GE's Desalination, Evaporative and Salt Purification Technology to Produce Ultra-Pure Salt for use at a Chlorine Refinery
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) is to design and construct a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant, which will provide 70,000 m3/day of fresh water. In a first for South Africa, the plant will recover ultra-pure salt from the concentrated brine stream for the production of chlorine, caustic soda, and hydrochloric acid at the refinery.