Wykey Farm 500kWe AD plant, North Shropshire

The new 500kWe Anaerobic Digestion plant installed recently by Shropshire engineering firm Marches Biogas on Wykey farm in Ryton XI Towns in the north of Shropshire is now fully commissioned and performing extremely well.

Wykey Farm is a mixed farm near Shrewsbury in Shropshire. The digester design features the new Marches Biogas Semi-Plug Flow system. The advantages of this system are increased and optimised feedstock retention times, smaller plant footprint and greater biogas output.

Wykey Farm AD plant feedstock utilises thousands of tonnes of chicken litter and maize silage produced on the farm each year.

Farm Manager Simon Gittins commented "The AD plant has surpassed all expectations. We are seeing a real increase in gas production of between 15 and 20% over book values and electrical output efficiencies of around 95%".
 
The second CHP unit is due to be installed shortly increasing output to 1MWe.