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 transportation 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 of each evaporator unit, various types of anti-scale chemicals were applied to compare the performance results. Extended operation was also done to obtain long term performance results which might be applied as design criteria for other MSF evaporators.