Kuwaiti desalination plant to use Asahi Kasei’s Microza membrane

Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Co Ltd has selected Asahi Kasei’s Microza hollow-fiber membrane as pretreatment for the Doha Phase 1 reverse osmosis (RO) seawater desalination plant to be built in Kuwait.

The Asahi Kasei membrane treatment capacity for the project will be 610 000 tons per day, which is the largest hollow-fiber filtration membrane order that the Japanese company has received to date.