Page 52: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (July 15, 1969)

World's Largest Multi-Stage Flash-Type Desalting Plant Aqua-Chem Engineer Describes Combination Water/Power Plant To San Diego Section, SNAME Armando B. Steinbruchel* View of the desalting plant at the Rosarito, B.C., Mexico, installed by Aqua-Chem. The Comision Federal de Elec-tricidad (CFE) of the Mexican government which is responsible for the organization of all power generation facilities in Mexico, in-stituted a study several years ago which indicated that the best pos-sible solution to the water needs of Tijuana would be a seawater dis-tillation unit combined with the ex-isting CFE powerplant at Rosarito, B.C. The desalting plant is now completed and is on stream. With the world's largest multi-stage flash-type desalting plant in-stalled, Mexico becomes a leader in the application of water desalt-ing technology connected to power generation. This combination wa-ter/power plant produces fresh wa-ter from the sea at the lowest overall water cost, as compared with similar installations around the world. With the 7.5-million-gallon per clay (mgpd) Tijuana seawater de-salting plant by Aqua-Chem, power engineers and desalting engineers have a classic opportunity to study a combination water/power plant. The present generating facility consists of three 75-mw turbines, and the government is now adding a fourth unit, making the Rosarito installation of 300,000-kw capacity and the 7.5-mgp