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Stoke Bardolph Energy Crop Plant wins national industry award!

25. Oct. 2011
Engineers at Severn Trent plc are celebrating after winning a national industry award for the innovative design of the UK’s first commercial scale dedicated crop digestion plant.
The Stoke Bardolph (Nottingham) Energy Crop Anaerobic Digestion Plant (built by Schmack Biogas GmbH) was awarded the Edmund Hambly Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) at a ceremony at ICE’s Westminster headquarters yesterday (24 October).

The award is given in memory of the late Edmund Hambly, former President of the Institution and celebrates the design of an engineering project that makes a substantial contribution to sustainable development.
The plant at Stoke Bardolph, near Burton Joyce, produces more than 15Gwh of electricity each year to help power Nottingham’s main sewage treatment works, the equivalent to supplying around 4,500 residential properties.

The project, which cost £15 million, uses 37,000 tonnes of crop silage grown on Severn Trent’s own farmland. The farmland is contaminated due to historical waste recycling activities dating back from the 1880’s and this has rendered it unsuitable for food crop production but highly fertile for growing energy crops. Each day 100 tonnes of maize is fed in to the plant and over 90 days the organic matter is broken down giving off methane.

The biogas is fed into a combined heat and power plan to produce electricity, saving the equivalent of 7,400 tonnes of carbon each year.

The plant began full production in October 2010, two months ahead of schedule, and has continued to operate reliably ever since. 


http://www.ice.org.uk/News-Public-Affairs/ICE-News/Stoke-Bardolph-Energy-Crop-Plant-wins-national-ind

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