The plant is located in the Paraguana peninsula in the Falcon region in northwest Venezuela. The desalination project at Petroleos de Venezuela SA’s (PDVSA) Paraguana Refinery Complex is designed and built jointly by Acciona Agua and PDVSA. The Paraguana Refinery Complex will use about 30% of the production capacity, with the remainder supplying a population of 350,000.
Acciona Agua is designing the desalination plant with Energy Recovery’s energy efficient pressure recovery solution, employing 64 model PX-260 units. These devices will save the project an expected 52 mega-watts of energy per year.
Europe’s facility, the 240,000 m3/day Torrevieja plant in Spain and also the 100,000 m3/day Fouka project in Algeria, the 60,000 m3/day Tordera retrofit plant in Spain and the 16,000 m3/day Arucas II plant, also in Spain, are being built by Acciona Agua by using PX energy recovery devices. These desalination plants will deliver fresh water for the municipal, industrial and agricultural applications.
Borja Blanco, Energy Recovery vice president and general manager of the Mega Projects Division said, “We consider Acciona Agua to be a premier partner in delivering energy efficient solutions in desalination. They have relied on PX technology for many of their first-of-a-kind projects all over the world.”
