WATER & WASTEWATER
Veolia Water wins
Petrobras water treatment contract in Brazil U nder a joint venture with Brazilian water treatment engineering company Enfil, Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies will supply and construct a water treatment and reuse station at Abreu e Lima refinery, in Ipojuca, Brazil for the Brazilian oil company Petrobras.
The Abreu e Lima refinery water treatment and reuse station will be able to provide 2100 m 3 of filtered water per hour and 580 m 3 of recycling water per hour for industrial use. The water treatment plant will also reuse approximately one third of the water consumed by the refinery. It will include a series of five units providing increasingly advanced treatments, in order to produce boiler feed and demineralized water, as well as a dewatering sludge unit.
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies' processes will include flocculation and counter-current lamella settling with Multiflo, multi media filters and granular activated carbon, electro dialysis reversal and ion exchange resin system.
Commissioning is expected to start in 2011. The contract is worth 119 million to Veolia Water.