Thanks to excellent collaboration between UNIHA and its local partners, UNIHA’s 12,000 m³/day desalination plant on the Egyptian coast of Marsa Matrouh got commissioned. As travel has been restricted due to Covid-19, the procedure was undertaken remotely with UNIHA’s assistance from more than 2,000 kilometers away. The flexibility of both UNIHA and its local partners allowed for a smooth taking over of the 13,200,000 € turnkey project executed in consortium with local company ORASCOM for civil works.
The plant was opened in a cheerful opening ceremony with presence of high-ranking government officials, after which UNIHA received the official taking-over certificate.
Traditionally, water has been supplied to the Governorate of Marsa Matrouh by low-yield wells, rain water collection, seawater desalination, and Nile water delivered by train, truck, and pipeline. For many years there had been interest in expanding the existing seawater desalination facility to provide a reliable supply of water for this area.
As part of this program, UNIHA was commissioned to install a turn-key seawater desalination plant. The raw water is taken from an open seawater intake.
The plant consists of the following components:
- Raw water storage tank
- Feed water pumps
- Media-filtration plant
- Chemical dosing station to feed SBS and antiscalant
- Cartridge filter with filtration degree of 5µm
- High pressure pump coup-led with energy recovery turbine
- RO skids
- Treated water storage tank and the related pumps
The Plant is completed with measuring and control instruments for fully automatic operation incl. control panels, PLC, power distributor and all related cabling.
The main accessory of the plant is washing and flushing station for automatic flushing after each shut-down and manual washing with the necessary chemical circulating pump, cartridge filter and the related piping.
