Food market in Manchester itself will provide itself with energy

Next fall, the largest in the British city of Manchester wholesale food market new Smithfield to be one of the most innovative trading platforms of this type in the world. There are plans to install a biogas plant, the raw material for which will be used with waste, this market generated.



According to management, market information, the average amount of waste produced by marketplace every year, is 370 tons. They, by calculations of experts of company OakTech Environmental (she was involved as the executor of the project), will be enough to set the plant with a capacity of 500 kilowatts.

This power is enough to operate all the lighting and refrigeration equipment market, and the possible surplus of produced energy is planned to give to the centralized power grid of the city.

It is also noteworthy that even not running this biogas plant, the initiators of the project already seriously working on the development of the project increase the capacity up to 1 megawatt. This figure will provide even heating and all retail and warehouse space, and the remaining volumes of organic wastes are planned to be attracted from the nearby establishments and of number of manufacturers various kinds of foods.

Guide market new Smithfield expects that through the project a biogas plant will be able to resolve a number of important issues. First, a significant reduction in the cost of electricity will result in lower rental rates for sellers and, accordingly, will provide substantial support to the agricultural sector of the region.

Second, will be fully resolved the problem of organic waste, which is hitherto nothing but the headache of management of the market, did not cause.

Source: zeleneet.com