The new Kenya Water Treatment Plant, which will be designed and constructed by Laing O’Rourke, will desalinate water produced during the extraction of gas from the coal seams by using GE’s advanced membrane and thermal water treatment technologies.
The plant will have the capacity to produce up to 72 million litres of treated water per day for reuse in a variety of applications, such as irrigation for farmers and process water for industrial customers.
The Kenya Water Treatment Plant, which is expected to begin commercial operation in the final quarter of 2011, will feature its own power generation plant that will be powered by coal seam methane.
GE Power & Water president and CEO of water and process technologies Heiner Markhoff said that advanced treatment processes will enable the Kenya Water Treatment Plant to convert coal seam gas water to a quality suitable for beneficial reuse.
"This supports both QGC’s objectives and the Australian government’s water management policy for this growth industry," Markhoff said.
