1. Kuwait University
Department of Industrial
and management system
Engineering
2010 Vs. 2045
Eng. Abrar Al-Jadi
Eng. Sarah Al-Sabah
Dr. Esra Al-Eisa

2. Objectives
Evaluate and analyze the current
waste water network in Kuwait.
Asses the improvements in Kuwait sanitary
Master Plan which will take place in 2045.

3. Objectives
Highlight the weaknesses in the master plan.
Provide suggestions and recommendations to the
plan to improve its efficiency.

4. Umm Al Aish
Water
Rains Resources
Rawdatain
in Kuwait
Brackish

5. Desalination
became the source of
fresh water in the Arabian Gulf countries.

6. Desalination
Not environmentally Affect coastal water Expensive
friendly quality

7. Kuwait Wastewater
Kuwait demand per capita is much higher
than in other countries in the world, estimated
to be around
(Milutinovic, Milan, M. MIT, 2006)

8. Annual
Country Renew-
Kuwait Wastewater
Bahrain
able Fresh Water (km2)b
0.1
Egypt 86.8
Iran 137.5
Iraq 96.4
The State of Kuwait has a very high
Israel 2.2
percentage of waste 0.9
Jordan production per capita, as
Kuwait 0.02
the Lebanon average municipal waste is estimated
daily 4.8
to beLibya
around 0.6
Morocco 30
(Al-Fares, Al-Jarallah et al. 2009) 1.0
Oman
Qatar 0.1
Saudi Arabia 2.4
Syria 46.1
United Arab
0.2
Emirates
Yemen 4.1 http://www.g77.org/sshlcst/TWAS.pdf

9. Impact of Treating Residential Wastewater
Authorities aimed to treat and reuse residential
wastewaters
Provide a cheaper alternative than
desalinated water.
Reduce the environmental adverse impact of
desalination plants.
Eliminate the dumping of wastewater to costal
areas or terrestrial landfills.

10. Kuwait Sanitary WWN Situation
Population rising
wastewater advanced
significantly

11. Our Goal
To this master plan, Kuwait’s wastewater network
was , focusing on the amounts of
sewage water directly into the sea, which cause
marine life and the severe environmental pollution, affecting.
seashore.
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12. Performance Measures
Amount of sewage water disposed
in the sea.

13. Performance Measures
The outflow treated water for each
treatment center.

14. Current Waste-Water Network
Umm Al-Hayman
Sulaibiya
4 Treatment
Plants
Riqqa AL-Jahra

15. Current Waste-Water Network
12 main pumping stations (A stations)
17 minor small Pumping stations (P stations)
12 screw conveyor stations (S stations)

16. Sulaibiya Network
Sulaibiya network is the largest network in
Kuwait with seven main pumping stations.

17. Current WWTP’s and A’s locations

18. Sulaibiya Network
Sulaibiya WWTP is one of
the most up to date
treatment plants in the
Middle East.
It is currently receiving
the largest amounts of
sewage water.

19. Sulaibiya Network
Sulaibiya
Sulaibiya TTP produce Reverse Osmosis (RO) water.
farms
Sulaibiya Al-Abdily
Al-Wafra.

20. Al-Jahra Network
Receives water from two opposing pumping stations;
A18 and A19.

21. Current WWTP’s and A’s locations

22. Al-Jahra Network
Al-Jahra treatment plant
distribute the treated water :

23. Al-Jahra Sludge
Al-Jahra WWTP throw away the sludge produced
in the treating process outside the plant.
This sludge should not be used as fertilizers unless
they get further processed.

24. Mishref Problem
540,000
Stopped working in August 2009. Al-Sulaibiya (2009)
490,000 Al-Sulaibiya (2010)
440,000
390,000
340,000
Pump on average 175,000 m3 of sewage per day to
Sulaibiya WWTP.
290,000
Kuwait Municipality offered to treat only 20,000 m3
of the 175,000 m3 is being treated.
240,000
Kuwait Municipality decided to stop sewage treating
190,000 leaving the sewage dumped into the sea.
Jan
Jul
Dec
Oct
Feb
Sep
Jun
Apr
Aug
May
Nov
Mar

25. Riqqa Network
Receives water from A14 and A15 in which
A14 dumps the water into A15.

26. Current Waste-Water Network

27. Ahmadi
sludge
Ardiya DMC

28. Umm Al-Hayman Network
It receives waste water from one pumping
station.
Tertiary water is produced.

29. Current Waste-Water Network

30. Umm Al-Hayman Network
Golf
Irrigation
Umm
AlHayman
Desert

31. Umm Al-Hayman 'Forest‘
Can not dispose No permission to Dispose into
into the sea insert pipelines the desert
435,000 m2

32. Methodology
1 • Modeling the current waste water network.
• Predict what going to happened in the future if the current
2 waste water net work remain the same
3 • Modeling the current network with future forecasted
values.
4 • Modeling Kuwait sanitary master plan for 2045.
• Compare and analyze the result obtained from each
5 simulation output.

33. Introducing Arena (Why Simulation?)
Simulation software was used in order to have a
visual sight on the network
Compare the current network with the sanitary
master plan

34. General Remarks
The study was made during a transition period
(October 2010 to January 2011).
The input data for the model are the data of
the year 2009 and 2010.

35. General Remarks
A distribution of the collected data was
obtained from Arena input analyzer.
These distribution are used as inputs for the
simulation model.

36. Modeling the Current Waste-Water
Network
 Using Rockwell Arena Simulation

37. Current Network at 2045
what will happen in 2045.
Inflation occurred between 2009-2011.

38. The Water Usage Distribution in Kuwait
Current Network at 2045
Al-Jahra
Current Network at 2010
Sulaibiya
Treated Treated
Al-Jahra 25%
9%
Treated
Riqqa 14% Sulaibiya
Treated
Riqqa DUMPED Treated
10%
UNTREAD 37%
Treated
54%
DUMPED
22%
Umm Al- UNTREATED
Hayman Al-
Umm 25%
Hayman
Treated
2%Treated
2%

39. Sources of Dumping
Amount dumped into the sea

40. Sources of Dumping
Amount dumped into the sea

41. The Status of the Current Network (Treatment Plants)
} Mishref is not dumping any sewage to it

42. The Status of the Current Network (Treatment Plants)

43. Description of Kuwait’s Sanitary
Master Plan
The population increasing yearly by 3.4%.
Significant environmental problems occur.
MPW is planning to expand the current wastewater
network.

44. Future Waste-Water Network
Sulaibiya Umm Al-Hayman
4 Treatment
Plants
Kabd Khiran

45. Future Waste-Water Network
425,000 m3
600,000
360,000 m3

46. Future Waste-Water Network
450,000m3
27,000m3
27,000m3

47. Future Waste-Water Network
Advantage of the Master Plan:
Reduction of pumping stations from twelve to
five decreases the complexity of the network.
All the new treatment plants are located in
non-residential areas.

48. Future Waste-Water Network
Disadvantage of the future plan:
The new network depends on a small number
of pumping stations.
The status of those pumps is very critical.
Any shutdown in one of them will have a
severe effect on the network.

49. Future Waste-Water Network
Modeling the Future Network using Rockwell Arena
(the new model)

50. The water Usage Distribution in Kuwait
Current Network at 2045
Al-Jahra Treated
9% Sulaibiya Treated
25%
DUMPED
Riqqa Treated UNTREATED
10% 54%
Umm Al-Hayman
Treated
2%

51. The Water Usage Distribution in Kuwait
sewage water dumped is reduced by almost 30% in the
future plan.
This reduction is due to the increase in capacity of the treatment
plants in Kuwait. Future Network
Kabd Treated
14%
Al-Sulaibiya
Umm Al-
Hayman Treated
Treated 35%
23% DUMPED
UNTREATED
28%

52. Current Network at 2045
Amount dumped into the sea

53. Future Waste-Water Network
Amount dumped into the sea

54. The status of the Future network
(Treatment Plants)
Al-SulaibiyakhiranisTTP’s cover the expected sewage flow-rate.
Kabd and TTP will not will be running with values way daily
This will cause around 380,0000m3 of sewage water to be less
Umm Al-Hayman reaching its designed capacity.
dumped capacity. into the sea.
than its untreated

55. Conclusion and Recommendation
The wastewater master plan 2045 will reduce the amount of
dumping into 50%.
In 2045 some WWTPs and Ps’s will no longer be able to handle
all the sewage amounts flowing into it.
It is recommended to redesign the plant’s capacity based on
the expected sewage increase.
Sulaibiya WWTP Mishref PS Egaela PS

56. Acknowledgements
•Eng. Mahmoud Khaled Karam :
•Eng. Adel Al-Saffar
•Eng. Samir Lutfi
•Dr. Masud Parkar
•Eng. Salwa Al-Saffar
•Eng. Fahad Al-Sharqawi
•Eng. Ali Yaqoub
•Eng. Abdulla Al-Bather
•Farah Al-Refai
•Saja Al-Dhubaibi
•Abdulla Jasim Alsayegh