Temporary Desalination Solution for a Large Mining Facility's Water Demand in Saudi Arabia

A major mining facility in the eastern part of Saudi has multi-effect thermal desalination units to produce desalinated water for their process applications. Due to the reduced efficiency of their existing thermal units and increased water demand during preventive maintenance, the company approached us for a temporary desalination plant with a capacity of 9600 m3/day.
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A major mining facility in Eastern Saudi Arabia required a temporary desalination solution to address reduced efficiency of its existing thermal desalination units and meet increased process water demand. An initial capacity of 4,800 m³/day was deployed to provide desalinated water for process applications, ensuring uninterrupted mining operations.

Veolia deployed the assets within 2 months with complete scope of supply including storage tanks, chemicals dosing skids. Diesel Generators (DG) sets and all other electro mechanical accessories with full integration. 

The deployment included:

  • 6 Multimedia Filters (MMF): To effectively reduce suspended solids and provide a consistent SDI < 3 for the water feeding into the reverse osmosis system to ensure optimal performance.
  • 8 Seawater Reverse Osmosis units (SWRO): To produce pure water from the salt solution through a membrane into a higher concentrated saline solution.
  • 2 Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis units (BWRO): To remove dissolved salts and other impurities from brackish water, producing potable or industrial-grade water.
  • Required pump & Clean-in-Place (CIP) skids
  • 24/7 operational support