{"id":2452,"date":"2015-03-17T13:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T13:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sasakurame.com\/?page_id=2452"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:33:57","slug":"shoaiba-plants-phase-1-rehabilitation-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/?page_id=2452","title":{"rendered":"Shoaiba Plants Phase 1 Rehabilitation Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flexslider ewic-slider-lite is_on_\" id=\"ewic-con-305969f75a7074999\"><style>#ewic-con-305969f75a7074999 .flex-direction-nav .flex-next, #ewic-con-305969f75a7074999 .flex-direction-nav .flex-prev {opacity: 1;} #ewic-con-305969f75a7074999 .flex-direction-nav .flex-next {right: 10px !important; text-align: right !important;} #ewic-con-305969f75a7074999 .flex-direction-nav .flex-prev {left: 10px !important;}<\/style><div id=\"preloader-305969f75a7074999\" class=\"sliderpreloader\"><\/div><ul style=\"display:none;\" class=\"slides flexslider-305969f75a7074999\"><li class=\"ewic-slider\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shoaibah-5.jpg\"  rel=\"ewicprettyPhoto[305969f75a7074999]\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"ewic-wid-imgs\" src=\"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shoaibah-5.jpg\" \/><p class=\"flex-caption\"><\/p><\/a><\/li><li class=\"ewic-slider\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shoaibah-2.jpg\"  rel=\"ewicprettyPhoto[305969f75a7074999]\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"ewic-wid-imgs\" src=\"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shoaibah-2.jpg\" \/><p class=\"flex-caption\"><\/p><\/a><\/li><li class=\"ewic-slider\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shoaiba-ECT.jpg\"  rel=\"ewicprettyPhoto[305969f75a7074999]\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"ewic-wid-imgs\" src=\"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shoaiba-ECT.jpg\" \/><p class=\"flex-caption\"><\/p><\/a><\/li><li class=\"ewic-slider\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shoaiba-Rehab.jpg\"  rel=\"ewicprettyPhoto[305969f75a7074999]\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"ewic-wid-imgs\" src=\"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shoaiba-Rehab.jpg\" \/><p class=\"flex-caption\"><\/p><\/a><\/li><li class=\"ewic-slider\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shoaibah-ECT-Work.jpg\"  rel=\"ewicprettyPhoto[305969f75a7074999]\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"ewic-wid-imgs\" src=\"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shoaibah-ECT-Work.jpg\" \/><p class=\"flex-caption\"><\/p><\/a><\/li><\/ul><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\tjQuery(document).ready(function($) {\r\n\r\n\t\t$(\"#preloader-305969f75a7074999\").fadeOut(500, function () {\r\n\r\n\t\t\t$(\"#ewic-con-305969f75a7074999\").addClass(\"ready_to_show\");\r\n\r\n\t\t\t$(\"a[rel^='ewicprettyPhoto[305969f75a7074999]']\").ewcPhoto({\r\n\t\t\t\ttheme: \"ewc_default\",\r\n\t\t\t\tallow_expand: false,\r\n\t\t\t\tdeeplinking: false,\r\n\t\t\t\tslideshow:5000,\r\n\t\t\t\tautoplay_slideshow:true,\r\n\t\t\t\tsocial_tools:false\r\n\t\t\t});\r\n\r\n\t\t\t$(\".flexslider-305969f75a7074999\").fadeIn(300);\r\n\r\n\t\t\t$(\"#ewic-con-305969f75a7074999\").flexslider({\r\n\t\t\t\tanimation: \"slide\",\r\n\t\t\t\tanimationSpeed: 0,\r\n\t\t\t\tuseCSS: false,\r\n\t\t\t\teasing: \"easeInQuad\",\r\n\t\t\t\tdirection: \"horizontal\",\r\n\t\t\t\tslideshow: true,\r\n\t\t\t\tsmoothHeight: true,\r\n\t\t\t\tpauseOnHover: true,\r\n\t\t\t\tcontrolNav: false,\r\n\t\t\t\tprevText: \"\",\r\n\t\t\t\tnextText: \"\",\r\n\t\t\t\trtl: false,\r\n\t\t\t\tslideshowSpeed: 5000,\r\n\t\t\t\tstart: function(slider){\r\n\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#ewic-con-305969f75a7074999\").find(\".flex-caption\").hide();\r\n\t\t\t\t\tvar curSlide = slider.find(\"li.flex-active-slide\");\r\n\t\t\t\t\t$(curSlide).find(\".flex-caption\").slideDown();\r\n\t\t\t\t},\r\n\t\t\t\tbefore: function(slider) {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#ewic-con-305969f75a7074999\").find(\".flex-caption\").slideUp();\r\n\t\t\t\t},\r\n\t\t\t\tafter: function(slider) {\r\n\t\t\t\t\tvar curSlide = slider.find(\"li.flex-active-slide\");\r\n\t\t\t\t\t$(curSlide).find(\".flex-caption\").slideDown();\r\n\t\t\t\t}\r\n\r\n\t\t\t});\r\n\r\n\t\t});\r\n\r\n\t});\r\n<\/script><\/div>\r\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Saline Water Conversion Corporation<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>Location:<\/strong> Shoaiba<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>Duration:<\/strong> June 2011 \u2013 May-2014<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>Contract Value:<\/strong> 222.4 Million Saudi Riyals<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scope of Work:<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Plant rehabilitation, Re-Tubing &amp; Venting system replacement to extend the plant life time for 15 years, 10 MSF units each of 22,280 M\u00b3\/Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Shoaiba Desalination &amp; Power Plant Phase 1 was installed in 1988 at Saudi Arabia-Red Sea coast south of Jeddah city, comprising of 5 STG sets each of capacity 62 MW and 10 MSF units each of capacity 970 m3\/hour.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The 10 units of Multi-Stage Flash (MSF) Evaporator are cross tube type and are consisting of the followings:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Heat recovery section, consists of 16 stages (Stage from 1 to 16) with 3957 tubes each stage. Brine Heater, with 3990 tubes and Top Brine Temperature of 90 ~ 110 oC.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Heat rejection condenser section, consists of 3 stages (Stages from 17 to 19) with 2527 tubes each stage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The plant has been in service for the past 24 years. At present the tube failure exceeded the allowable limit of 5~10% of some stage due to accumulation of stagnant non-condensable gases at above demister area.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Scope of Works for rehabilitation of these units are to measure each tube thickness by Eddy Current Test (ECT) for (10) Desal units plus Brine heater. The total no. of tubes to be examined by ECT are around 700,000 tubes. Then replace the defective tubes of which tube thickness is less than 70% of the original thickness. The replaced defective tubes are around 230,000 pieces.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Re-design venting system was completed in order to avoid accumulation of stagnant non-condensable gases to prevent\/minimize future tube failures.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The units had been handed over to SWCC after rehabilitations with the following excellent results:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Distillate Water Output at 100% load is 975.3 m\u00b3\/hour, against the origin design value 970 m\u00b3\/hour.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Distillate Water Output at 120% load estimated to be 1,170 m\u00b3\/hour, against the origin design value 1,164 m\u00b3\/hour.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Distillate Water conductivity obtained is around 1.8 ~ 2.5 \u03bcs\/cm, against the origin design value 50 \u03bcs\/cm i.e. TDS at around 2 ppm. The Gain Output Ratio (GOR) at 120 % Load, (Kg distillate Per Kg condensate) is obtained to be 9.1 against the original design value 8.1.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is notice that the unit performance and production quantity after rehabilitation by partial tube replacement and stages venting system modification are increased above the original design figures.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The result of Rehabilitation had shown increasing of the unit thermal efficiency over the original design by 10 % which save steam and fuel consumption.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The expected lifetime extension for the plant after rehabilitation works is estimated to be more than 15 years under normal operation &amp; maintenance condition<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As mentioned above this excellent result of rehabilitation works at Shoaiba Plant, <strong>Sasakura Middle East Company<\/strong> was highly appreciated and grated from the management of the client <strong>Saline Water Conversion Corporation<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2490,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2452","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-1","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2452\/revisions\/3060"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasakurame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}