Yokogawa to supply control systems for world-scale seawater desalination plant in Saudi Arabia

Yokogawa to supply control systems for world-scale seawater desalination plant in Saudi Arabia

Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announces that its subsidiary, Yokogawa Saudi Arabia, has received an order from the Saline Water Conversion Corporation to supply control systems and other solutions for the One Million Project, which will introduce seawater reverse osmosis (RO) technology at the Al Jubail desalination plant, a world-scale facility with a water production capacity of 1 million m3 per day. The construction contractor for this project is a consortium between Saudi Services for Electro Mechanic Works Company and Metito Saudi Arabia.

The Al Jubail plant is located in Jubail, a city on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia. This project will replace the existing multi-stage flash distillation (MSF) facilities with RO facilities. Extending the life of the existing plant is seen to be a more environmentally friendly approach than constructing an all-new plant. In the Middle East, the use of fossil fuel-intensive desalination processes was once the mainstream. However, with the advances in membrane filtration techniques that have been achieved in recent years, more and more plants are now turning to the use of the RO technology, which emits less CO2 and produces water using less energy. This project is part of Saudi Arabia’s Net Zero Vision 2060