Chile Power Provider Chooses RO System

Empresa Nacional de Energia S.A., Chile's largest electricity producer, has selected a reverse osmosis (RO) system from Severn Trent Services of Fort Washington, Pa., for use at a new thermal power plant in San Isidro, Chile.

The system, a three-module UAT™ RO filtration system combined with deionization and carbonate systems, is used to filter process water at the plant and has a filtration capacity of 1,290,000 gallons per day.

The new plant is in its start-up phase.

Severn Trent Services was represented in the sale by Pro Equipos Ltda., based in Santiago, Chile.