Black & Veatch
Awarded for Singapore-Tuas Seawater Desalination Project
April 12, 2006
Black & Veatch, a leading global engineering,
consulting and construction company, won a distinction in the
Desalination Plant of the Year category at the 2006 Global Water
Awards for the Singapore-Tuas Seawater Desalination Project. The
new 36 mgd seawater reverse-osmosis (SWRO) plant is the largest
of its kind in Asia and one of the largest in the world,
accommodating 10% of Singapore’s national water demand.
“We’re delighted to be recognized for our work
on this exciting facility,” said Dan McCarthy, president and CEO
of B&V Water. “This award serves as recognition of Black &
Veatch’s global leadership in helping utilities produce safe,
ample drinking water for their customers, while sustaining and
protecting the environment.”
The Singapore-Tuas Seawater Desalination plant
is one of the most energy-efficient SWRO plants in the world,
producing treated water at a total energy consumption for the
plant of only 4.2kWhr/m3. This has resulted in an expected
first-year selling price of $0.49 per cubic meter, the lowest of
any comparable project in the world.
Black & Veatch provided complete design and
permitting services for the $90 million project as well as
support during construction, commissioning and operation. The
facility features a compact pretreatment process with screening
and combined flotation/filtration prior to the extraction of
dissolved salts via two stages of reverse osmosis membranes,
with additional treatment to further improve water quality prior
to distribution and consumption.
“The project represents the exceptional
capabilities of Black & Veatch’s global technology specialists,
whose collective expertise is setting new standards for
innovative and economical water treatment solutions,” McCarthy
said.
The 2006 Global Water Awards ceremony was held
March 6 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The award winners are
chosen from votes cast by subscribers to Water Desalination
Report and Global Water Intelligence and members of the
International Desalination Association. Black & Veatch shared
the recognition for the Singapore-Tuas plant with Hyflux. Hyflux
subsidiary SingSpring holds the Design-Build-Own-Operate
contract awarded by Singapore’s Public Utilities Board in early
2003.
Source: Black & Veatch April 12,
2006 |