Argent Energy installs technology to capture more FOG for biodiesel feedstock

In the UK, Argent Energy’s new energy plant in Cheshire, which processes waste fats, oils and greases (FOG) for use as biodiesel, will use a WPL Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) wastewater treatment system to reclaim more of the resource. Argent Energy, which already supplies thousands of eco-buses across the UK with the biofuel, has ordered the WPL DAF system for its oil processing plant at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.

Fats, oils and grease extracted from the wastewater stream by the WPL DAF system will now be returned to the process and used to create more fuel and less waste. The plant, which is currently being built in an industrial area on the Mersey estuary, will process used, waste FOG into the raw material needed to create biodiesel. The FOG is typically sourced from the food and wastewater industries and the resulting oil can be utilised for the manufacture of biodiesel.