LARGE SEA-WATER DESALINATION PROJECTS A TIMELY SOLUTION TO ISRAEL'S PRESSING WATER NEEDS Program and Presented Papers

Israel Desalination Society (R.A.)

Water Research Institute Center for Water Science & Technology

LARGE SEA-WATER DESALINATION PROJECTS

A TIMELY SOLUTION TO ISRAEL'S

PRESSING WATER NEEDS

Program and Presented Papers

December 7,

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ISRAEL DESALINATION SOCIETY

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LARGE SEA-WATER DESALINATION PROJECTS

A TIMELY SOLUTION TO ISRAEL’S PRESSING WATER NEEDS

Program and papers

December 7, 1999

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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

The background to the conference on LARGE SEA-WATER DESALINATIONPROJECTS is the Israel Government resolution 4895 of March 7, 1999 relating to sea-water desalination. The resolution instructs the Minister of National Infrastructures, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of the Interior to advance the planning of integration of sea-water desalination plants into the Israel Water Supply system and to prepare bid specifications for establishing a sea-water desalination plant of 50 MCM a year, built, owned and operated by private investment. This resolution has accelerated interest of world leading desalination developers in making preparations for concrete proposals.

The Israel Desalination Society (IDS), whose charter calls for “the development and promotion of the appropriate use of desalination and desalination technologies for the water supply needs of the State of Israel”, welcomed the Government decision, as evidenced by the subtitle of the conference: A TIMELY SOLUTION TO ISRAEL’S PRESSING WATER NEEDS. The IDS Council felt that it was its natural duty to assist serious desalination developers by offering them an appropriate forum for gathering information, presenting their capabilities and experience, and airing their concept of a large scale sea water desalination project they would be envisaging.

Hopefully, the contemplated first large scale desalination project of 50 MCM a year will be a pioneering endeavor of a series of similar and larger desalination plants. These are essential for solving the acute national and regional water shortage and water quality problems that are anticipated in the early years of the next decade. The 50 MCM a year project will undoubtedly serve as an essential learning tool for Israeli planners, on ways for organizing and carrying out large scale fresh water supply from desalination sources.

With these considerations in mind, the conference program aimed at the following objectives: to advance public awareness of the urgent need of desalination in Israel

to illustrate the availability of reliable and affordable desalination technologies

to emphasize oncoming desalination business opportunities in Israel, reflected in the March 1999 resolution of the Israeli Government

The conference organizers are grateful to the world leading desalination developers who have readily agreed to participate and share their experience in the presence of their competitors. The response of organizations and companies for financial support towards the IDS conference budget has also been gratifying, as acknowledged elsewhere in this booklet.

Thanks are due to Mr. Meir Ben-Meir, Water Commissioner, for agreeing to present a tone-setting opening lecture. We are also indebted to Mr. Ben-Meir for allowing Adan Technologies to present a paper based on the proposed tender documents for the 50 MCM a year sea-water desalination project, which Adan prepared under the guidance of the Water Commission.

We are looking forward both to the presentations and the discussions. It is our hope that the technical and economic data disclosed from eminent desalination developers, who have impressive records in construction and operation of large water projects, will facilitate and accelerate the Government decision process towards soliciting bids for a 50 MCM a year desalination project. The closing session of the conference, chaired by Professor Raphael Semiat, will aim to summarize the conference and hopefully, to adopt a resolution addressed to the Government and the public at large.

The presentations and discussions at the conference will be taped so as to enable publication, in due course, of a final Proceedings Book. The list of people who have helped organize this conference is too long to enumerate. Special mention should, however, be made of the untiring work and efforts of Iris Sutzkover, a research student at the Rabin Desalination Laboratory and of Miriam Amsalem, secretary at Technion’s Chemical Engineering Department. Thanks are also due to the dedicated efforts of Anat Shauli, researcher, and Marina Rumyantsev, research student, of the Rabin Desalination Laboratory and of Norma Jacobs, Secretary at the Chemical Engineering Department.

David Hasson Conference Chairman

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The conference was generously supported by the following

organizations; their financial contributions are

gratefully acknowledged:

BEN GURION UNIVERSITY - INSTITUTES FOR APPLIED RESEARCH

DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY – FILMTEC

MEMBRANES

HYDRANAUTICS

IDE TECHNOLOGIES

IONICS INCORPORATED

ISRAEL DISCOUNT BANK

JACOBSON AGENCIES

KEMIRA KEMWATER

MEKOROT - ISRAEL NATIONAL WATER CO.

TAHAL CONSULTING ENGINEERS

TAMBOUR ECOLOGY

TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE – TECHNION IIT

THE ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION

THE WATER COMMISSION - MINISTRY OF NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES

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Conference organizing committee:

David Hasson (Chairman), WRI Rabin Desalination Laboratory

Amitzur Barak, Israel Water Commission

Nathan Berkman, Adan Technical & Economic Services

Miriam Brusilowski, Jacobson Agencies

Raphael Semiat, WRI Rabin Desalination Laboratory

Council Members of the ISRAEL DESALINATION SOCIETY:

Uri Arbel (Tahal Consulting Engineers) Ram Aviram (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Amitzur Barak (Water Commission)

Nathan Berkman (Adan Technical Services) Uri Fisher (Ormat)

Jack Gilron (Center for Water Science & Technology, B.G.U.)

Pinhas Glueckstern (Mekorot Desalting Division)

David Hasson (Rabin Desalination Lab. WRI, Technion, Council Coordinator) Daniel Hoffman (Adan Technical Services)

Shmuel Kantor (IDS president, Senior Advisor)

Yehuda Kantor (Revivim Water & Environment)

Ora Kedem (Center for Water Science & Technology, B.G.U.)

Yaacov Mansdorf (Tambour Ecology)

Moti Perry (Nitron)

Menahem Priel (Mekorot Desalting Division)

Raphael Semiat (Rabin Desalination Lab. WRI, Technion)

Shimon Tal (Mekorot Water Co.)

Josef Weinberg (Israel Desalination Engineering)

Organizational work and editing of conference booklet:

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Conference Program VIII IX

PAPERS

DESALINATION - A LEVERAGE FOR COMPREHENSIVE LAND AND WATER MANAGEMENT- OPENING LECTURE

Mr. Meir Ben-Meir(Water Commissioner) ₁

CURRENT GUIDELINES AND TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL PARAMETERS BY THE ISRAEL WATER COMMISSION FOR EXECUTING THE FIRST LARGE-SCALE SEA-WATER DESALINATION PROJECT IN ISRAEL

Daniel Hoffman (Director, Adan Technical & Economical Services Ltd.) ₄

EXPERIENCE, CAPABILITIES AND PLANS FOR ERECTING LARGE SEA-WATER DESALINATION PLANTS

Pinhas Glueckstern (Senior Desalination Consultant, Mekorot Water Co.) and Menachem Priel (Manager, Desalination & Special Projects Division, Mekorot

Water Co.) 21

IONICS EXPERIENCE IN WATER DESALINATION OVER A PERIOD OF FOUR DECADES

Arthur L. Goldstein (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ionics Incorporated) 35

TAMPA BAY DESALINATION PROJECT: AN EPOCH-MAKING IDEA THAT WILL OPEN NEW MARKETS.

Edward J. Sondey (Senior Vice President. Poseidon Resources Corporation) 39

LARNACA - A BOOT PROJECT CASE STUDY

Gustavo Kronenberg (Vice-President Marketing, Israel Desalination Engineering) 48

SUEZ-LYONNAISE DES EAUX AT THE HEART OF LIFE

Jean Horgen (Suez-Lyonnaise Israel Resident Manager) 56

MEMBRANE AND THERMAL DESALINATION TECHNOLOGIES AND VIVENDI WATER'S ROLE IN LARGE DESALINATION FOR ISRAEL

Marie Marguerite Bourbigot (Technical Development & Innovation Director,

Vivendi Water) and Tom Pankratz (Director of Corporate Projects, Vivendi Water) ₅₉

DESALINATION SHIPS

Shlomo Rodav (Torrel Energy), Reinhard B. Klose (Salzgitter Gmbh) and S.

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PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS 80

ISRAEL DESALINATION FORUM and ISRAEL DESALINATION SOCIETY 83

Advertisements

DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY – FILMTEC® _{MEMBRANES (Jacobson Agencies) 84}

HYDRANAUTICS 85

IDE TECHNOLOGIES 86

IONICS INCORPORATED 87

KEMIRA KEMWATER (Jacobson Agencies) 88

MEKOROT - ISRAEL NATIONAL WATER CO. 89

TAHAL CONSULTING ENGINEERS 90

TAMBOUR ECOLOGY 91

THE ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION 92

THE WATER COMMISSION - MINISTRY OF NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES 93

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

08:30- 9:30 Registration

09:30- 9:50 GREETINGS SESSION

Chair: David Hasson (WRI Rabin Desalination Laboratory)

Major General (Res.) Amos Lapidot, President of the Technion

Eng. Koussai Quteishat, Director of the Middle East Desalination Research Center Professor Avishai Braverman, President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Professor Uri Shamir, Director of Technion’s Water Research Institute

OPENING LECTURE

09:50-10:25 Mr. Meir Ben-Meir (Water Commissioner), MINISTRY OF NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES, Israel

Desalination - a Leverage for Comprehensive Land and Water Management

SESSION I

Chair: Shmuel Kantor (Senior Advisor)

10:25-11:00 Daniel Hoffman (Director); ADAN TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC SERVICES LTD, Tel-Aviv,Israel

Current Guidelines and Technical and Commercial Parameters by the Israel Water Commission for Executing the First Large-Scale Sea-Water Desalination Project in Israel

11:00-11:35 Pinhas Glueckstern (Senior Desalination Consultant) and Menahem Priel (Manager, Desalination & Special Projects Division)); MEKOROT-WATER Co., Tel-Aviv, Israel

Experience, Capability and Plans for Erecting Large Sea-Water Desalination Plants

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Chair: Nathan Berkman (Adan Technical & Economic Services Ltd.)

12:00-12:35 Arthur L. Goldstein (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; IONICS Incorporated, Watertown MA, USA

IONICS Experience in Water Desalination over a Period of Four Decades 12:35-13:10 Edward J. Sondey (Senior Vice President); POSEIDON RESOURCES

CORPORATION, Stamford CT, USA

Tampa Bay Desalination Project: an Epoch-Making Idea That Will Open New Markets

13:10-13:40 MEETING OF THE ISRAEL DESALINATION SOCIETY

13:40-14:40 Lunch

SESSION III

Chair: Amitzur Barak (Water Commission)

14:40-15:15 Gustavo Kronenberg (Vice-President Marketing); IDE Technologies Ltd. (ISRAEL DESALINATION ENGINEERING), Rananna, Israel

Larnaca - a BOOT Project Case Study

15:15-15:50 Jean Horgen (Israel Resident Manager); LYONNAISE DES EAUX, Paris, France Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux at the Heart of Life

SESSION IV

Chair: Raphael Semiat (WRI Rabin Desalination Laboratory)

15:50-16:25 Marie-Marguerite Bourbigot (Technical Development & Innovation Director) & Tom Pankratz (Director of Corporate Projects); VIVENDI WATER, Paris, France

Membrane and Thermal Desalination Technologies and Vivendi Water's Role in Large-Scale Desalination for Israel

16:25-17:00 Shlomo Rodav (Torrel Energy-Israel), Reinhard B. Klose (Salzgitter Analgenbau Gmbh-Germany) and Sreedharan Jayakumar (Keppel FELS-Singapore); RED-MED MARINE DESALINATION CONSORTIUM

Desalination Ships

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PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

THE WATER COMMISSION

MINISTRY OF NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL

The Water Commission is responsible for the overall management of Israel’s water resources with the aim of ensuring a steady water supply to all Israel's residents over time for the diverse consumption uses - domestic, industrial and agricultural. The Water Commission is further responsible for setting the water economy policy, planning and development of the water economy, preventing the pollution of water sources, regulation of streams and flood prevention, utilization of overflow water, development of new water sources, utilization of waste water, development of desalination plants and promotion of efficient water use.

ADAN TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC SERVICES

Adan is a consulting company serving Israeli Government and industry in the fields of water and wastewater treatment, energy and the environment. For the past ten years it has been the principal desalination consultant to the Israel Water Commissioner and its Planning, Development, and Water Quality, Pollution Control and Wastewater Reuse Divisions. It has recently drafted, on behalf of the Water Commissioner and under the guidance of a Steering Committee, the Tender Documents for implementing the first large-scale sea-water desalination project in Israel.

MEKOROT WATER COMPANY

K IONICS

In the past four decades Ionics has built over 3,000 desalination plants, an amount greater than that built by any other company in the world. Ionics is also a project developer and owner and operator of desalination plants, when such scope suits the needs of the customer. Ionics currently has 2300 employees worldwide at 90 locations in 62 countries. It has a strong on-going R&D activity. It manufactures several types of membranes used in desalination and wastewater treatment and also has divisions which specialize in ultrapure water, consumer water products, including bottled water, and water monitoring. Ionics is the largest independent water purification equipment and systems company in the USA.

POSEIDON RESOURCES

Poseidon Resources is a US-based developer of water and wastewater infrastructure projects. Teaming with industry leaders, Poseidon conceives, structures and invests in large-scale projects in the US and abroad. Poseidon has developed the largest wastewater privatization in the US, the largest desalination project in the US, and the largest project holdings in Mexico’s water treatment sector.

ISRAEL DESALINATION ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES

IDE Technologies is a pioneer and leader in the delivery of sophisticated water solutions. IDE develops, designs and installs and maintains plants for saline water desalination, effluent concentration and purification of industrial streams and water treatment. Since its beginning in 1965, IDE has installed over 300 plants in 36 countries.

SUEZ-LYONNAISE DES EAUX

L VIVENDI WATER

Generale des Eaux, established in 1853, is a world leader in water treatment and distribution services for over 100 million people in more than 100 countries. With the acquisition of US Filter earlier this year, Vivendi’s subsidiaries, including Generale des Eaux, now account for 8.9% of the worldwide desalination market. Generale des Eaux desalination providers include: OTV - a leading private contractor for designing and building water and wastewater treatment facilities and SIDEM - a world leader in sea-water desalination specializing in thermal processes. US filter owns 4 important subsidiaries in the desalination market: USF Metito, USF Enerserve, USF Bekox and USF Memcor.

MED-RED MARINE DESALINATION CONSORTIUM

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ISRAEL DESALINATION FORUM and

ISRAEL DESALINATION SOCIETY

In the last few years, a group of about 20 water professionals who share the belief that large scale desalination in Israel is overdue, created an informal “desalination forum”. Members of this forum (page V) represent various facets of the water establishment in Israel: water supply companies, desalination industries, consulting offices, equipment and systems suppliers, government departments, research groups and academic institutions. The group met regularly to discuss desalination issues and to promote public awareness on the need of desalination.

The main achievements of this group to date are as follows. A 2 day Conference was organized in May 1998 on the topic “Desalination in Israel-present and future”. This meeting, held with the active participation of the Israel Government Water Commissioner, attracted 180 specialists. The 160 pages of the Conference Proceedings, published by Technion’s Water Research Institute (in Hebrew), cover practically all aspects relating to desalination in Israel. The conference Proceedings were summarized by A. Shauly in the paper “Desalination in Israel-Present and Future”, published in Desalination Vol. 120 (1998) pp. 281-284.

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