Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH — The Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has set a world record in the Guinness World Records for the lowest energy-consuming desalination plant in the world at 2.27 kilowatt/hour per cubic meter of desalinated water in the new desalination plant.

SWCC, along with the record, has reinforced its global leadership in the desalination industry, continuing its plans to achieve the goals of the Kingdom's Vision 2030, and enabling local content in all its current and future development projects.

SWCC invested its engineering and research expertise to expand in design innovation, implementation and supply of the new high-efficiency desalination plant that is the least energy-consuming and most flexible in operation and mobility.

It was with the efforts of its national cadres that contributed to reaching this new world record, which enhances operation efficiency and contributes to reducing energy consumption to unprecedented levels, through the painstaking efforts of its research institute over a period of seven months.

Its new plant operates with an environment-friendly reverse osmosis technology that has been carried out with the latest international standards and specifications to develop supply chains.

The new plant’s technology also reduces operation costs, and achieves profitable financial returns, with easy and smooth dismantling and transfer of all parts of the plant, as it is fully operated with an integrated control system with the latest technologies.

This plant applies pioneering advanced technologies and an innovative design philosophy that has contributed to reducing the total power to these record levels.

The plant is deemed a mobile seawater intake system that operates with the latest ERD energy recovery technology and is equipped with highly efficient pumps.