Upgrade meets half the island’s daily water demand The current desalination plant is the second on the La Rosière site, which is in the south-west corner of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. It was opened in 1999 as a replacement for an earlier distillation plant that had reached the end of its life. After the new plant had been in service for almost two decades, the ever-growing need for water on the island, due to population growth and climate change, led to the decision to undertake a major upgrade. This would increase the plant’s capacity from 6 Ml/day to 10.8 Ml/day, which is sufficient to meet around half of the island’s daily demand for water. The upgrade involved the installation of a large number of new pumps, almost all of which would need to be controlled by AC drives. After investigating the available options and going through a competitive tendering process, Jersey Water decided that the VLT® AQUA Drive was the most suitable choice on both technical and commercial grounds. Accordingly, these drives were specified for all applications related to the upgrade project. 2 Danfoss Drives · DKDD.PC.225.A1.02
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