100,000
Equivalent Population
CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
Over 2,000 million people in the world live without access to a basic drinking water service, and 3,6 billionhave no access to a basic sanitation service, resulting in avoidable deaths, chronic disease, fewer hours of education and low productivity.
ACCIONA has positioned itself as a key player in the water treatment sector. Its innovative management seeks to resolve the challenges with respect to the shortage of water resources.
CLIMATE ACTION
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
The generation and use of energy accounts for 35 % of total greenhouse gas emissions in the world. This activity is the largest contributor to global warming. Investment in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other low-carbon technologies will continue to be essential to meet the emerging needs of humanity and to minimize their negative impact on the environment.
ACCIONA considers the fight against climate change and its effects to be a strategic priority. The company works to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in order to contribute to the progress of society and respond to the main challenges of sustainable development in the areas of infrastructure, water and energy, leading the transition to a low-carbon economy.
In 1999, an extension to the facility was built increasing its capacity to 25,000 m3/day, thus guaranteeing the supply of water to 100% of the Community (100,000 inhabitants). In November 2002, a reconversion of the facilities was completed allowing for a production of 33,000 m3/day and thus tackle the predicted increase in demand.
General Information
- Project: Southeast SWRO
- Entity: Association of Southeast Gran Canaria.
- Location: Santa Lucía, Gran Canaria. Spain.
- Flow: 33,000 m3/day.
Key points
- Seawater catchment is carried out using 17 wells with 150 m depths.
- Dosage of hypochlorite, ferric chloride and sulphuric acid.
- Pumping through 2 vertical centrifuge pumps with a flow of 550 m3/h.
- The plant has 4 sand filters (after the first expansion).
- The safety filtration has 4 cartridge filters (after the first expansion) plus one in reserve.
- Two high pressure groups plus one reserve group with divided chamber multi-stage pumps, 950 kw motor and Francis turbines for energy recovery.
- For reverse osmosis, it has 4 frames with a capacity of 7,500 m3/day.
- Reconversion. Since the marine aquifer was at its limit, the reconversion consisted of increasing the conversion factor, meaning obtaining more product flow from the same supply flow (8,000 m3/day).
- Remineralisation system based on the injection of CO2 and Nutritious lime Hydroxide, which allows for the adaptation of the pH and the hardness of the product water.