FRANKENTHAL, Germany (April 7, 2014) – KSB Aktiengesellschaft will be one of the suppliers providing equipment to the YANBU 3 power station in Saudi Arabia that also comprises a seawater desalination plant. For this project, the company will supply over the next years mainly 15 large high-pressure boiler feed pumps with variable speed drives of a total value of more than €30 million. The customer in this case is a consortium of two Saudi companies. KSB will manufacture the required pumps at its factory in Frankenthal. From 2017, the power station fired with heavy fuel oil and located at the shores of the Red Sea will generate more than 2700 megawatts (MW) of electricity at five units. It will be used to supply electricity to the west of the country, for example, to cities like Jeddah, Mecca and Medina. The associated seawater desalination plant, which will make use of the power station's electricity and accumulated steam, is to provide 550,000 cubic meters of drinking water per day. KSB Aktiengesellschaft is a pump and valve manufacturer based in Frankenthal, Germany.
Mon, 04/07/2014 - 00:00