The Facility Sabine Pass, a large LNG terminal in the United States, required a membrane desalination solution to cater to its extensive process water needs in order to produce a large amount of liquefied natural gas for export. The water is used for injection for compressor turbines for methane, propane and ethylene, wash water for…
The Facility Occidental Petroleum Corporation’s (OXY) Enhanced Oil Recovery Field is located in the south-central area of the Sultanate of Oman, approximately 660 kilometers from Muscat and 560 kilometers from Salalah. This oilfield was producing approximately 10,000 barrels of oil per day. A project was estalished to increase production to 150,000 barrels per day, to…
The Facility Egyptian Ethylene and Derivatives Company (ETHYDCO) is an Egyptian joint venture company has been established with the purpose to produce Ethylene, Butadiene and their derivatives (Polyethylene, Poly-Butadiene). The company started to build a 460,000 T/Y ethylene plant and a 20,000 T/Y butadiene extraction plant as part of ETHYDCO’s petrochemical complex in Alexandria. ETHYDCO…
Project Background The customer is a renowned pharmaceutical company based in Pune, India, that is one of the world’s largest producers of vaccines. The customer initiated an expansion of its manufacturing facility that resulted in an additional water requirement for the plant’s needs. A key challenge for this project was that the BOD of the…
Project Background The customer is a renowned pharmaceutical company based in India, founded with the aim of manufacturing lifesaving immune-biologicals. They installed a water treatment system to recycle pharmaceutical process wastewater for reuse. Ultrafiltration was chosen as pretreatment to a reverse osmosis system, and the feed water was tertiary treated pharmaceutical effluent. Soon after operation…
Project Overview The customer is one of the largest single-mill-setups in Asia producing spun fiber-dyed yarns, and is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certified by the Bureau of Indian Standards. An existing effluent treatment plant was not meeting the customer’s requirements for the recycle and reuse of textile effluent water for process purposes. Concerns With Previous…
Project Background The customer is a global group of companies that provides an extensive array of scientific instruments. Being a pharmaceutical application, the customer required consistently high purity, pharmaceutical grade water. The existing system established to produce this water quality consisted of a softener, reverse osmosis system and electrodeionization (EDI). The customer required an EDI…
Project Background Petrogas LLP, one of the world’s largest oil rehabilitation companies, required demineralized water for a new boiler component to its Turkmenistan refinery. Petrogas chose to install a single-pass reverse osmosis system in advance of the demineralization process. For demineralization, Petrogas carefully evaluated their options to determine which one would provide the most reliable…
Project Background Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) is the owner of South Coast Steam Power Plant located at Guayanilla in the island of Puerto Rico, about 150 KM south of San Juan. This power station is one of PREPA’s oldest units and uses an oil red boiler as part of its generation process. The…
Project Background A natural gas-fired combined cycle power generation facility located in Idaho contacted QUA to find a solution to improve the performance of a water treatment system used to recycle the plant’s cooling tower blow down water. This water treatment system is an essential aspect of the facility’s 270 MW power generation process. During construction,…
