Knostrop Energy and Recycling Facility

 sewage treatment plant, bioenergy plant

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Also called Knostrop Anaerobic Digestion Facility and Knostrop Sludge Treatment Facility (STF). Managed by Yorkshire Water company. Built from autumn 2016 to May 2019 on a part of the decommissioned territory of the wastewater treatment plant to replace an ageing sludge incinerator. The plant can process up to 131 tonnes of dry sludge a day and 48,000 tonnes per year utilises conventional mesophilic AD technology, recycling 94% of the sewage sludge in Leeds to produce up to 94MWh electricity a day in two combined-heat-and-power generators, enough to meet 55% of the site’s power needs. The digested sludge is then dewatered and mixed with lime before being sold as agricultural fertilizer. А stand-alone liquor treatment plant (LTP) was also built here to treat the concentrated ammonia liquors to reduce the loads returning to the WwTW due consequence of AD biogas production.
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The new plant is the latest step in the Yorkshire Water company’s ambition to be carbon neutral by 2030, also this scheme is helping to create a lower carbon future in the Lower Aire Valley.

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