The Albufeira plant will be the first in mainland Portugal, but the first desalination plant was in Porto Santo, Madeira, opened in 1980 and managed by Águas e Residuos da Madeira (ARM). It is the only source of drinking water used for the public supply of the island, which is produced from sea water through reverse osmosis desalination units.
The project is supported by a AED100 million ($27.2 million) research and development fund launched in 2022 by ADQ.
Work on the city’s third desalination plant at Nemmeli has been accelerated, with construction of the remaining 200 metres of the pipeline that will be used to draw seawater, expected to be completed by this month end.
Named the ‚Dampier Seawater Desalination Plant‘, this desalination plant will be located at Parker Point, where Rio Tinto processes its iron ore port operations. The plant will have an initial treatment capacity of four gigalitres per year with the potential to increase its treatment capacity to eight gigalitres.
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The plant will be capable of producing potable water from saline source water derived from seawater wells, and it has guaranteed to deliver 1.7M gal/day of potable water to BWS‘ water system on a 24/7 basis.
According to Orano Mining’s managing director Tommie Gouws, EDP has the capacity to produce 20 million cubic metres of water per year, with the existing infra- structure allowing for expansion up to 25 million cubic metres and the potential to further expand to 45 million cubic metres.
The plants to desalinate 1.2 million gallon of seawater per day would be functional by the end of the current month, said an official of Gwadar Development Authority.
The mega project will comprise a greenfield seawater nanofiltration plant with a treatment capacity of more than 110 million imperial gallons per day (500,000 m3/day) in addition to seawater intake and outfall facilities, pumping stations, and a water transmission pipeline of approximately 75km.
The company submitted a Base Proposal of 120 Million Gallons per Day (MIGD) $0.365 per cubic meter for the Alternative Proposal of 180 MIGD for the plant.
For this reason, Shuqaiq 3 SWRO was awarded a prize in the Desalination Plant of the Year category. Construction work on the plant was completed in January 2023 in record time despite COVID-19 problems. It is one of the biggest seawater desalination plants using reverse osmosis technology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, capable of supplying 2 million people in the Asir and Jizan areas. The plant, which is already producing water at full capacity, produces 450,000 cubic metres of potable water per day, making it a milestone in sustainable and innovative desalination.