Background
A Tier 1 mining company was set to construct a world class 500-room FIFO mining camp with resort-like rooms and multi-purpose courts for basketball, tennis and volleyball, a football oval with goal posts, cricket nets, a mini golf course, a fitness park with outdoor gym facilities and a wellness loop with running track.
MAK Water has been a long term and trusted supplier to this client, and we worked cooperatively with their internal project delivery team during the budgeting phase. Once the project was given the go-ahead, MAK Water was subsequently awarded the contract to design, manufacture, supply and commission both the potable water plant and sewage treatment plant to serve the large camp.
Solution
Potable water plant comprising 240 kL/day brackish water reverse osmosis and a 200 kL/day Membrane Bioreactor.
MAK Water Key Solutions
ENGINEERING AND DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
- Detailed 3D modelling for human factors engineering
- Client specific drawing & data package
- Compliant with client preferred specifications
- Premium Instrumentation package with ClearAccess remote monitoring
- Insulated & air conditioned for hot Pilbara climate
CONTAINERISED POTABLE WATER PLANT
- pH correction, disinfection and anti-scalant dosing
- Two stage brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO)
- Separate after-treatment and distribution pump setups for potable and irrigation streams
Results and benefits
- Fast Delivery. A packaged plant enabled approvals to be fast tracked to achieve client’s project timeline
- Safe, compliant effluent. Membranes provide a physical barrier to viruses and pathogens, as well as suspended solids. The disinfection system includes UV, tank chlorine recirculation and online analysers for monitoring of free chlorine, pH and turbidity
- Plant Reliability. The robust dual-train design and standby equipment selection ensures plant is always available and effluent complies with requirements for reuse
- Flexibility. A two-train design gave the client flexibility to handle the initial low flows while having design capacity to ramp up to the maximum flows as the project progressed to the final stages.
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