{"id":3924,"date":"2019-09-03T14:19:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/project\/valdelentisco-desalination\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:57:45","slug":"desalination-valdelentisco","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/business\/projects\/desalination-valdelentisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Valdelentisco Desalination Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"    <m-hero type=\"detail\">\n            <c-breadcrumb label-text=\"Breadcrumb\" slot=\"breadcrumbs\" type='1' align='left left' wrap='wrapped wrapped' aria-label='You came from Projects'>\n                        <ol>\n\n                                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/\" title=\"Ferrovial\">Ferrovial<\/a><\/li>\n                                                                        <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/business-lines\/\" 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                               <div><span >70000<\/span><\/div>\n                                                                    <p>m\u00b3\/day<\/p>\n                                                            <\/li>\n                                            <\/ul>\n                                <c-icon slot=\"carouselIcon\" icon=\"airports\">\n                <\/c-icon>\n                    <\/m-project-detail>\n    \n\n\n<m-wysiwig class=\"wp-block-components-wysiwyg\"><div slot=\"maincontent\">\n<p>The new desalination plant, located in the Rambla de Valdelentisco, in Mazarr\u00f3n, Spain, has a production capacity of 57 hm\u00b3\/year (70,000 m\u00b3\/day) making it\u00a0<strong>the number one desalination plant in Europe and third in the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This desalination plant utilizes&nbsp;reverse osmosis technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The construction work for the project included a sea water intake using a 4.7 m high cylindrical tower, anchored at a depth of -25.4 m, and water intake pipes in two tranches. The first 627 m executed with jacking pipe, and the second using a 823 m long HDPE pipe, anchored in the seabed. The piping brings water to a pumping station equipped with 81 pumps that drive the water through a double GRP water pipe of 1,800 mm in diameter and 785 m in length to a 1,200 m\u00b3 water tank in the enclosure of the plant. From here it is piped for pre-treatment, including filtration and addition of reagents to eliminate any biological activity. Conditioning and water pressure then takes the water to a semi-permeable membrane that allows the water to pass but not any dissolved salts. The process is carried out in 14 separate lines, each with a capacity of 10,000 m\u00b3\/day. Plans exist to expand the facilities to include another 2 more lines in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The brine solution is sent to a hopper, where energy is first recovered in a Francis-type turbine (9,000 m\u00b3\/ h, power output 490 kW), and then the water is returned to the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resulting clean drinking water is piped to a storage tank, whereby it proceeds to be distributed for consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plant contains<strong> Processing Control<\/strong>, Reagent and Operation buildings, as well as those housing electricity infrastructure and transformers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/m-wysiwig>\n\n\n    <m-gallery :translations='{\n        &quot;prev&quot;:&quot;Previous&quot;,\n        &quot;next&quot;:&quot;Next&quot;,\n        &quot;paginationseparator&quot;:&quot;of&quot;,\n        &quot;close&quot;:&quot;Close&quot;\n    }' class='gutenberg'>\n\n    <div slot=\"header\">\n                    <p>Description placeholder<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n\n                    <div slot=\"carouselItem\" v-lazy:background-image=\"'https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/13135005\/idam-valdelentisco-panoramica-1280x720.jpg'\">\n                                    <\/div>\n                                <div slot=\"carouselItem\" v-lazy:background-image=\"'https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/13135007\/idam-valdelentisco-retocada-1280x720.jpg'\">\n                                    <\/div>\n                                <div slot=\"carouselItem\" v-lazy:background-image=\"'https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/13135009\/valdelentisco-grupos-motobomba-bastidores-ok-1280x720.jpg'\">\n                                    <\/div>\n                                <div slot=\"carouselItem\" v-lazy:background-image=\"'https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/13135010\/we2-desaladora-de-valdelentisco-murcia3-1280x720.jpg'\">\n                                    <\/div>\n                                <div slot=\"modalItem\">\n                    <img v-lazy=\"'https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/13135005\/idam-valdelentisco-panoramica-1280x720.jpg'\" alt=\"\" hidden\/>\n                <\/div>\n                                <div slot=\"modalItem\">\n                    <img v-lazy=\"'https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/13135007\/idam-valdelentisco-retocada-1280x720.jpg'\" alt=\"Desaladora de Valdelentisco\" hidden\/>\n                <\/div>\n                                <div slot=\"modalItem\">\n                    <img v-lazy=\"'https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/13135009\/valdelentisco-grupos-motobomba-bastidores-ok-1280x720.jpg'\" alt=\"\" hidden\/>\n                <\/div>\n                                <div slot=\"modalItem\">\n                    <img v-lazy=\"'https:\/\/static.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/13135010\/we2-desaladora-de-valdelentisco-murcia3-1280x720.jpg'\" alt=\"\" hidden\/>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/m-gallery>\n\n    \n\n    <m-projects-distributor2 :translations='{\n        &quot;prev&quot;:&quot;Previous&quot;,\n        &quot;next&quot;:&quot;Next&quot;,\n        &quot;paginationseparator&quot;:&quot;of&quot;\n    }'>\n                        <h2 slot=\"title\">\n                Related projects                <\/h2>\n                        <a slot='button' title='See more projects' href='https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en\/business-lines\/projects\/'>\n            See more projects        <\/a>\n\n            <\/m-projects-distributor2>\n\n    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":3925,"menu_order":0,"template":"","nivel-1":[15],"nivel-2":[615,585,3540,584,3536,586,3539,485,3998,598,582],"nivel-3":[367],"nivel-4":[309],"nivel-5":[7742],"class_list":["post-3924","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","nivel-1-construction","nivel-2-health-and-safety","nivel-2-hydraulic-works","nivel-2-edari-en","nivel-2-industrial-works","nivel-2-etap-en","nivel-2-public-works","nivel-2-idam-en","nivel-2-water","nivel-2-water-infrastructure","nivel-2-water-treatment-plant","nivel-2-works","nivel-3-spain","nivel-4-murcia-en","nivel-5-cadagua-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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