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
- Developer
- Befesa
- 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
7 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.
- 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. ; Miklyaev, Jenkins and Adeshina (2022), Table 2. cri-world.com.
- 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.