SINGAPORE — The Sembcorp Changi NEWater Plant (SCNP), soon to be one of the world’s largest water recycling plants, has started its Stage 1 operations here, according to an August 26 press release from Black & Veatch, the US-based company that has done design engineering, construction support and commissioning services for the plant.
By the time the second stage of construction is finished next year, the SCNP will be producing 228,000 cubic meters per day (m3d), or 60.2 million gallons per day (gpd), of treated water, Black & Veatch said. In SCNP’s first stage, it is treating 69,000 m3d (18.2 million gpd).
The plant uses microfiltration, reverse osmosis and ultraviolet disinfection to treat water, which is recycled for use throughout Singapore. It is Singapore’s fifth and largest NEWater plant and when all are in full operation by 2010, they will together supply 30 percent of the nation’s needs. The NEWater project is an ambitious program of Singapore’s water utility, the Public Utilities Board (PUB), to recycle wastewater for reuse. Natural water resources in Singapore, a small city-state, are limited.
Singapore-based Sembcorp Industries, which is involved in utility and marine businesses worldwide, owns the plant and supplies its water to the PUB. Ralph Eberts, senior managing director of Black & Veatch’s Asia Pacific water business, says his company developed a strong working relationship with Sembcorp on the SCNP project and is now looking for opportunities for the companies to work together outside of Singapore.
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