Integrated Waste Management Site Part of Huge Singapore Water Project

An integrated waste management facility is to be constructed at the Tuas Water Reclamation Plant in Singapore as part of Phase 2 of the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS). A joint venture between Black & Veatch (B&V) and AECOM (NYSE: ACM) has been selected by PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, to provide engineering services for Phase 2 the DTSS project. According to B&V, the project will freeing up land for other higher-value developments, supporting the production of NEWater, improve energy efficiencies and potentially leveraging the water-energy-waste nexus. NEWater is a high-grade reclaimed water produced from treated used water that is purified further using advanced membrane technologies. DTSS Phase 2 will extend the original DTSS project to the western side of Singapore through a 30 km long South Tunnel, 70 km of link sewers, the Tuas Water Reclamation Plant (WRP) and a 12 km deep sea outfall. In addition, working with Singapore’s National Environment Agency, an Integrated Waste Management Facility will be co-located at the Tuas WRP site. B&V explained that this offers potential opportunities to integrate used-water and solid-waste treatments to maximise energy and resource recovery. For more on the story don’t miss the Desalinate Newscast from WMW’s sister publication, Waterworld. Read More Severn Trent Building 2.4 MW Food Waste AD Plant at Sewage Works in Warwickshire Severn Trent Water is investing £13 million in a new anaerobic digestion plant that will produce biogas from food waste at its Coleshill Sewage Treatment Works in Warwickshire. Enerkem’s 38m Litre Waste to Biofuel Facility Inaugurated in Alberta, Canada Canadian biofuels firm, Enerkem has officially inaugurated its first full-scale municipal waste to biofuels and chemicals facility in Edmonton, Alberta. Go-Ahead to Use Heat from SITA Waste to Energy Plant to Grow Tomatoes in Suffolk SITA UK and Sterling Suffolk have been given the go-ahead for a greenhouse project that will utilize heat from the Great Blakenham waste to energy plant to grow tomatoes.