Perth’s new Saltwater Desalination Project has won an award!
It has been declared Australia’s most outstanding example of construction excellence at the 2008 Australian Construction Achievement Awards
A 144 ML per day seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant – the third largest in the world was built in an 18-month period and on a footprint of only 6.3 hectares and included the installation of intake and outfall pipelines and an intake receiving structure within the protected waters of Cockburn Sound.
The judges said that the processes for this plant were far more complex than for any conventional water treatment plant, partly because of issues relative to the corrosive nature of seawater, and also in producing a pristine quality of seawater to feed the reverse osmosis system. This was a was a large, complex, fast-tracked project.
The Judges stated that “The project achieved full environmental compliance while incorporating sustainability through design and equipment and is now exceeding the client’s performance requirements”. “It also demonstrates the viability both economically and environmentally of desalinisation.”
The key environmental challenges such as consultation, approvals and regulations, concentrate management and marine monitoring, energy and aesthetics were paramount during construction and will continue throughout the life of the plant.
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July 8th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Congratulations to the project. Are pressure exchangers the systems used in the desalination process?
July 8th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I can’t tell you the technical details. Why not Google the plant itself and ask them. Let us all know
Jean
November 28th, 2008 at 5:11 am
You really need to read between the lines and not just repeat Water Corps propaganda. What relationship do you have with this mob? The Kwinana desal plant was shut down all to often during low wind periods as we predicted because it caused low oxygen levels in Cockburn Sound – what effect is this Desal plant having on the sound and its marine life? – if you listen to experienced locals rather than the Government and Industry propaganda machine it is having a huge impact. It is just blatantly ridiculous discharging super saline brine into Cockburn Sound.
All because Water Corp and the Government are too tight to spend the required amount pumping the brine out to sea.
PS… the desal plant uses Reverse Osmosis technology.