BioEnergy and bulk materials handling specialist Saxlund International has won two UK water industry contracts to provide sludge cake loading and storage handling solutions for waste water treatment works in Norwich and Wigan.
With a total contract value of over £3/4 million, the projects include the design and construction of flat bottomed silos with Saxlund industry-leading sliding frame technology to discharge material via screws or sludge pumps, together with integrated control systems.
In a project for the KMI Plus alliance on behalf of United Utilities, Saxlund will deliver a 454m3 sludge cake storage and process feed silo, supplying an on-site Thermal Hydrolysis system at Leigh Wastewater Treatment Works in Wigan. The work is part of £30 million investment to facilitate smoother and more efficient waste water processing at Leigh and follows a previous project for United Utilities and KMI Plus at Fleetwood WwTW.
A second project includes a truck reception and sludge cake silo for Anglian Water at their Whitlingham Water Recycling Centre in Norwich. This also incorporates Saxlund’s sliding frame technology and sludge is discharged via integrated sludge pumps into a process feed silo and into a Thermal Hydrolysis process.
“We are seeing strong demand for proven sludge cake handling and storage systems across the water industry as companies develop Advanced Digestion schemes to improve processing efficiency. Our industry-leading flat bottom silo technology, tried and tested in hundreds of installations and specifically designed for storing and discharging non free-flowing, difficult to handle, material,has been key to securing a number of new water industry projects during 2014”, said Matt Drew, Managing Director, Saxlund International,
Saxlund, part of the Opcon energy and environmental group, completed a series of projects for Anglian Water in 2013. The market-leading company in solutions for handling difficult bulk solids is seeing growth across a number of its core operating markets, including water.
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