- □ Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (Chairman & CEO, Geewon Park) announced that it shipped a major equipment for the Escondida seawater desalination plant in Chile, the company’s first water project in Latin America, through its in-house pier at the Changwon manufacturing plant on January 31.
- □ The shipped equipment is a Dual Media Filter, a seawater pretreatment system used for Reverse Osmosis (RO) seawater desalination plants. The facilities for the Escondida seawater desalination plant are currently being manufactured by Doosan’s Changwon manufacturing plant along with Doosan Vina, the company’s manufacturing affiliate based in Vietnam.
- □ In September 2013, Doosan signed a US$103 million contract with BHP Billiton, a global mining company and also the owner of the Escondida Mine, to supply a seawater desalination plant to the Escondida Mine, the world’s largest copper mine.
- □ The Escondida seawater desalination plant is the largest RO project in the Latin American region. The plant will produce 220,000 tons of industrial service water daily, which is enough for 550,000 people to consume simultaneously. Doosan will provide engineering and procurement services and supervise the commissioning. Industrial service water production is scheduled to start in the middle of 2016.
* Reverse Osmosis (RO) This technology uses the principle of reverse osmosis and artificially applies pressure on seawater to pass through a membrane to remove salinity. * Dual Media Filter (DMF) A system that removes solid particles in the source water by passing the water through a filter bed, primarily comprised of sand.
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Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Successfully Ships Equipment for its first Seawater Desalination Project in Latin America
2015. 02. 02게시글 내용
- Company ships major equipment for Escondida, its first water project in the Latin American market
- 15m x 5m-sized 56-ton heavy equipment shipped through in-house pier in Changwon
