UAE Group to Build Giant Solar SWRO Plant in Chile
Published by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
UAE-based Almar Water Solutions, a specialist in the design, financing, operation and maintenance of water infrastructure, has joined hands with Chile-based Trends group of companies to develop one of the world's largest solar powered SWRO project in the Atacama region of the South American country.
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The project called 'Enapac' (abbreviaton for the spanish name "Energías y Aguas del Pacífico") will be the first multiclient desalination plant in Chile besides being the largest in Latin America and the first large scale plant powered with photovoltaic energy and one of the most advanced projects in the world, combining reverse osmosis desalination with solar energy.
Enapac consists of a seawater desalination project for Atacama that will be supplied with it's own source of photovoltaic energy.
With an estimated initial investment of $500 million Enapac will become the largest desalination plant in Chile and Latin America, with its maximum capacity of 2.600 l/s, stated Trend Industrial's CEO Rodrigo Silva after singing the deal with Almar Water Solutions CEO Carlos Cosín.
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Category: Business
- Drinking Water Security
- Drinking Water Treatment
- Filtration
- Desalination
- Solar Desalination
- Sea Water Desalinisation
- Sustainable Desalination
- Desalination Pre-treatment
- Drinking Water
- Utility Management
- Utility Pipe Network
- Desalination Plant
- Desalination
1 Comment
Dear UAE Almar Water Solutions,
Reverse Osmosis is an inappropriate process for desalination as it includes expensive high pressure pumps, expensive membranes, elaborate pre-treatment, expensive operational and maintenance costs. Most of this whole world is getting its potable water from nature Room Temperature Evaporation: a very simple process which needs only a tower water cooler and a condenser. A very simple process, obvious, right in front of every eye, needed equipment are far less expensive, low operational and maintenance costs. Our website www.naturalseawaterdesalination.com can provide with more information if needed.
Published by Maher Louis, PE, PEng., Senior Process Engineer at Clairmonte Processes