Recently, Shanghai Electric Power Station Auxiliary Equipment Works won the bid for Shandong Yulong Petrochemical seawater desalination project with a daily output of 160,000 tons, marking a good start for the marketing of seawater desalination in 2022. It was also a great victory of Shanghai Electric, which attached great importance to both pandemic control and production.

Bidding negotiations were conducted at the critical stage of COVID-19 prevention and control in Shanghai. The management of Shanghai Electric Power Generation Equipment Co., Ltd. Power Station Auxiliary Equipment Works paid high attention to the negotiations, and established the special working group to work against time and the pandemic. The special working group, making full use of telephone, e-mail, WeChat, cloud video and other means, strengthened the communication with the customer through online presentation, telephone negotiation and video meeting. In addition, considering the lock-down policy, the working group assigned responsible personnel to the bidding site in advance, proposed countermeasures against all difficulties and uncontrollable factors in prediction, and formulated a well thought-out bidding program. Through unremitting efforts, Shanghai Electric had been highly recognized by the customer for its organizational capability, service attitude and excellent technical program, and therefore gained the order and signed the contract with the customer online. In particular, Shanghai government announced the lock-down of Pudong and Punan on the evening of March 27; and, within only one hour and a half, the Party Committee of the Auxiliary Equipment Works assembled 110 Party members and masses from Manufacturing Department, Process Department, Technological Development Department, Planned Logistics Office and General Manager’s Office to work at the front line and implement closed-loop management, in order to strictly prevent and control the pandemic and meanwhile guarantee the smooth production and operation of the company.
By winning this bid, Shanghai Electric Power Station Auxiliary Equipment Works fully displays its comprehensive strength in domestic seawater desalination industry, and further consolidates its leading position in the sector. Also by undertaking this project, Shanghai Electric is practicing its 14th Five-year Plan, taking the initiative to integrate itself into the national environmental protection strategy, and promoting green development. Taking this project as an opportunity, Shanghai Electric will give further play to its industrial advantages, work in a down-to-earth way, and drive its high-quality development.
This project is located at Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Industrial Park in the south of Bohai Bay, by which freshwater will be produced by the seawater desalination plant utilizing the waste heat and electric energy from Yulong refining projects, and be applied as water for refining and chemical production. In this way, the consumption of surface water and groundwater will be reduced. Based on the thermal and membrane hybrid process, this project produces an aggregate of 160,000 tons of water on a daily basis, including 80,000 from membrane desalination and 80,000 tons from thermal desalination.