Seventy percent of Baltalimanı Biological Wastewater Treatment Plant’s construction has been completed. The plant is still under construction.
Raif Mermutlu, General Manager at Istanbul Water and Sewage Administration (ISKI);
“The solid content will be extracted with pretreatment. In this way, impacts on the environment will be reduced. The wastewater of Beyoglu, Sisli and Besiktas municipalities and a part of Kagithane, Eyup and Sariyer municipalities’ wastewater flow to this area. The efforts towards including a biological unit in the Baltalimani Wastewater Pretreatment Plant, which performed as a pretreatment plant for years, were launched in 2017. Bosphorus will enjoy much cleaner times as soon as the plant’s construction is completed. The plant will prevent the flow of yearly 65-70 thousand tons of sludge. In other words, nearly 170 tons of sludge to the Bosphorus will be prevented per day. Egg-shaped sludge decaying tanks, each with a capacity of 10 thousand m³ were built in Turkey for the first time. These tanks will fulfill thirty percent of the plant’s power demand.”
On the other hand, eighty percent of Eyupsultan Solid Waste Incinerator and Energy Generation Plant have been completed. The plant will contain three similar tree process lines for the combustion of the waste. The steam produced by the processed waste through grate combustion will be directed to the steam turbine. This turbine will generate around 78MWh of electrical energy.
The plant’s entire internal demand will be fulfilled by the produced electrical power and all the remaining electricity will be sent to the national grid. The state-of-the-art Flue Gas Treatment System will carry out the flue gas treatment in the plant. It will be uninterruptedly monitored and registered by the “Continuous Emission Monitoring” system as required by the European Union directives. In this way, 3.000 tons of waste will be eliminated in a way to prevent environmental pollution.
Europe’s largest domestic waste incinerator with a capacity of 3,000 tons/day and Turkey’s first domestic waste incinerator, this waste-to-energy plant will cover the electricity demand of 1,400,000 people.
Prevention of odor nuisance and a decrease in the waste transfer costs will be achieved and nearly 100 hectares of storage area will be saved. The emission values will be below the EU limits and a reduction of 1,38 million tons of greenhouse gases will be accomplished in the plant with cutting-edge technology. The plant will also bridge Turkey’s energy gap.