Qatar Ras Laffan C IWPP

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Hyundai E&C presented light and the water of life to the desertLocated in the eastern part of the Arabian peninsula, Qatar’s per capita the real GDP growth rate was the second highest and it ranked third in the world’s natural gas reserves. Despite its reputation as an “energy powerhouse,” Qatar suffered from absolute water shortage like any other countries in the Middle East. With the technical competence of Hyundai E&C, Qatar’s Ras Laffan C IWPP (RAPO), the world’s largest fresh water·power generation plant was completed and supplied the “water of life” to people in Qatar.The largest scale as a single plant constructionThe Ras Laffan Industrial Complex is located 70km north of Doha, the capital of Qatar. The RAPO constructed by Hyundai E&C could be seen in the Complex. As the largest scale in a single plant construction won by a Korean construction company, it was a USD 2.7 billion contract. Hyundai E&C officially signed the contract by beating other global leading construction companies. Twice amount of electric power than that of Shin Kori reactor, generating the amount of water consumed by half of the entire population of QatarThe construction site was equipped with a facility can generate 2730MW and 63MIGD (=286.4 million ℓ/day) with a ultra-large industrial infrastructure where the IWPP to be constructed. The IWPP generated electricity with natural gas and water for living with seawater. In terms of electricity, it was two times larger than the capacity of Shin Kori Unit 3·4 (1400MW), a large-scale reactor built for the first time in Korea. In terms of water, the scale was equivalent to the amount of water could be consumed by half of the entire population in Qatar. The site was largely divided into a power and water block. In the power block, GTG, HRSG, STG, Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) were installed. The water block was equipped with Multiple Effect Distillation (MED), turning the seawater into distilled water with the remaining steam after generating electricity in STG, a limestone zone adding minerals to the distilled water, a water storage tank, and Portable Transfer Water Pump (PWTP) could carry water to all parts of Qatar, where water was in need.The surrounding facility was also beyond our imagination in terms of size. The 240m wide, 120m long water storage tank was equivalent to that of two football stadiums combined. The MED manufactured as a package-type in advance to shorten the construction period, was so large that it had to be carried via a vessel. When being transported on the road, the neighboring streetlights and roads were removed since the size was equivalent to ten large containers combined.

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