Contract Award from United Utilities

Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies in Joint Venture with Costain Ltd are pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract by United Utilities valued at over £90 Million (€130 Million) for the Mersey Valley Processing Centre (MVPC), a major wastewater sludge incineration scheme at Shell Green in Cheshire.

MVPC is United Utilities' dewatering and incineration centre, located at Widnes in North West England, which currently de-waters digested sludge and operates two streams of incineration to burn approximately half of the sludge received at site.

The new Stage 2 Design and Build project is to replace existing plate presses and increase sludge de-watering capacity using centrifuges to 86,724 TDS maximum throughput, and to increase incineration capacity by adding a third (autothermic) stream of 45,600 TDS pa. The process has three-stage flue gas cleaning using electro-static precipitators (ESP's), two stage wet scrubbing and tertiary polishing with pre-coated PAC/Lime adsorbent bag filter prior to discharge to a new flue stack. This will ensure the facility emissions comply with the PPC permit for the plant.

Energy in the flue gases will be recovered in a waste heat boiler to generate steam and maximise electricity generation through a new steam turbine. The project also incorporates sludge blending facilities, centrate treatment plants, odour control and associated building and civil construction works.

Project completion is programmed for Spring 2010.

If you are interested in working with us to complete this contract, then please visit our careers webpage: http://www.veoliawaterst.co.uk/en/careers/