With the European Biosolids and Bioresources Conference underway, ELIQUO HYDROK is proud to demonstrate how its innovative sludge technologies help water companies meet AMP8 priorities.

As a principal sponsor of this year’s event, we’re showcasing how our innovations help tackle greenhouse gas emissions, transport costs and compliance risks all whilst enabling resource recovery.

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ELOVAC® our vacuum degassing system removes dissolved methane from digested sludge, improves dewatering efficiency, reduces chemical usage, reduces phosphate concentrations, prevents struvite scaling and contributes directly to carbon reduction targets.

This technology has been proven at full-scale installations globally. ELOVAC® provides practical solutions for AMP8 objectives: carbon reduction, cost savings and resource recovery.

How can ELOVAC® benefit my site?

As part of our sludge treatment portfolio, we also offer the ELODRY®, a low temperature stainless steel belt dryer manufactured in Germany and designed specifically for sewage sludge. Its modular compact and designed for sewage sludge drying with minimal CO2 emissions. The ELODRY delivers up to 80% mass reduction, reduces transport costs and can be combined with carbonisation processes to produce phosphorus rich bio fertiliser.

 

 

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ELOVAC: What is it?

ELOVAC^® is a vacuum degassing skid-unit designed to remove dissolved methane and CO₂ from digested sludge.

Key Benefits

• Methane Capture: Extracts dissolved methane reducing potent greenhouse gas emissions.
• Phosphate control: Enables controlled precipitation which helps prevent struvite scaling
• Improved dewatering: Degassed sludge dewaters better, reducing polymer consumption and disposal costs.
• Compact, modular design: Demo units allow on site trials with minimal disruption.

Relevance for AMP8

• Greenhouse gas reduction is a major lever in AMP8 business cases through the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) and companies individual Net Zero targets, ELOVAC^® provides a direct way to diminish methane emissions from sludge.
• By improving dewatering, lowering chemical demand and reducing struvite scaling ELOVAC^® lowers OPEX and reduces risk in sludge lines.
• The modular nature of the system supports flexible deployment (pilots -to-full-scale) as part of a passed AMP8 strategy.

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ELODRY® Low temperature belt dryer

What is it?

ELODRY® is a low temperature, stainless-steel belt dryer manufactured in Germany, designed specifically for sewage sludge.

Key benefits

• Mass reduction: Removes up to 80% of water from sludge dramatically reducing transport and disposal costs.
• Energy efficiency: Uses heat recovery so that exhaust air preheats incoming air. Specific heat demand is ~ 750kWHth per tonne of evaporated water, electrical demand is under 50 kWh l/t
• Safety and modular design: Operates under slight vacuum to prevent odours, with temperature and particle sensors plus a built-in sprinkler system for safety.
• Decentralised deployment: Thanks to its modular footprint ELODRY® can be installed on sites with low civil works.

Relevance for AMP8

• AMP is expected to put in creased focus on carbon reduction, transport emissions and sludge valorisation.
• ELODRY® supports these goals by reducing sludge mass, facilitating on-site or local drying and enabling potential recovery routes.
• ELODRY® can be paired with ATC technologies such as pyrolysis.
• For water companies targeting tighter operational expenditure and carbon targets, ELODRY® provides a proven scalable solution.

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