Installation completed at the 14,000 m³/day desalination plant in Deir Al Balah

MACC has finished the installation works at the 14,000 m³/day seawater reverse-osmosis process plant of the Southern Gaza Desalination Plant expansion in Deir Al Balah, built for UNICEF with European Union funding.

MACC has completed the installation works at the RO 14,000 seawater desalination plant in Deir Al Balah, the second-phase expansion of the Southern Gaza Desalination Plant. The five reverse-osmosis trains, their pumps and energy-recovery devices, the filtration and post-treatment systems and the electrical and control works are now in place.

The expansion was designed and built by MACC for UNICEF with European Union funding and adds 14,000 m³/day to the plant, taking it to 20,000 m³/day for about 250,000 people in the Khan Younis and Rafah governorates. It is owned by the Palestinian Water Authority and operated by CMWU.

Each train is fed through a 5 µm cartridge filter by a 170 m³/h booster pump and a multi-stage high-pressure pump on variable-speed drives, with isobaric energy recovery and 145 m³/h recirculation pumps. Five new beach wells with 300 m³/h pumps supply the raw water, and four 300 m³/h vertical-turbine pumps deliver the product water.