At A Glance:
- Location : Teesside, Middlesborough
- Client: Teesside Freeport
- Consultant: Atkins
- Contractor: MGL Group
Products Supplied:
- Low Risk SuDS Mitigation Indices
- 200 litres per second treatment flow rate within a single unit
- Up to 26,665 m2 Catchment area within a single unit
- Includes a Bypass for storm flows up to 650 l/s
- Third Party WRc certified performance
- 400 litres per second treatment flow rate within a single unit
- Up to 53,333 m2 Catchment area within a single unit
- Includes a Bypass for storm flows up to 900 l/s
- Third Party WRc certified performance
The Teesside Freeport, is the UK’s largest tariff free customs zone offering many advantages to businesses, including tax relief and simplified customs procedures. The site is 4500 acres in size, with over £500 million already invested. Investments such as SeAH Wind Ltd’s monopile manufacturing facility (a project SPEL has provided a large number of Puraceptor Full Retention Separators to) are already well underway, with the site earmarked for a groundbreaking carbon capture power plant called Net Zero Teesside.
Multiple new link roads were required to open up a further land at Teesworks. This link road has been described as ‘vital’ by Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen because it allows access to further development land and opened another access point into the UK’s first and largest freeport.
SPEL first helped specify and then manufactured four Smartceptor hydrodynamic vortex separators for this project. SPEL provided 2no. SPEL Smartceptor SHV400/200 (treating 200l/s with a connectable area of up to 26,665m2) and 2no. SPEL Smartceptor SHV500/400 (treating 400l/s with a connectable area of up to 53,333m2).
The SPEL Smartceptor treats surface water to a ‘low’ Pollution Hazard level in line with the CIRIA SuDS Manual C753 with a mitigation indices of 0.5 for TSS, 0.4 for Metals and 0.5 for Hydrocarbons.
Hydrodynamic Vortex Separators are often used on highways and on low risk pollution sites, however the removal performance and storage capacity of Hydrodynamic Vortex Separators may not provide high enough for many highly trafficked locations. Furthermore, where BS EN 858 compliance is required, other systems, such as the SPEL ESR Bypass or SPEL ESR Full Flow may be better suited to the application.
