Anaerobic digester fuels kids' home

摘要

Plastic piping donated by Polypipe has been installed in a waste treatment and energy conversion project at Namisu Children's Village, in Malawi, which was founded in 1999 by Aquaid Lifeline, a charity based in the United Kingdom. Home to 115 orphans and staff, and with its own school attended by more than 300 other local children, the haven needed a solution to safely dispose of human waste. In the purpose-built latrine block, waste is carried away from the toilets through Effast PVCu pipes from Polypipe before entering the Flexigester Integrated Faecal Treatment system. Capable of anaerobic digestion to convert waste into biogas which it then stores until needed, the system can also be used to pasteurise liquid by-products and deactivating many of the potentially harmful pathogens that may be found in the waste.