On the evening of March 8, the real-time images that the water flow smoothly out of the sampling valve sent back from the Dignin Project in Philippines, which gave the technicians of HWTT on the other end of the video a long sigh of relief. It was the first time that HWTT achieved successful operation of the project through online remote guidance without the presence of technical personnel on site.
The seawater desalination project belongs to the Dignin 2×660MW coal-fired power plant, which is also the first supercritical power plant project developed, constructed and operated in the Philippines. HWTT provided the seawater desalination system for the project, including the design, procurement, supply and service of the seawater system and desalinated water system . The project scale reaching 15,000 tons per day. Since the signing of the project in 2017, the project manager, design and engineering and technical personnel have strictly complied with the American standards required by the project, scientifically arranging the management progress, and overcoming difficulties in material procurement and equipment export declarations to ensure that the water production can be completed on time to help the power plant put into operation as soon as possible. 2020 Spring Festival is a critical period for project commissioning, but the outbreak of the epidemic caused the suspension of Chinese visa processing in the Philippines and the inability of HWTT technicians to go to the site. Thus, project debugging was facing difficulties, especially the commissioning of medium voltage inverters , which even fell into a state of stagnation.
The project is obstructed by the epidemic but cannot be delayed. Under such a dilemma, Hangshui people exert their subjective initiative to overcome the difficulties. On the one hand, the commissioning staff of the general contractor was instructed remotely in real-time to conduct on-site operations. On the other hand, HWTT communicated with the medium voltage inverter manufacturer many times, and the manufacturer finally agreed to dispatch engineers from Indonesia to debug the inverter on site. Due to the inability to go to the site to guide the installation and commissioning, unexpected changes may occur during the commissioning and cannot be resolved in time. As a result, the technicians of HWTT were breathless with anxiety during the remote connection process. The project successfully got out of the water means that the debugging has achieved a phased victory, which is also a successful practice of the cloud mode in the extraordinary period. On March 11, the general contractor of the project sent a letter of appreciation to praise the project team of HWTT.
Under the diplomatic initiative of “the Belt and Road Initiatives”,HWTT has established desalination systems for many countries and regions, and the Philippines desalination project is one of them. The epidemic has temporarily affected everyone’s work and life, but HWTT will never stop "developing water technology to benefit the whole society". In the days to come, we are confident to provide more domestic and foreign customers with professional and competitive solutions.
