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Degremont and Zenon team for Middle East reuse plant The state of Qatar Public Works Authority awarded
Degremont a contract to design and build and operate for ten years the
country’s largest wastewater treatment facility.
The 135,000 cubic meter per day plant, located 20 km west of The DBO (design build, operate) contract,
Degremont’s first for wastewater treatment in the The contract will be performed as a 50/50 joint
venture between Degremont and
its Japanese partner Marubeni Corporation civil works in its operation is
also awarded to Degremont Marubeni on a 70/30 basis, for a ten year
period. Degremont’s strategy is to expand its core business
from plants conception and construction to plants operation a large
cities. Under this contract, Degremont-Marubeni will
refurbish the existing plant and build a new and complete sewage treatment
facility. Degremont processe is based on several stages of treatment in
order to deliver high quality effluent standard: primary treatment by step
screening and grit removal, activated sludge secondary treatment and a
final state of the art treatment associating sand filtration and
ultrafiltration membranes. Sludge will also be extensively treated by
thickening, the robot digestion and dewatering. Zenon Environmental will be providing its proprietary
ZeeWeed membranes for tertiary treatment. Zenon’s ZeeWeed
untrafiltration membranes ensure that all the treated water is of superior
quality and pure enough for reuse and agricultural irrigation. Although
this isn’t Zenon’s first such order in the
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