Indian Ocean Tuna Ltd., a Thai Union-owned tuna exporter, has completed construction of a new wastewater treatment addition to its Seychelles manufacturing plant.
Global Water and Energy (GWE) installed the wastewater processing facility, which includes aerobic and anaerobic digestion plants, at its seafood processing operation in Victoria, the capital of the Seychelles.
The new GWE plant will remove an estimated 95 percent of organic contaminants from the average of 2,000 cubic meters per day of wastewater the processing plant produces from its operations, GWE said in a press release.
“With world seafood production now topping 170 million tons – both from fisheries and aquaculture – there is obviously great scope globally for GWE technologies such those adopted by Indian Ocean Tuna to deliver a more sustainable environmental outcome. This plant sets global benchmarks for environmental outcomes and commercial sustainability,” GWE said.
Included in the installation is GWE’s Anamix anaerobic waste digester, which is capable of producing biogas. By extracting biogas (primarily methane) from the organic waste removed, the fish processing plant can save more than 2,000 kilograms per day of fuel oil, worth about USD 1,000 (EUR 860), saving the company money and decreasing its fossil fuel dependency.
“Biogas-producing green energy plants such as this can help pay for themselves. So there is a strong business profitability case to support companies wishing to act in an environmentally responsible manner,” GWE said in its release
GWE, which recently rebranded from Global Water Engineering to Global Water and Energy, has more than 400 high-efficiency wastewater treatment projects in 64 countries. Its trademarked Anamix process has been used in numerous food processing plants to convert organic contamination in sludge and wastewater into biogas, which can be turned into methane and later utilized for energy production and used as fuel for electric power generators or to replace fossil fuels in steam boilers and heaters on the production site.
Photo courtesy of Global Water and Energy
