Capstone to deliver microturbines for water treatment plants in Italy

Clean technology manufacturer Capstone Turbine, through its subsidiary IBT Group, has received an order to deliver microturbines for three wastewater treatment facilities in Northern Italy.

As part of the orders, which are expected to be delivered by the end of this year, IBT will deliver four C65 microturbines and one C200R microturbine for the facilities.

In addition, IBT will supply other plant equipment such as a biogas gas treatment system, heat recovery modules and a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system for the three plants.

Capstone Turbine president and CEO Darren Jamison said: “This order is significant as it shows renewed interest from the biogas sector in Italy. Wastewater treatment projects have a very long sales cycle and this sale is the result of significant effort on behalf of IBT Group.”

The company will install the microturbines in a combined heat and power (CHP) application to cater to the electricity and thermal energy needs of the three facilities.

The digester gas heating at 70°C will be carried out by supplying hot water to the wastewater treatment plant.

Furthermore, the microturbines will run in grid connect mode on biogas from the local municipal sewer system allowing customers to operate with the utility grid in a load-sharing capacity.

Capstone Turbine sales and marketing executive vice-president Jim Crouse said: “Wastewater treatment facilities realise that they can leverage the biogas they produce to reduce their operating costs and increase on-site reliability.”

Based in the US, Capstone has shipped more than 9,000 microturbine systems to customers across the globe.