Construction and commissioning of 6 × 23,000 T/D MSF plant, Al Jobail phase 1

Abstract

This paper outlines the construction and operational experience with 6 × 23,000 tons per day multi-stage flash desalination plants which were installed at Al-Jobail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Module transporation and construction was adopted on this project to get the high quality of evaporator manufacture at shop and to shorten the construction period at site. During the reliability test f each evaporator unit, various types of antiscale chemicals were applied to compare the performance results. Extended operaton was also done to obtain long term performance results which might be applied as design criteria for other MSF evaporators.