Research Facilities

Water Kuwait maintains standard research facilities for water and wastewater projects and a number of unique facilities designed and manufactured specifically for state-of-the-art studies of desalination and wastewater technologies. These facilities are located both at KISR’s headquarters and KISR’s premises at Doha and Sulaibiya. They include:

Hydrology and Water Management

• GeoProbe research vehicle for collection of soil samples up to a depth of 30 m
• Water sampling truck
• Hydro-chemical Laboratory for full analysis of water and soil, with Autoclave, Automatic BOD analyzer, Incubator, Spectrophotometer, Spectrofluorophotometer, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer, and TOC Auto Analyzer.
• Physical Modelling Laboratory for groundwater treatment technologies and physical modelling
• Soil Laboratory
• Geographical Information System unit with hydrological base for Kuwait, including groundwater models
• Numerical models

Water Technologies

Doha Research Plant (Desalination)

• Two complete Reverse Osmosis (RO) units, 600 m³/d
• Three different types of seawater feed
• Multistage Flash Distillation (MSF) - a unique corrosion test unit
• Chemical Laboratory
• Electrical, Mechanical and Instruments Workshop
• Infrastructure - R&D Halls, drainage system, electrical supply including compressed air, control panels

Sulaibiya Research Plant

• Experimental ponds
• Chemical and biological laboratories
• Raw, primary and secondary treated wastewater feeds
• Pilot units for wastewater studies