WATER SUPPLIERS PRODUCTS SUPPLIERS IN DOHA, QATAR

Water Suppliers Description: How does a country with no natural water sources but surrounded by water on three sides create a drinkable supply to sustain 2.64 million people? An arid country with limited to no underground water, rainfall of only 82mm/year ,and evaporation rate of 2000mm/year, Qatar falls below the international water poverty line of 1000m3 per capita per year. To remedy this, they turned to desalination - a process that involves the removal of salt and impurities from seawater to produce fresh water, often using a reverse osmosis process.The first sea water desalination plant in Qatar was established in the year 1953 based on submerged tube process with a capacity of 682m3 /day. The second plant was set up in the year 1962 at Ras abu Abood based upon the commercially successful multi stage flash distillation process (MSF) with a capacity of 1.5 MIGD. The third plant was established in 1977 at Ras Abu Fantas which was also based upon MSF. The fourth plant was built at Abu Samra in the year 1982 based on a new reverse osmosis technology with a capacity of 909 m3 per day (Figure 4). The fifth major desalination plant was set up in the year 2016 at Ras Abu Fantas based upon the reverse osmosis sea water desalination. The sixth and the latest plant is set up at Umm Al Houl with a capacity of 136MIGD, out if which 60MIGD is achieved using reverse osmosis process and the remaining 76MIGD is achieved by a hybrid MSF co power generation plant. All of these, with the exception of the plant at Ras ... Read More...

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