx15mx6m concrete tank)
Brine backwash tank (22mx12mx6m concrete tank)

Project Info

Business lines

Water and Wastewater

Fund

Governmental

Location

North Coast

Country

Egypt

Start Date

2016

End Date

2019

Value

EUR 114 Million

Client

Aqualia Infrastructures