Sector – Food & Beverage
Specialism – Control
The North British Distillery Company Limited undertook a major sustainability project to install a state-of-the-art Anaerobic Digestion & Water Treatment plant. The project was split into three phases:
Phase1 comprised the development of a process to mix process condensate and distillery spent wash to provide a conditioned feed in terms of pH and temperature suitable for treatment in a new Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Plant.
Phase 2 was to expand the AD process and to install a water treatment plant to clean the AD effluent allowing approximately 40% of the water to be recycled with the remainder being discharged to the local sewer.
Phase 3 was to install a gas engine to produce electricity from the biogas produced by the AD reactors
Technical details underpinning the project: