The wastewater plant will be located roughly 900 km south of Teheran, in the city of Shiraz. It will be completed in a consortium with local company, JYANE, which will carry out the construction and assembly work. The wastewater plant is designed for the treatment of 100,000 m3 of wastewater daily and the biogas generated during the cleaning process will be utilised for energy production in a combined heat and power plant (CHP). The cleaned wastewater will be reused for agricultural irrigation and the end-treated sludge will be used as fertiliser.
 

Reinhard Nowotny, WABAG Vienna technical sales manager, said: “In Shiraz we will be able to realise a plant design that is technologically of a very high standard, meets our claim to sustainability and will benefit the environment, and above all, the Shiraz population.”
 

WABAG is scheduled to complete the wastewater plant within three years and start-up is scheduled for the beginning of 2013.