KWT international selected for STP project in Saudi Arabia
KWT International, the leading penstock supplier from The Netherlands, have been selected as supplier of all stainless steel penstocks for the Hafr Al-Bathn water treatment plant expansion (phase 1) in Saudi Arabia.
Hafr Al-Bathn is a Saudi Arabian city in the Eastern Province and located in the Northeastern region, some 480 km to the north of Riyadh.
Phase 1, as part of a series of 3, of the water treatment plant has started and soon all water management systems, among them the penstocks, will be implemented.
The Ministry of Water and Electricity has commissioned Saudi Designers Consultants and Engineers to design a water treatment plant to produce drinking water from wells for Hafr Al-Bathn City with a capacity of 20,000 m3/day. The peak flow per phase has been fixed on 413 m3/sec (1487 m3/h).
The construction will be done by Saudi Al-Terais Trading, Industrial Contractors Ltd. The total value of the entire expansion contract will be 34.8 Million Saudi Riyal.
KWT International, through their national representative, Soroof Aqua Solutions from Khobar, has been selected as supplier for all 12 penstocks. KWT chose to submit its successful 2008 design, the “KSA-MD-RVS” with non-rising stem, engineered to withstand a challenging 20 mwc (2.0 bar) of operating water pressure.
The installation supervision will be performed by SAS as part of their full scope of supply.
KWT is proud to be a partner of SAS in this project which is a first success after KWT Group was approved by the Ministry of Water and Electricity in the course of 2009.