FOAMGLAS ® insulation helps make turkey waste green

Ecological and long-lasting FOAMGLAS® cellular-glass insulation was chosen to insulate the underground reaction vessel of Bernard Matthew’s £4m renewable energy scheme.

The project will remove 1,200 liquid-waste lorries from Suffolk’s roads each year and provide both green energy and fertiliser by processing poultry waste.

28,000Te of liquid poultry waste, mainly fats, will pass through an anaerobic digester every year to produce 500kW of electricity. The project is being developed in conjunction with Xergi, Glendale Power and H2OK.

The potentially-harmful spent waste from the process will be made safe in a 30m³ buried concrete tank maintained at 80C where approximately 1,000Te of ammonium sulphate will be produced per year to be sold as fertiliser.

H2OK’s requirement was for a high-load bearing, 100% closed cell, ecological insulation which could cope with the high temperatures and wet ground conditions. H2OK chose Pittsburgh Corning’s FOAMGLAS® S3^TM cellular-glass insulation.

FOAMGLAS® S3^TM insulation can carry a load of 90Te/m² and is able to carry the weight of the tank and the backfill insulation. It is made from 2/3 recycled glass and is uniquely impermeable to moisture, meaning that its insulating properties are constant over time so maximising the ecological benefits.

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