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Building an Absorption Base Desalination Plant محطة تحلية المياه المالحة بتقنية الامتصاص In 2017 work on the Absorption Base Desalination Plant commenced to utilize new desalination system technologies related to design, analysis, testing and evaluation. The Plant also seeks to develop these technologies locally with the cooperation of international partners. The King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology has provided technical support to the Saline Water Conversion Corporation during the construction of a multi-hybridization and crystallization desalination plant, by implementing a cooling and salt crystallization system and connecting them to a renewable energy source in the main desalination plant in Rabigh city.

About
The plant is considered one of the first desalination plants based on absorption cooling with salt crystal, of industrial size, to achieve the principle of non-return of salt to prevent negative impact on the environment and raise the general efficiency of the plant. The plant consumes the equivalent of 3.5 megawatts of thermal energy and 1.5 megawatts of electric power to produce 5000 meters 1 cubic meter of desalinated water and 700 kilograms of salt per day (from 7 cubic meters of brine only)

Strategic goals

 * Transfer and localize emerging water desalination technologies in cooperation with international partners, national entities and local universities, and engage national talents to develop local capabilities.
 * Test the zero liquid disposal process from a scientific, economic, technical and practical perspective.
 * Demonstrate the scientific competence of the plant on a small industrial scale.
 * Benefiting from renewable energy capabilities and building them from the experience gained during the operation of water and thermal desalination.

Subprojects

 * Experimental station in the solar village of Al-Uyaynah.
 * Small commercial industrial plant in Rabigh city.

facts

 * 5000 cubic meters per day of local water for the city of Rabigh.
 * 700 kg per day of crystallized salt.
 * 3.7 tons per year carbon emissions reduction (11 tons per year if 100% renewable energy)