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Company wins contract to develop the Kingdom’s first biosolids treatment complex
Madrid, 16 July 2024. Lantania has been awarded the contract for the construction of a biosolids treatment complex in NEOM, located in northwest Saudi Arabia. The infrastructure, water and energy group has signed a turnkey (EPC) contract for the design, construction and commissioning of a biosolids treatment plant, innovation centre and demonstration centre.
In a joint venture with the Saudi company Tawzea, Lantania will develop a facility will use a Sequential Biological Reactor (SBR) for water treatment and solar drying to treat sludge from a nearby wastewater recycling plant.
The innovation centre will serve to test new wastewater and biosolids treatment and recovery technologies and will be equipped with four test benches, two laboratories and additional space to accommodate testing of other technologies as they are developed.
An architecturally-designed biosolids demonstration centre will house a visitor centre with exhibition space, reception and viewing areas, test zones, a greenhouse, laboratories and support facilities.
Lantania’s thrid project in Saudi Arabia
As part of the Al-Badaa Water Recycling Plant upgrade, the NEOM biosolids complex will be Lantania’s third foray into Saudi Arabia. Last year, the company completed the construction of the Jubail 3 A desalination plant, one of the world’s largest reverse osmosis seawater desalination plants, which generates 600,000 m3/day of drinking water to supply a population equivalent of 1,600,000 inhabitants, thereby guaranteeing supply to the Eastern, Riyadh and Oassim provinces. This efficiently and sustainably designed desalination plant has achieved a world record for energy efficiency, with a consumption of less than 2.8kWh m3/day using seawater from the Persian Gulf.
Lantania also carried out the design, equipment supply and commissioning of a wastewater treatment plant for the Red Sea project, which is building a tourist city on the west coast of Saudi Arabia. The facility has a capacity to treat 16,000 m3/day of wastewater by means of a lagoon with a surface area of 46 hectares of artificial wetlands that guarantee an adequate amount of water for irrigation.