INEVA
Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality ISU General Directorate introduced the 166 thousand m3/day capacity Başiskele Kullar Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatment Plant, which was built to treat the wastewater of Kartepe, Başiskele and İzmit districts by adding a new one to its advanced biological treatment plants, to the public with a ceremony.
Following the ceremony, Ibrahim Karaosmanoğlu, President of the Union of Turkish World Municipalities and Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality, İlhan Bayram, Secretary General of Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality, Ali Sağlık, General Manager of Kocaeli Water and Sewerage Administration, Sinan Sokur, Deputy General Manager in charge of Water and Canal Services of Kocaeli Water and Sewerage Administration, and senior officials visited the facility to generate electrical energy from the treatment sludge that INEVA has successfully completed the installation and trial works within the Kullar Wastewater Treatment Plant.
When the plant, which will generate electricity from the sludge from the 'Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatment Plant' in Başiskele Kullar operated by Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality Izmit Water Works (ISU), comes into operation, an average of 95 tons of sludge per day will be thermally treated. With the turbines added to the facility, 960 kW of electricity will be generated per hour within the scope of renewable energy from steam energy.
Speaking during the visit to the facility, İNEVA Çevre Teknolojileri A.Ş. General Manager Volkan Akıncı said, “The treatment sludge from ISU's Gebze and Başiskele (Kullar) plants were burned in cement factories in the current system. This was burdening ISU with approximately 10 million liras per year and was not sustainable. Thanks to the facilities that we have successfully completed the installation and trial works, ISU will dispose of the sludge by incineration without the need for drying, while at the same time generating electrical energy.”
Founded in 2004, İNEVA not only contributes to the national economy by eliminating foreign dependency, but also disposes of sewage sludge and wastes with high moisture content without the need for drying with its unique technology. INEVA, which has disposed of 360 thousand tons of sludge in total since the first plant was established, continues to establish clean energy generating facilities for the private and public sectors.
Stating that they signed a contract last week for 2 new facilities that are planned to be completed this year, Akıncı emphasized that they will continue to produce innovative solutions to the environmental problem created by treatment sludge by continuing to expand the use of their high technologies without slowing down.
