Fujairah F1 Independent Water and Power Plant or Fujairah F1 IWPP is an independent water and power plant (IWPP) at Qidfa',

Fujairah Fujairah City () is the capital of the emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. It is the List of cities in the United Arab Emirates, seventh-largest city in UAE, located on the Gulf of Oman (part of the Indian Ocean). It is the only Em ...

in the

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. It is located next to the

Fujairah F2 IWPP Fujairah F2 Independent Water and Power Plant or Fujairah F2 IWPP is an independent water and power plant (IWPP) at Qidfa', Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. It is located next to the Fujairah F1 IWPP plant south of Khor Fakkan and north of ...

. It is south of

Khor Fakkan Khor Fakkan () is a city and an exclave of the Emirate of Sharjah, located on the east coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), facing the Gulf of Oman, and geographically surrounded by the Emirate of Fujairah. The city, the second largest on ...

and north of the city of Fujairah. When constructed, the Fujairah plant was the first hybrid plant in the Middle East, and the largest desalination hybrid plant in the world.

History

A construction contract was awarded to Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Company in June 2001 and the contract was signed in June 2002. In August 2001, a contract for the transmission systems was awarded to a joint venture of Al Jaber Energy Services and

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. The first few liters of potable water were produced in April 2004. Total construction costs of the project were US$1.2 billion In June 2009 Sembcorp had announced that it had successfully boosted F1's power capacity by at least 40%.

Technical description

The Fujairah plant has an installed power capacity of 760 MW and it produces of water per day. It is a natural gas-fired plant supplied from the

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through the Al Ain-Fujairah pipeline. Its annual consumption is of natural gas. Its power generating side consists of four

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s, two

heat recovery steam generator A heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) is a heat exchanger that recovers heat from a hot gas stream, such as a combustion turbine or other waste gas stream. It produces steam that can be used in a process (cogeneration) or used to drive a steam ...

s and two

steam turbine A steam turbine or steam turbine engine is a machine or heat engine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work utilising a rotating output shaft. Its modern manifestation was invented by Sir Charles Par ...

s in a

combined cycle A combined cycle power plant is an assembly of heat engines that work in tandem from the same source of heat, converting it into mechanical energy. On land, when used to make electricity the most common type is called a combined cycle gas turb ...

configuration. 120 MW of capacity is used for the

water desalination Desalination is a process that removes mineral components from saline water. More generally, desalination is the removal of salts and minerals from a substance. One example is soil desalination. This is important for agriculture. It is possible ...

process and 36 MW accounted for the transmission lost, leaving 500 MW of capacity for supplies to the grid through a long double circuit 400 kV transmission line. For the water desalination, the Fujairah plant uses a combination of two different desalination technologies. of water is produced using

multi-stage flash distillation Multi-stage flash distillation (MSF) is a water desalination process that distills sea water by flashing a portion of the water into steam in multiple stages of what are essentially countercurrent heat exchangers. Current MSF facilities may h ...

(MSF) technology and of water is produced using reverse osmosis technology (RO). The water production system consists of five MSF units producing of water each and one RO unit. Potable water is stored in five tanks, each. The water output is pumped to Sweihan through a dual pipeline with an spur to Al Dhaid in

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Operating company

The plant was originally owned by the Union Water and Electricity Company (UWEC), established in June 2001 as a government owned company through the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA). The plant was operated and maintained by Sogex Oman under agreement with UWEC. In 2006, 40% stake in UWEC was sold to

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-based

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and

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took over the plant's operating activities. After privatization the company was renamed Emirates SembCorp Water and Power Company. Emirates Sembcorp Water & Power Co issued $400 million of senior secured project bonds in 2017 rated A2 by Moody's and rated A− by S&P. The offering was led by Citigroup and HSBC. Debt offerings like these are relatively new to the Middle East.

Future expansion

According to the privatization agreement, the power capacity of the Fujairah plant would be expanded by 225 MW and water production would be expanded by of water per day. The DBO work was completed in December 2015 & currently the Plant is under

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Infrastructures SA & Acciona Agua JV.The Plant uses

Dissolved Air flotation Dissolved air flotation (DAF) is a water treatment process that clarifies wastewaters (or other waters) by the removal of suspended matter such as oil or solids. The removal is achieved by dissolving air in the water or wastewater under pressure an ...

(DAF) &

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(DMF) for pre-treatment of the raw water.

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