Pilot plant for Anaerobic Digester - BIOGAS plant

Pilot Anaerobic Digester Plant Installed.

This is a novel plant for Hazardous liquid waste treatment plants which we have commissioned at a cost of £20,000.

The idea of the plant is to add a 3rd treatment plant for waste water to increase the COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) reduction in the waters we handle from the current 70% reduction (we review this annually click here for the review) to over 95%.

We will further generate methane in this plant and intend to then take the methane in the form of Biogas to engines as part of a CHP (combined, heat and power) to generate around 600 Kw of electricity (twice our own demand) and to further supply the steam requirements on site (around 9,000,000 kwH per annum).

The pilot plant will run for around 4 months - it is designed to treat 35 litres an hour - the full plant will have to treat around 10,000 litres an hour and will be somewhat larger...

June 2004

2006 Update

Phase 2 of this trial starts in 2006