Yorkshire set to deploy fertiliser-from-wastewater process in "world first"

TECHNOLOGY UPDATE

Yorkshire Water has unveiled plans to deploy a process that uses carbon dioxide to convert ammonia and phosphorus in wastewater into fertiliser in what it claimed is a world first for wastewater treatment.

Yorkshire Water and CCm Technologies have formed a partnership to install the technology in one of the water firm’s wastewater treatment works where it is expected to begin operating later in the year.

The approach, according to Yorkshire Water, will cut its greenhouse gas emissions and reduce treatment costs. Co-founder and chief technology officer at Ccm, Professor Peter Hammond, said the technology “can lock captured carbon back into the soil, allowing the water industry to play a role at the heart of carbon reduction.”