Water and wastewater treatment provider Envirogen has been awarded a £1 million contract to demineralise water through their Eco MultiPro boilers at the new South Clyde Energy Centre (SCEC) in Glasgow. 

Jointly owned by Fortum and Gren Energy, the South Clyde Energy Centre in Glasgow is set to generate energy from non-hazardous domestic and commercial waste left over from the recycling process. It is estimated that the EfW facility will prevent 350,000 tonnes of household waste from going to landfill each year.

Head of Fortum, Ilkka Toijala said Envirogen was chosen for the contract due to the company’s “long and proven track record in industrial water treatment” in EfW plants across the UK. 

Envirogen’s Head of Sales, Simon Radford explained that the company has worked closely with the Glasgow plant designer - engineering and design provider AFRY - to develop a solution that matched the sustainability needs of the plant. He added: “The robust, reliable design focuses on whole life operating costs for both utility and maintenance over a 30-year design life.”

Envirogen will provide the facility with two of its compact Eco MultiPro units, supplying the ultrapure water quality needed to generate 45 megawatts of electric (Mwe) of lower carbon electricity from residual waste. 

The units are set to be delivered by summer next year and commissioned by January 2026. The commercial operations of the site will begin by the end of 2026.