Salmson treats water in Morocco

By Batipole Edition Published on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 02:00 AM

Photo credits : Salmson

To treat Morocco's wastewater, Salmson was asked to design several treatment plants to collect domestic and industrial wastewater, as well as wastewater from the Nouasseur airport. These projects were achieved through the joint work of Biwater for the plants and Salmson for the agitators.

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SALMSON & BIWATER equip Morocco

As part of the partnerships that are regularly formed between the Key Accounts & Specification unit of SALMSON 's Water Cycle department and BIWATER - a major global challenger in the water industry - two wastewater treatment plants, designed by Biwater and equipped with SALMSON pumps and agitators, will be built in Morocco.

TWO PROJECTS: NOUASSEUR & BENSLIMANE

During 2008, ONDA - Office National Des Aéroports du Maroc - awarded the tender for the design and construction of a wastewater treatment plant on the Nouasseur airport platform to the company BIWATER .

The Nouasseur plant, which will be commissioned this year, will collect and treat two types of effluent. One, domestic wastewater from nearby populated areas, corresponding to 31 population equivalents with a capacity of 800 m3/day. The other, consisting of more heavily laden or more aggressive water, coming from the international industrial and economic platform of the Nouasseur aeropolis as well as effluent from its airport.

This second group corresponds to 14 population equivalents with a capacity of 400 m1/day. Nouasseur Airport is one of the largest in Africa with 400 million passengers/year.

ONDA, the project owner, was very satisfied with the work carried out and the SALMSON products installed. Therefore, for the second project, which involves a second station, again in an airport zone but this time for the rapidly developing city of Benslimane, located 60 km east of Casablanca, BIWATER , encouraged by its client's satisfaction, renewed its collaboration with SALMSON for the supply of pumps and agitators for the station.

At the Benslimane site, the second treatment plant is configured for a fairly high inlet flow rate, with a volume of 20 population equivalents for 000 m3/day. It should be operational during the second half of 000.

In order to carry out these two operations, SALMSON is currently delivering a first part of the following equipment and systems which will be distributed across the two different sites: 15 new TR agitators and their accessories, 16 FA pumps and their accessories, 1 new generation Alti-Nexis high-efficiency blower and 16 SBF pumps and their accessories.

Given the quality of the partnership between SALMSON and BIWATER , the constructive exchanges between these companies on previous projects, and the efficient collaboration achieved both in the preliminary technical studies and during the ONDA tender process, this partnership appears to be a true success. SALMSON and BIWATER are already working on new international projects.