On April 18, 2011 the Global Water Awards once again honored outstanding projects in the field of industrial water recovery and treatment. This year a project from BAUER Water was nominated in the category “Industrial Water Project of the Year”: the innovative reed-bed treatment plant in the Sultanate of Oman on the Arabian Peninsula has a good chance of winning an award. Since November 28, 2010 – precisely two years to the day after the contract was awarded by the client Petroleum Development Oman – produced water has been flowing into the world's biggest commercial reed-bed sewage treatment plant, which covers 235 ha. This has been achieved by local resources subsidiary BAUER Nimr LLC in a build-own-operate project and with the aid of a finance package from the German Investment and Development Corporation (DEG). The plant is currently purifying around 47,000 m3 of contaminated water every day, achieving a level of purification of 99.5%. Furthermore, biomass is also produced as a possible energy source and a biotope. One other valuable by-product is salt, which remains after the water has been evaporated and is to be used in industry.
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