Sewage Sludge Incinerator, St Petersburg, Russia

Our involvement in the project:

Project Management
Unit Supervisor

On 26 October 2007, Russia’s second largest city St. Petersburg inaugurated the Sewage Sludge Incinerator at the South West Wastewater Treatment Plant. The construction of the incinerator was financed by a number of international financial institutions, including the EU.
The incinerator helps to solve the problem of disposing wastewater sludge to the city’s landfill, as the amount of sludge exceeds the landfill’s capacity. The new incinerator has the capacity to reduce the annual 250,000 cubic metres of sludge into 12,000 cubic metres of ash. The Ash from the incineration can be recycled as construction material the incinerator also helps to decrease the environmental risks of transporting wastewater sludge through residential areas. Both the incinerator and the wastewater treatment plant are operated by the municipal water utility company Vodokanal St. Petersburg.