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Lee Moor Advanced AD Facility Steps Closer To Reality

19 July 2011

An £11 million proposal to upgrade existing redundant buildings at the Lee Moor refinery site, Devon, into a modern, clean, high-tech Advanced Anaerobic Digestion (AAD) facility has moved a step closer to reality

AAD (South West) Limited has sent a planning application to Devon County Council seeking approval for the facility that will divert up to 75,000 tonnes of waste per year from landfill and provide up to 22 permanent jobs and up to 50 construction jobs.

Tristan Lloyd-Baker, CEO of AAD (South West) Limited said: "This is an exciting opportunity to bring life back to a former industrial site and restore local jobs to the area. We're very pleased to be able to submit this detailed and robust planning application, on which the team has worked tirelessly. We have considered the points raised through our close community engagement and the scheme has particularly benefited from this process.

"Anaerobic digestion offers enormous potential in terms of utilising the gases produced by the waste and converting it into green electricity. I now look forward to a speedy decision to allow us to redevelop the Lee Moor Refinery and make our Lee Moor AAD facility plans into a truly world-class waste processing reality."

AAD

The Advanced Anaerobic Digestion process is a combination of technologies that will reduce the volume of waste; separate out recyclables; produce a soil-like material; and maximise green energy production providing a local and sustainable solution for waste. Up to 75,000 tonnes of waste will be able to be processed at the site annually.

During the anaerobic digestion process, micro-organisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen to produce a methane and carbon dioxide rich biogas, which is suitable for energy production.

The facility at Lee Moor is projected to generate up to 3MW of renewable electricity and a similar quantity of heat from the processing of around 75,000 tonnes of co-mingled food and green waste. The process will produce around 11,600 tonnes of dry, solid, soil-like material per year for land restoration and recycle about 15,000 tonnes of metals, plastic and glass combined per year.

AAD (South West) Limited is part of the AeroThermal Group Ltd, an engineering company whose management team has over 30 years' experience in the design and manufacture of process engineering solutions.

Darrel Moore

For more information visit www.aadsw.net