Membrane Desal Plant Opens in Algeria

摘要

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president of Algeria, and Jeff Garwood, president and chief executive officer of GE Water & Process Technologies recently opened the $250 million Hamma Seawater Desalination Plant, which was constructed on a brownfield site just east of the port of Algiers. One of the largest seawater desalination plants in Africa, the Hamma plant was completed on time and within budget during a period of 24 months. It uses GE's advanced reverse osmosis (RO) membranes to purify up to 200,000 m~3/d of seawater, and it provides as many as 2 million residents of Algiers with a reliable and drought-proof supply of potable water.