Cape Preston Desalination Plant
The First Pre-Assembled Large-Scale Desalination Plant
The Cape Preston desalination plant is the world’s first large-scale desalination plant that was pre-assembled elsewhere due to the remoteness of the location.
It provides high quality clean water to CITIC Pacific Mining’s Sino Iron project, overcoming a number of extraordinarily difficult environmental challenges.
„Cape Preston, Australia – The first pre-assembled large scale plant in the world“
Capacity: 140,000 m3/day
Technology: Reverse Osmosis (RO)
Project Type: Engineering-Procurement-Construction and Support Services (EPC&S)
Location: Cape Preston, WA, Australia
Footprint: 54,000 m2 (300m x 180m)
Commission Date: 2013
The first large
scale pre-engineered modular plant – the entire plant was fabricated in 60 pre-assembled modules and tested in the production facility before being shipped to the site
Carefully designed ‘plug & play’ solution
overcame difficult seawater conditions including very high levels of Total Suspended Solids (TSS), high levels of organics, and large numbers of jellyfish, as well as significant daily tidal variations and conflicting currents that reverse seawater temperature and characteristics every six months
Compliance with strict Australian environmental standards
the Sino Iron desalination plant is designed to be one of the most electrically and chemically efficient plants in Australia
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