Ténès SWRO
Seawater RO, 200,000 m3/day; pressure exchangers saving about 17 MW, with electricity generated from surplus brine pressure and carbon dioxide produced on site for remineralisation in Algeria.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Algeria
- Location
- Ténès
- Coordinates
- 36.504, 1.226
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 200,000 m3/day; pressure exchangers saving about 17 MW, with electricity generated from surplus brine pressure and carbon dioxide produced on site for remineralisation
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Algerian Energy Company
- Contractor
- Befesa, the water arm of Abengoa
- Operator
- Abengoa
- Finance
- Twenty-five year operation and maintenance term from 2015
- Award or start year
- 2009
- Commissioned
- 2015-02
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2009-11
Contractor confirmed and energy recovery ordered
- 2015-02
Commercial operation began under a 25-year operation and maintenance term
- 2017-01
Final acceptance of the works
- 2019-01
Cumulative output passed 200 million m3
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Algerian Desalination Company, Tenes. aec.dz.
- 200,000 m3/day on an 8.78 hectare site at Tenes in Chlef, partner Abengoa.
- Smart Water Magazine, Algeria's Tenes desalination plant, built by Abengoa, produces 200 million m3 of drinking water (Jan 2019). smartwatermagazine.com.
- Commercial operation from February 2015 with final acceptance of the works in 2017 and a 25-year operation and maintenance term; cumulative output passed 200 million m3 by January 2019. Desalination.biz, Tenes desalination plant to have PX energy recovery (Nov 2009). desalination.biz.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
Names Befesa as contractor and records Tenes as the tenth Algerian plant to use pressure exchangers. Coordinates from OpenStreetMap way 345993069, named Usine de dessalement d'eau de mer de Tenes.