One of the biggest challenges in any water project isn’t just treating the water, but actually getting it from where it is to where it needs to be.
Today I share our workshop about microtunneling at intake & outfall approaches in desalination and effluent outfall in coastal waste water treatment plants.
Key worldwide projects with this technique:
Waste Water Treatment Plant Cambérène submarine outfall (Dakar, Senegal). 1,200 m long and a 2.6 m diameter under the Atlantic Ocean, which is not a friendly partner to deal with due to rough maritime conditions.
SWRO Amaala Sustainable Project in Red Sea (Saudi Arabia). Look at the reinforced concrete pipe storage!
Choutka Desalination Plant (Morocco), being the plant more than 30 m above the sea level, it is not much reasonable to destroy the shoreline to install the pipes in conventional method…
Sorek Desalination Plant (Israel), it is the case study analysed in our workshop. It registered the world record in performance of tunneling.
Atacama Desalination Plant (Chile), when you face Pacific Ocean and a complex rocky topography shoreline, much better to get independent from them….
This approach solves a major problem in the desalination sector:
The unpredictability of maritime works. Which is one of the most common sources of delays and penalties in desalination projects.
