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Miriam Balaban
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EuroMed 2010
Desalination for Clean Water and Energy
Cooperation among Mediterranean Countries
3-7 October 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel

Visits to Plants

6–7 October 2010

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There will be three visits at the conclusion of the conference

Wednesday October 6
    13:30–16:30 – Hadera Desalination Plant

Thursday October 7

      8:15–14:00 Palmachim Desalination Plant and Shafdan Wastewater  Treatment Plant.

      These can be visited together since they are not far from each other.

     14:00–16:30 Ashkelon Desalination Plant

Pre-registration is required with the following information:
     a. First and last name of visitor
     b. Name of Company
     c. Passport or ID number
     d. (optional) additional contact information, cell phone, address etc.

All visitors must wear closed shoes; visitors wearing sandals will not be admitted to the sites.

Photographs are not permitted.

IDE Technologies Ltd. welcomes the participants
of the EuroMed 2010 Conference to visit   

Hadera SWRO 127M m3/year plant

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In May 2010, IDE completed the Hadera plant, the world’s largest operating SWRO desalination facility, thereby confirming its clear leadership of the mega-sized desalination market.

The completion of the Hadera plant was a milestone event for the desalination industry. To date it is the world’s largest operating SWRO mega-size desalination plant. At the order of the Israeli government, the Hadera plant was expanded from 100M m3/y to 127M m3/y.

  

Cutting Edge Technologies Drive Down the Price of Water

IDE’s design for the Hadera plant utilizes proprietary 3-center (pumping center, membrane center and energy recovery center), cascade boron treatment and other technologies to decrease energy requirements and increase overall efficiency. These technologies have enabled Hadera to achieve one of the lowest-ever costs for high-quality desalinated water.

  

Leadership in Project Financing 

The Hadera project demonstrates IDE's leadership in the area of project financing. To fund the $425 million undertaking, IDE assembled a consortium of international financial institutions (including an EIB bank), the first time in Israel's history that such a large-scale project was financed by non-domestic banks. In recognition of this significant accomplishment, the project was awarded "Euromoney's Project Finance Deal of the Year” for 2007.

 

A Trusted Partner

The success of the Hadera joint venture, and IDE’s numerous other desalination joint ventures, demonstrates IDE’s reliability as a trusted source of technology, project management, engineering and construction know-how and financial capabilities.

 

 

                                

Palmachim Desalination Plant

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Shareholders: GES 72%, Tahal 28%

Daily production

  • Palmachim 1 – up to 110,000 m3/d    (Completed and commissioned May 2007)

  • Palmachim 2 – up to 40,000 m3/d      (Completed and commissioned April 2010)

  • Current total daily production – 150,000 m3/d

Project description
BOO – Build, Own, Operate for 25 years. Contract is with the Government of Israel.

Water quality requirements
Main features: 70 mg/h Cl–, 0.4/l boron

 Unique features:

  • Easy start-up and shut-down procedures (1–1.5 h for entire plant)

  • Production is continually adjusted according to electrical tariff

General description of the process

  1. Open sea intake

  2. Flocculation chambers

  3. Gravity multi-media filtration

  4. First pass includes 6 parallel skids comprised of:

    • Booster pump VFD driven

    • HPP

    • Energy recovery by Pelton wheel and ERI in parallel.

  1. Second pass includes 3 parallel skids to treat up to 75% of the plant production in order to reduce boron and chloride content.

  2. Post treatment is comprised of re-hardening reactors used to increase water hardness according to Israeli standards.

  3. Two product reservoirs – 10,000 m3 capacity each.


Shafdan Wastewater Treatment Plant

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The Dan Region Wastewater Treatment Plant (Shafdan) is an inter-regional system that collects, treats and reclaims municipal wastewater from high density urban areas and industrial zones of Central Israel. The plant has been operating since March 1996 and treats the region’s wastewater amounting to 120,000,000 m3 per year, so that it can be used for irrigated agriculture and is no longer discharged into the Mediterranean Sea.

The Shafdan treatment facility was constructed by Igudan Environmental Infrastructure and is operated by the Shafdan Unit of the Central District of Mekorot Water Company Ltd., which acts as a contract operator for the Association.

The facility treats all the industrial and domestic wastewater in the Dan Region and recycles it to a quality that can be used for agricultural irrigation for all types of crops in Israel, without limitation.

The treatment facility is unique in that the treated water undergoes an additional filtering process by percolation through the sandy topography of the coastal areas of Israel to be stored in groundwater aquifer. It is then pumped as required for irrigation thereby preventing problems of seasonal demand for irrigation water.

The treated wastewater is sent to the Negev and such that more than 60% of agriculture in the Negev is irrigated by Shafdan water. The people of the Dan Region of central Israel, totaling  2 million residents, benefit from Shafdan’s water purification and recycling services. 

Next to the National Water Carrier, the Shafdan treatment facility has become the largest water producer in Israel from a single source and is the most advanced system of its kind throughout the eastern Mediterranean Basin.

 

                                 




Ashkelon SWRO 118.7M m3/year plant

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2006 Global Water Award – Desalination Plant of the Year

“The world’s largest SWRO desalination facility that raises the ambition of the whole RO sector achieved one of the lowest prices for desalinated water in the world...the project's achievements may take many years to match (Global Water Intelligence Magazine, January 2006).

The completion of the Ashkelon plant was a milestone event for the desalination industry.

Situated on the Israeli Mediterranean coast, south of Tel Aviv, the world’s largest desalination plant by far at the time, the Ashkelon plant offered megaproduction capacity of up to 100 million m3/year (330,000 m3/d, the expansion to 118.7 came only in 2009) at a cost of $0.53 per cubic meter, a cost that undercut the optimistic forecasts of many industry analysts. As such, the successful completion of the plant opened new horizons for the international desalination industry – and established IDE as the clear leader of the industry’s mega-SWRO desalination space.

The technology innovations introduced in the Ashkelon plant include IDE’s proprietary 3-center design (pumping center, membrane center and energy recovery center), Triple line Intake and a unique boron removal system. The fully automated plant employs state-of-the-art means for saving energy. The plant is powered by an independent 80 MW combined cycle electric generation plant.

The plant has the capacity to meet around 15% of Israel's potable water requirements and brings fresh water to one of the country's driest corners. Israel's continued urban development and agricultural demand places immense stress on traditional water sources. Through diversifying the water sources, the Ashkelon plant goes some way to relieving the pressure on this scarce resource.