The city of Bamako will soon be equipped with a new drinking water plant. The contract has just been awarded to the French company Feljas & Masson, which specialises in the design, construction and maintenance of systems for the water market.
To improve the supply of drinking water to Bamako, the capital of Mali, the government is counting on a new drinking water treatment plant. The plant, which is due to be built in Djikoroni Para, a district around 6 km from the centre of Bamako, will be built by Feljas & Masson. The company, based in Carcassonne, France, was recently appointed by the Société Malienne de Patrimoine de l’Eau Potable (SOMAPEP).
The company, which specialises in the design, construction and maintenance of systems for the water market, will build Bamako’s new drinking water plant, which should increase the nominal production capacity of the left bank of Mali’s largest city, with an estimated population of more than 2.9 million by 2023.
Drinking water treatment using activated carbon injection
The future facility, on which work will start shortly, will have a daily capacity of 60,000 m3.
The treatment system to be used at the new Bamako drinking water treatment plant is activated carbon injection. The system chosen for this treatment is the one designed by Sodimate, in the form of a turnkey skid. The French supplier of water and smoke treatment equipment will therefore provide “two skids for the preparation and injection of quicklime and activated carbon, as well as two polymer preparation units” at the Djikoroni Para project site.
Sodimate’s hydro-ejector activated carbon injection system is designed to mix a powder and a fluid. The mixture of the driving fluid and the aspirated fluid enters a second nozzle where the velocity is transformed into pressure to reach the discharge pressure“, says Sodimate. What’s more, hydro-ejectors are systems with no moving parts, making them long-lasting and low-maintenance.
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Sodimate’s activated carbon injection system was approved following an inspection visit by Feljas & Masson and SOMAPEP to the company’s premises in the Ile-de-France region. The date for starting work on the Djikoroni Para drinking water project has yet to be specified.
Inès Magoum
