Australian Water Management Review Vol 1 2010

Hatch provision and reticulation of all services and the Energy Recovery system. Hatch is a global engineering services company, with 8000 staff located in offices around the world. The company has $50 billion of projects under management and provides engineering, management and consulting services to client projects worldwide, to the mining and metals, energy and infrastructure sectors. Hatch has earned a reputation for innovation, engineering excellence and project management skills which add value at each stage of the client’s project. For these reasons, Hatch maintains exceptional long term relationships with leading mining companies such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Xstrata and Alcoa. Globally, Hatch’s experience in the Infrastructure sector provides clients with services to design, procure and contract manage the construction of wharfs, coal terminals, dams, rail, roads, airports and municipal and industrial water systems. Hatch’s engineering services are backed by its in-house Environment and Community Interface Group. Most recently, Hatch, in Australia has applied these skills, with outstanding results, to infrastructure projects, for industrial and public sector clients, for projects in Australia and overseas. Current projects include: • Luggage Point Advanced Water Treatment Plant, Queensland, Australia Hatch was a member of an integrated engineering team which undertook the design of the plant. Hatch provided significant process, design, and management expertise to the project which was engineered entirely using Hatch’s suite of design tools. • Adelaide Desalination Plant, South Australia, Australia Hatch is a member of the Design JV group for the Adelaide Aqua Consortia. The scope of the design work included the seawater intake/ outfall structures and pipelines, the intake pumping station, all site structures, all site civil works, the Water Management Review 2010 • Mosaic Company Phosphate Spent Liquor Plant, Florida, USA Australian Hatch offices provided piloting, process design and commissioning support for the Mosaic Company Phosphate Spent Liquor Plant which is installed in a phosphate facility in Florida, USA. Hatch progressed this project from concept, through piloting, detail design, supply commissioning and operation. The plant provides an environmental and potential yield benefit to Mosaic and was commissioned in 2009. • Koniambo Nickel SAS, New Caledonia Hatch is involved in the engineering and construction of the US$2.2 billion project in the northern province of New Caledonia. The project includes the construction of a 35 megawatt power facility, a metallurgical plant, mine development and all associated infrastructure. The water infrastructure which includes a 40 MW open-loop cooling water system for shotting of the ferronickel product, a 200 m3/h SWRO desalination plant, 75 m3/h RO/EDI demineralised water treatment plant, submarine ocean in take and outfall and water storage and reticulation systems. An integrated water management plan was incorporated into the design phase to optimise water recycle and reuse opportunities, minimise water consumption and wastewater generation. Having acquired BHP Engineering and Kaiser Engineers, Hatch has deep roots in Australia where it operates from three major hub offices, Brisbane, Wollongong and Perth, and a number of smaller offices. All Hatch’s Australian offices workshare between themselves and other Hatch hubs around the world so enabling optimum skills and resourcing to projects regardless of where they reside. Hatch has a complete engineering design and delivery system incorporating all engineering disciplines and integrated tools which link all aspects of the project such as design, budget, schedule and procurement. As part of Hatch’s infrastructure group, Hatch Water creates solutions to water and wastewater treatment, water supply and water management challenges. Hatch Water designs, constructs, commissions and operates water and other fluid treatment systems and has expertise in: • Desalination: Thermal, membrane, and emerging technologies • Biological Treatment: for sewage and industrial wastewater • Membrane Technologies: reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, micro-filtration, and membrane distillation. • Bioreactors • Media filtration: multi-media filters, sand filters, greensand filters, activated carbon filters, walnut shell filters, gravity and pressure filtration • Oil-water separation • Acid mine drainage treatment: high density sludge, low density sludge, membranes • Slurry handling: sludge pumping, filter presses, vacuum dryers • Acid mine drainage treatment (high density and low density sludge systems) • Site water management • Mine effluent treatment • Process Water Supply • Cooling water tower management • Boiler feed water • Flue gas desulphurization wastewater treatment and recycle • Produced water treatment • Oil sands surface mining water management and reuse • Potable water – membrane systems, contaminant removal, hardness reduction • Sewage treatment – membrane bioreactors, biological treatment, reuse • Advanced wastewater treatment for reuse

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