Singer Valve Works With Larson Toubro To Install 12 Altitude Valves To Control Water Flow From Pipelines To Large Reservoirs

By Ramzi Soujah, managing director, Singer Valve

Salalah is a coastal city in Oman, about 1,500 km South of Dubai. Although they have an average population of 200,000, tourists flock to this beautiful city for the temperate summer climate. The city gets its water from a desalination plant that has the capacity to process 30 million gallons a day. This water then goes through a 105 km transmission line with DN 1200, DN 700 and DN 600 mm DI pipes into respective reservoirs that supply water to the residents as needed.

As the city and neighborhoods are expanding additional transmission pipelines and booster station was needed to be able to efficiently fill reservoirs for a combined holding of 180,000 cum. Initially they were looking at installing float control valves on the reservoirs to control the water level, but the application was more suited for Altitude Valves. Float valves in these large sizes would have been too slow and had a sluggish response.