Flowserve to provide pumps, energy recovery devices for Larnaca desalination plant in Cyprus

US-based flow control products and services provider Flowserve has won a multi-million dollar contract from M.N. Larnaca Desalination to provide pump and energy recovery devices (ERDs) for its desalination plant in Cyprus.

MN Larnaca, a joint venture between Israel’s Mekorot Development & Enterprise and Netcom of Cyprus, will design, reconstruct, and operate the upgraded facility in the city of Larnaca, Cyprus.

The plant was upgraded to 64,000m³ per day in 2008, with the installation of another unit that has a capacity of 10,000m³ per day.

Under the contract, Flowserve will supply complete pump package and ERDs for the 60,000m³ per day (15.9 million gallons per day) seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant.

The Larnaca desalination project will utilise Flowserve Calder dual work exchange energy recovery (DWEER) units along with Flowserve DMX pumps in the high-pressure feed service.

Flowserve, through its brand Calder, will supply the ERDs and related proprietary technologies for the reverse osmosis process.

The DWEER units are isobaric machines, which can recover about 97% of the hydraulic energy that remains in the brine stream and lower customer costs to operate the facility.

Flowserve worked closely with MN Larnaca to identify and design the economical ERDs and pump products as per the plant demand.

Flowserve Engineered Product Operations president Jim Quain said, "Flowserve’s proven track record for efficiency and reliability of our high-pressure pumps and Calder DWEERs, along with a low overall cost of ownership and an experienced global project management team, were major considerations in being awarded this order."

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Image: Larnaca seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Cyprus.