12.01.2009

CPCL’s Desalination Plant commissioned

The 5.8 Million Gallons per Day (MGD) (26.367 Million Litres per Day (MLD)) Reverse Osmosis (RO) based Desalination Plant of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL), built at a cost of Rs.231.34 Crore at Kattupalli Village, Ponneri Taluk, Tiruvallur District has been commissioned on January 6, and the product water is routed to product water tank. The plant capacity is expandable to 10 MGD in future.

The Plant comprising an intake well is located at Bay of Bengal,500 mts from the landfall point at Ennore. The seawater at 3300 m3/hr. is pumped from the pump house to the RO plant facilities situated at 3.5 KM from the landfall point at Kattupalli. The RO plant comprising four trains has been fully erected and the two streams of pre-treatment sections have been commissioned.

The desalinated water will be supplied through pipeline from the Desalination Plant to the Refinery at Manali, which is about 20 kms from the plant. Out of this laying of pipeline for 18 km is already completed. Clearance by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)/ Tamil Nadu Road Development Corporation (TNRDC) for the Right of Way (ROW) of 1.97 km at Tiruvottiyur-Ponneri-Panchetty (TPP) High Road and completion of depository work of Pipe Line cross over under Howrah Railway lines near Athipattu by Southern Railways, Chennai; will facilitate transfer of water from these facilities to CPCL Refinery.

The De-salination plant when fully operational would facilitate CPCL achieving self-sufficiency to meet the current water requirements of its Manali Refinery complex as also the requirements of Euro IV/Revamps/Resid Upgradation projects which are under various stages of implementation.