Abengoa, Spain announced in a statement that it has started the commissioning, in consortium with the engineering and construction company SEPCOIII, of the 600,000 m3/day Jubail 3A desalination plant for the leading company in the development, investment, ownership and operation of power generation and desalinated water production plants, ACWA Power.
The Jubail 3A desalination plant is located south of the city of Jubail, in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia, in the northeastern.
The Jubail 3A desalination plant has already started pumping seawater to the pretreatment successfully as part of the tests at the start of commissioning. Once this phase has been passed, as well as all required contractual tests, the Jubail 3A desalination plant will enter commercial operation and produce drinking water for an equivalent population of 3,000,000 inhabitants
Jubail 3A will be the first and largest in the world to run on renewable energy generated by a solar photovoltaic plant. Thus, the plant will produce drinking water in a sustainable and efficient way, being the first experience worldwide on a commercial scale.
As regards Abengoa’s scope in the Jubail 3A desalination plant, the company has been responsible, in consortium with SEPCOIII, for the engineering, supply and construction of the plant. The project included seawater collection, pumping, pre-treatment, reverse osmosis system with energy recovery, post-treatment, pumping station, product water storage, effluent treatment, outfall discharge and photovoltaic solar field, as well as the associated electrical installations including the construction of a 380/33 kV electrical substation, statement mentioned.
