Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam (Doosan Vina) on Wednesday announced that it had completed and set in place for final assembly of the first section of the world’s largest-ever desalination evaporator.
The entire project involves three desalination evaporators, and each will be nearly the size of a football pitch when completed. The three are a part of the order for eight Evaporators for the Ras Az Zawr project in Saudi Arabia signed by Doosan last year.
The evaporators will be shipped from the company’s factory in Dung Quat Economic Zone in the central province of Quang Ngai and the other five will be fabricated at the company’s Korean facility.
Once completed and installed the eight desalination units will be capable of converting sea water into 728 million liters of fresh water per day, enough to meet the daily fresh water needs of two million people.
Each evaporator will weigh almost 4,000 tons and measures 10.6 meters high, 29.2 meters wide and 100.4 meters long, according to the statement.
Doosan Vina’s first Made-in-Vietnam Desalination Evaporator is now busy providing 91 million liters of clean water for a quarter million people in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Doosan Vina is a US$300 million investment in Dung Quat Economic Zone. The five business units of Doosan Vina in the zone are boiler, material handling equipment, heat recovery steam generator, desalination and chemical processing equipment.
The factories manufacture major infrastructure equipments for the power, water, logistics, and chemical industries worldwide.
The parent company, Doosan Heavy Industries of Korea, is a global enterprise operating in 33 countries with over 35,000 employees.
