“The phosphorus reactor installed at Ringsend is now the largest such reactor by volume operating in Europe.
In fact, according to Mr Maguire, there are no larger phosphorus reactors in operation anywhere in the world.”
That’s pretty impressive… Ireland consumed ~46,000 tons of phosphorus in fertiliser in 2021, so that’s almost 12% of our entire national consumption from this one plant.
Good for the environment and recycles it for agriculture? Sounds fierce cool.
Could this be implemented easily to other waste facilities?
Could we use filter feeders such as oysters to clean the enough to make it cleaner? And the use the oysters as fertilizer. Is there any comparison or would the oyster benefit from less phosphorus?
Just a random thought, after hearing about it being done in other bays.
The sewage plant being in Ringsend will never stop being funny
The article says the facility handles 10 cubic meters of wastewater every second. How much of that needs to be treated before it can be discharged into the bay?
I can’t imagine all of that volume of water going into treatment tanks. But yet its all wastewater so it needs to be treated. So they must be able to do a quick filtering of the incoming water, keep the worst of it and send the best of it into the bay? Is that how it works?
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“The phosphorus reactor installed at Ringsend is now the largest such reactor by volume operating in Europe.
In fact, according to Mr Maguire, there are no larger phosphorus reactors in operation anywhere in the world.”
That’s pretty impressive… Ireland consumed ~46,000 tons of phosphorus in fertiliser in 2021, so that’s almost 12% of our entire national consumption from this one plant.
Good for the environment and recycles it for agriculture? Sounds fierce cool.
Could this be implemented easily to other waste facilities?
Could we use filter feeders such as oysters to clean the enough to make it cleaner? And the use the oysters as fertilizer. Is there any comparison or would the oyster benefit from less phosphorus?
Just a random thought, after hearing about it being done in other bays.
The sewage plant being in Ringsend will never stop being funny
The article says the facility handles 10 cubic meters of wastewater every second. How much of that needs to be treated before it can be discharged into the bay?
I can’t imagine all of that volume of water going into treatment tanks. But yet its all wastewater so it needs to be treated. So they must be able to do a quick filtering of the incoming water, keep the worst of it and send the best of it into the bay? Is that how it works?