Flowserve to supply pumping systems for US seawater desalination plant

US-based flow control products and services provider Flowserve has won a contract from Israel-based IDE Technologies to supply pumping systems for the seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant located in Carlsbad, California.

IDE Technologies will design the 189,250m³/day Carlsbad desalination plant and will operate it for 30 years.

The company has purchased three large Flowserve vertical seawater intake pumps to supply the highly corrosive raw seawater to the plant. Eight large vertical double-suction twin-volute pumps have also been purchased to transfer potable water from the SWRO plant to the San Diego County Water Authority distribution system.

Flowserve sales organisation president Jim Quain said that as a global leader in the growing desalination industry, Flowserve pumps provide an established track record for efficiency and reliability.

"Because IDE will operate the SWRO plant for the next 30 years, proven reliability was a key factor in the award of this contract," Quain added.

Construction is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2015 on the project, which is anticipated to become the largest desalination plant in North America.