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CASE STUDY

AYLA OASIS
RESORT
DISTRICT ENERGY PLANT · AQABA
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01 ABOUT AYLA

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ABOUT AYLA

The AYLA OASIS Resort Project Aqaba is a building project based on luxury
facilities set around a new man-made lagoon in the Gulf of Aqaba, Kingdom
of Jordan. Luxurious residences, hotels and parks will be constructed around a
man-made sea water lagoon. Utility to be provided to this new development
are cold water and hot water, which will be generated at a high efficiency,
environmental friendly central cooling and heating plant and then distributed
to several locations at Ayla Oasis development, through a complete
underground piping network.
The development is expected to accelerate the city’s economic growth,
attracting both local and foreign investments. The all-encompassing community
stretches across 17 kilometers of newly created waterfront, stemming from 235
meters of seafront. When complete, the development will cover 4,300,000 m²
of residential and commercial space.

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02 WHAT DID ARAMCO NEED? 02 WHAT DID AYLA NEEED?

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WHAT DID AYLA NEED?

The requirements for Ayla Marine Village District Energy Plant were defined after
a consultancy process and after performing a yearly simulation of the cooling
and heating demands. Three 2,000 Ton centrifugal refrigeration chillers in 2+1
configuration shall be provided in order to supply chilled water to the Energy
Transfer Stations. Chilled water supply temperature will be 6 ºC while return
temperature will be 13 ºC.

Chillers condensation system will use sea water, already in movement in the
lagoon, for its regeneration. Sea water system shall be treated in order to avoid
biofouling and marine growth.

Due to high consumption of domestic hot water by the Hyatt Regency Hotel,
even in summer periods, an additional Heat Pump, based on screw compressor,
shall be provided in order to improve the efficiency of the system. Heat pump
will produce at the chilled water and hot water simultaneously.

The Ayla Marine Village the District Energy Plant should be as much autonomous
as possible, for that ARANER designed an almost maintenance free plant without
compromising the reliability and robustness of the District Energy Plant.

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03 ARANER SOLUTION

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ARANER SOLUTION

The original solution considered in the early stages was a district cooling plant
with standard centrifugal chillers. The solution involved the installation of a
secondary heat rejection system composed by an additional pumping group
and the titanium heat exchanger.
The disadvantages with this solution were:
• Higher power consumption for the Chillers as the intermediate circuit
temperature approach
This innovative solutions had never been implemented before in the area
being ARANER a pioneer in this field. The direct condensation system avoids
the installation of the secondary circuit including all the benefits stated before.
The development of the new solution was possible due the large expertise of
ARANER in the direct condensation technology and a huge investment in a
R&D project evolving several international organizations.

• Higher power consumption for the water secondary circuit between

sea water and condenser

• Larger footprint

• Higher initial cost because of the higher number of equipment involved

In collaboration with Ayla Oasis Development, ARANER proposed a direct

condensation solution based on sea water cooled centrifugal chillers. With the
optimized solution, not only the energy consumption is reduced but also the
maintenance requirements reducing the O&M cost with huge yearly savings.

As the system complexity is reduced, there were also important saving in the
capital cost. Due to those important reductions in CAPEX and OPEX ARANER’s
solution was selected as the top wining and most feasible option.

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04 PROJECT EXECUTION

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PROJECT EXECUTION

> CHILLER OPTIMIZATION

ARANER developed a new product line including the Centrifugal Chillers
prepared for Direct Condensation scenarios. The model proposed for Ayla
Project is a unique and tailor made solution.

> SEA WATER TREATMENT OPTIMIZATION

But the optimized chillers with direct condensation is not the only improvement
proposed by ARANER. The sea water treatment system is also a key point of
the advance design. The selected filters are self-cleaning and the advanced
electrochlorination system does not require chemical additives so the
maintenance operations are very much simplified:

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04 PROJECT EXECUTION

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PROJECT EXECUTION

> SEA WATER TREATMENT OPTIMIZATION SEA WATER TREATMENT PACKAGE

SEA WATER PRIMARY FILTRATION
Composed by Intake Self Cleaning. These equipment are totally autonomous and the
maintenance requirement is almost despicable compare to standard solutions. The
construction materials have been carefully selected for Sea Water application.
SEA WATER SECONDARY FILTRATION
A Sea Water free chemicals treatment plant has been included in the DC Plant. Based
on Electrochlorination technology there is no chemical consumption and it is ensured
that the proper biofouling treatment is applied. The electrolyser technology is based
on cylindrical design, the water velocity inside the cell is high enough to carry over all
the salts deposits from the electrochlorination process reducing the maintenance and
operational costs.

In order to protect downstream equipment, the secondary filtration is composed by

maintenance free vortex separators, which separates the solids in the water by the
cyclone phenomena.

SEA WATER THIRD FILTRATION

Following the philosophy of maintenance free equipment it has been engineered the
last filtration system. The filter is capable of performing an automatic backwash when
it detects the requirement to be cleaned.

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04 PROJECT EXECUTION

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PROJECT EXECUTION

FULL INTEGRATED CONTROL SYSTEM QUALITY ASSURANCE

The Main Control System is composed by a redundant PLC, which is
communicating with all the equipment of the DC Plant including the Energy
Transfer Stations, Chillers, Heat Pumps and Electrochlorination Package. It
also includes a User Friendly Human Machine Interface specially designed for
Ayla Project, which contains the following features: data trending, abnormal
condition auto-detection algorithm, monitoring and energy consumption
forecast among others.
• Each independent equipment has its own Inspection and Test Plan
which is firmly followed during the course of the project to ensure the
Quality of the DE Plant
• Witness the Factory Acceptance Test for all the main equipment,
including the electrical panels (MV and LV), MV Soft-Starter, Pumps,
Chillers and Main Control Panels among others

COMMISSIONING AND PLANT INTEGRATION

Once all the equipment is installed, the plant integration is performed to set all
the operating parameters and integrate the production to the consumption
from the Energy Transfer Stations

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05 ARANER SOLUTION

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ARANER SOLUTION

ORIGINAL SOLUTION ARANER SOLUTION

Secondary pump circuit for condensation Direct sea water condensation

3 sea water pump with total consumption of 640 kW 3 sea water pump with total consumption of 550 kW

3 condenser water pumps with total consumption of 540 kW No condenser water pumps, reducing the electrical consumption

Intermediate plate heat exchanger No intermediate heat exchangers

Large footprint Used spaced reduce in 200 m2

Engineered centrifugal chillers to be able to work with direct sea

Standard water cooled centrifugal chillers
water condensation

Chiller rated efficiency @ full load: 0.532 kW/TR Chiller rated efficiency @ full load: 0.5 kW/TR

Standard Filtration System 3 Step filtration system fully automated

Water treatment system based on Electrochlorination self-cleaning

Water treatment system based on standard chemical injection
cylindrical cells

Gas boiler COP=0.8 Heat pump efficiency COP = 3.5

Chemical consumption for the sea water treatment No chemical consumption for the sea water treatment

Standard Control System Full integrated redundant Control System

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05 ARANER SOLUTION

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ARANER SOLUTION

23% SAVINGS IN
ELECTRICAL CONSUMPTION!!

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