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Throughout the world, SUEZ brings its customers (local authorities, industrial, consumers) concrete solutions to face the new challenges of resource management.
This extension increased the plant’s capacity from 267,000 to 365,000 m3 per day in order to satisfy the demand of an estimated 3.5 million inhabitants, representing almost 35% of the county’s population. The project also contributed to developing local economic activity by creating jobs and supplying the water needed to irrigate crops. The As Samra plant has been designed to produce treated water of very high quality that can be recycled and optimized by farmers and industrials. Hydraulic turbines installed up- and downstream, combined with gas engines powered by biogas from digestion of treatment sludge, produce 80% of the electricity required for the treatment process.
Ministère jordanien de l’Eau et de l’Irrigation, Morganti, Samra Project Company
The objective of the BIOVALSAN project is to demonstrate the feasibility and the environmental and economic interests of large-scale exploitation of biogas from wastewater treatment plants. BIOVALSAN makes it possible to produce “green” gas from wastewater and to feed it into the natural gas distribution network.
European Commission (50% co-funded), SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg, Gaz de Strasbourg (GDS), SGS Multilab, Eurofins Expertises Environnementales / Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg
It is the most important public-private partnership (PPP) in the world in the water sector. Our mission: finance, design, build and operate the largest reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant in the southern hemisphere and support Australia in its transition toward green growth.
Victoria State Authorities
Aguas Andinas, the Chilean Subsidiary of SUEZ, has set itself the goal of transforming wastewater treatment plants in the city of Santiago into biofactories to convert wastewater into clean energy and secondary raw materials. Its goal ? Making three of its plants carbon neutral and zero waste by 2022 through the self-consumption of green energy (recovered by sewage sludge) and reinjection into the urban network. The remaining waste is cleaned and recycled for development in urban construction projects or as agricultural fertilizer. Once the water is treated, it is released into the natural environment and is a source of quality irrigation for farmers. In 2017, the three plants produced 46 GWh of electricity for their own energy consumption, which reduced their indirect greenhouse gas emissions by more than 30 000 Tons CO2. They also reinvested a surplus of 3 GWh on the grid, thus helping to avoid more than 20 000 tons of CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gases for the city.
The La Farfana water treatment plant is one of Suez’s concrete responses to the challenge of climate change. La Farfana, the world’s first biofactory, has even higher ambitions: it is poised to meet its objective of zero waste, zero environmental impact, and zero consumption of fossil fuels. The plant recovers 100% of wastewater, converting it into new resources such as biogas for producing electricity and heat, and turning sludge into fertilizer for the region's farmers. 100% of the biogas produced from the sewage sludge is reused. In 2018, La Farfana received the “Momentum for Change” award. The biofactory concept is applied to all of Greater Santiago’s treatment plants: La Farfana, Mapocho, and El Trebal. La Farfana is the biggest plant in terms of capacity. By recovering sludge, the three plants produce 49 million kWh of electricity, the annual consumption of 50,000 inhabitants, plus 177 kWh of natural gas, the annual consumption of 22,500 inhabitants.
