Wissington Bioenergy

The Opportunity

As part of British Sugar’s drive towards a lower Carbon power and steam generation future, they decided to use a by-product of sugar production to produce gas by anaerobic digestion at their largest factory in Norfolk. The project design brief was to work with British sugar engineers to produce a design and detailed drawings of a materials handling system to transport used Beat to a digester some 800m from source routing through the factory site.

Power System Services were awarded the contract by British Sugar to pool together specialist design teams to produce a cost effective solution that could be adopted by the client and ultimately constructed. The project included. Structural design and detailing of gantries and walkways, Design of chutes and hoppers, mechanical design and specification of conveyors and mechanical handling equipment, Design of a bespoke tubular bridge to eliminate the chance of product falling into a river.