Case Study

WWTP Cogeneration Facility, City of Richmond, CA

WWTP Cogeneration Facility, City of Richmond, CA

WWTP Cogeneration Facility, City of Richmond, CA Overaa Constructors and Water Works Engineers developed a design-build proposal for the City of Richmond to install a new cogeneration facility to convert digester gas from their WWTP into electricity. The City of Richmond’s WWTP has a dry-weather capacity of 16 mgd and operates a 2.0 MG digester. Currently, all of the bio-gas produced by the digester is either burned in a boiler for sludge heating or ?ared. The intent of this project is to recover the energy in the ?ared digester gas to reduce the carbon footprint of the City. The Overaa/WWE team produced preliminary designs and ?rm design-build prices for the purchase and installation of two alternative equipment packages: 300 kW Fuel Cell unit 335 kW Internal Combustion Engine The Overaa

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