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News Release from: GE Water & Process Technologies
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Team on 01 June 2007
Water services for Jafza zone at Jebel
Ali
Palm Water has announced the selection of GE Water and Process Technologies as the preferred provider of water and wastewater technology for the USD550M Palm Water-Jebel Ali Free Zone, (Jafza)
Palm Water has announced the selection of GE Water and Process Technologies, a unit of the General Electric Company as the preferred provider of water and wastewater technology, long-term operations and maintenance for the USD550 Million (Dh 2 Billions) Palm Water-Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) Utility Project GE will supply the soon-to-be-named engineering, procurement and construction contractor (EPC) on the project with the design, engineering, and advanced water and wastewater technologies to bring a reliable water source and sound wastewater management solution to Jafza
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 19 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We look forward to working with Palm Water on this and other regional projects," said Jeff Garwood, President and CEO, GE Water and Process Technologies: "GE water solutions will increase the water availability in Jafza with an unmatched solution for the supply of potable water, high-quality industrial water, and wastewater technologies".
GE will supply water treatment technologies that include seawater desalination by reverse osmosis (SWRO), ZeeWeed membrane bioreactor (MBR) and polishing treatment for the three major Jafza facilities - a seawater desalination plant with a capacity of 100,000 cubic meters per day; a centralised wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of 108,000 cubic meters per day; a water polishing plant with a capacity of 81,000 cubic meters per day and an industrial wastewater plant with a capacity of 4,000 cubic meters per day.
"We are pleased to announce the GE participation in this project," said Keith Levers, COO of Palm Utilities: "GE brings an innovative set of water treatment solutions to help Jafza meet its water utility needs.
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We look forward to working with GE to help the development of Jafza, providing the essential water, industrial water and wastewater needs".
The Palm Water Desalination Facility will utilise GE SWRO technology to convert salty seawater into 100,000 cubic meters per day of a safe, reliable, supply of potable water for the zone.
The wastewater treatment plant will use GE ZeeWeed MBR to treat 108,000 cubic meters of wastewater - turning it into high-quality, safe water to be used for irrigation and partly polished for district cooling purposes.
All four facilities will use GE technology to serve development plans in Jafza North, Jafza South, Techno Park and Down Town Jebel Ali.
Both the wastewater treatment and seawater desalination plants will be built in phases to match the Jafza expansion and development plans.
The first phase of the project wastewater facility is expected to be commissioned during third quarter of 2009 and reach full capacity by 2012.
The first phase of seawater desalination facility is scheduled to be commissioned in late 2009 and be fully operational by 2012.
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