Siemens to Provide Water Treatment System to Indian Power Plant

Siemens Water Technologies has received a contract to provide a water treatment system for Torrent Power’s UNOSUGEN gas-based combined cycle power plant in Surat, India.

Under the contract, Siemens will supply two Contrafast Concentric systems, which will treat water from the Tapi River and produce up to four million gallons per day of cooling tower make-up water.

The Contrafast Concentric system is a high-rate clarification and thickening process that consists of a solids contact reaction chamber, a clarifier with a tube settler and a gravity thickener in a single tank.

The design will allow for an 80% reduction in footprint compared with conventional clarification systems, and the process will enhance suspended solids removal, lime softening and heavy metals removal.

Siemens Water Technologies in India will engineer and source the system hardware, with design review and onsite technical services provided by Siemens Water Technologies in US.