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Reverse osmosis is one of the processes that makes desalination (or removing salt from seawater) possible. Beyond that, reverse osmosis is used for recycling, wastewater treatment, and can even produce energy.
A reverse osmosis plant is a manufacturing plant where the process of reverse osmosis takes place. An average modern reverse osmosis plant needs six kilowatt-hours of electricity to desalinate one cubic metre of water.The process also results in an amount of salty briny waste.nder construction. 1  In China a desalination plant will be built for Tianjin, to produce 100,000 cubic metres of desalinated seawater a day. [ 2 4] [5]. 3  In Spain 20 reverse osmosis plants will be built along the Costas, expecting to meet slightly over 1% of Spain's total water needs.