New treatment for Argent Energy plant
3 May 2016
A Cheshire-based energy plant built to process waste fats, oils and greases (FOG) for biodiesel, is set to implement a Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) wastewater treatment system to reclaim more of the resource.
Argent Energy, which supplies biofuel to eco-buses across the UK, has ordered the system from treatment solution supplier WPL, for use in its oil processing plant at Ellesmere Port.
Fats, oils and grease extracted from the wastewater stream by the system will now be returned to the process and used to create more fuel and less waste, WPL said.
The plant will process waste FOG from the food and wastewater industries into the raw material needed to create biodiesel.
“The WPL DAF system will become an integrated part of this brand new biofuel processing plant which is being built on a brownfield site,” said Andrew Haywood, utility and industrial sales manager at WPL.
The DAF system was delivered in February and mechanically and electrically installed in April.
