- The anaerobic digestion facility (AD) can treat up to 50,000 tonnes of unavoidable food waste.
- Upon commissioning next year, the AD facility would produce enough energy to power almost 7,000 homes yearly.
Severn Trent Green Power’s anaerobic digestion facility in Derby, United Kingdom, is ready to receive food waste again following a refurbishment programme. The site in Megaloughton Lane now incorporates a front-end treatment process and additional digestion capacity by constructing two additional digester tanks. After a 12-month renovation, the site, which can treat up to 50,000 tonnes of unavoidable food waste, has commenced its performance testing and commissioning phase.
According to the American Biogas Council, anaerobic digestion is a series of biological processes in which microorganisms break down biodegradable material without oxygen. One of the end products is biogas, which is combusted to generate electricity and heat or processed into renewable natural gas and transportation fuels.
Upon commissioning next year, the AD facility would produce enough energy to power almost 7,000 homes yearly and produce valuable organic fertiliser for local agricultural outlets. The works were delivered in partnership between Severn Trent Green Power’s (STGP) in-house engineering team and Agrivert Ltd., acting as the leading CDM Contractor for the project.
Christer Stoyell, managing director of STGP, said, “We’re delighted to be relaunching our Derby AD site following extensive upgrades over the last 12 months. We’ve invested heavily in the site and look forward to it becoming a flagship facility for collecting and processing food waste from across the Midlands. We believe the site is a major asset to the community in Derby, helping to turn food waste into renewable energy to power UK homes and businesses and produce a nutrient-rich liquid bio-fertiliser for farmland. The completion of the Derby project alongside our recent acquisition of Andigestion Ltd cements Green Power as the largest producer of renewable energy from food waste in the UK across our portfolio of 11 AD facilities.”