Attending a treatment plant near Oberhausen

The sewage treatment plant Bottrop, near Oberhausen, is

one of the four central sewage works on the Emscher. The
sewage treatment plant was built from 1991 to 1996 for 230
million euros on the 147,000 m site. The Mechanical cleaning
is operated by rakes, sand and grease grille. The clarifier
occupy a total area of 58,000 m. The plant is designed for
1.22 million inhabitants. The wastewater is flowing in rivers
and by underground rivers. In a digester the wastewater
sludge is converted by bacteria with absence of air. In a
process of 12-24 days at about 35 , the slurry is
decomposed. These are ideal conditions for many different
types of bacteria. These bacteria break down the organic raw
materials still contained starting and stabilizing the mud so
the mud is almost odorless and you can dehydrate and
process it. Wherein the fermentation gas is produced which is

referred to as biogas. This gas consists of 70 % of highly

combustible methane and the rest is carbon dioxide. This
digester gas has only a lowly energy content. The resulting
sewage gas in the digestion is used by the digester at 35 to
heat When Sewage sludge treatment produced biogas is used
for electricity generation drives three gas engines to almost
the entire power consumption of the wastewater treatment
plant supply. In a pilot project, the biogas to natural gas
quality is prepared to order a gas station on the premises
sent to the wastewater treatment plant so vehicles can be
supplied. The remaining gas is further processed into
hydrogen and forwarded to school Welheimer Mark and used
in a hydrogen engine.