Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization of Japan (NEDO) on the pilot project for the advanced seawater desalination system applying heated discharge water.
The MoU was signed by Kahramaa President Eng. Essa bin Hilal Al Kuwari and Akihiko Miyamoto NEDO President in the presence of H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry, and top officials from Qatari and Japanese side.
In this advanced seawater desalination technologies, discharged seawater used as cooling water for power planets, chemical plants, and other heavy industrial plants will be utilized from the intake of raw seawater desalination plants with advanced technologies developed by Japanese companies.
An environmentally-friendly bio-enhanced pretreatment will be applied. An advanced RO membrane is heat resistance to remain stable with high temperature seawater.
The project, implemented in Ras Laffan Industrial City, aims to achieve energy efficiency and protect the environment in that industrial city. The project capacity is 1500 m3/day of potable water.
