East Alexandria Sludge Treatment Unit
Sludge treatment and biogas recovery, Host plant 800,000 m3/day; four digesters of 16,000 m3 each in Egypt.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Alexandria
- Coordinates
- 31.200, 29.950
- Technology
- Sludge treatment and biogas recovery
- Capacity
- Host plant 800,000 m3/day; four digesters of 16,000 m3 each
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Construction Authority for Potable Water and Wastewater (CAPW)
- Contractor
- SUEZ and The Arab Contractors (consortium); design by AAW Consulting Engineers
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- AFD sovereign loan
- Award or start year
- 2017
- Commissioned
- 2023
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2017-01
AFD project start for the sludge treatment unit at the East Alexandria wastewater plant
- 2023-12
Works reported complete, sludge reduced by 35 per cent and the plant 60 to 70 per cent self-sufficient in electricity
- 2024-02
Team Europe delegation visits the plant
Sources
6 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- AFD, Sludge treatment at the East Alexandria wastewater treatment plant, project start 1 January 2017, end 31 December 2023. afd.fr.
- Sovereign loan to Egypt for the Construction Authority for Potable Water and Wastewater, an anaerobic digestion unit on 12 feddans at the existing 800,000 m3/day plant, with thickening reservoirs, digesters, gasometers and cogeneration, 110,000 to 160,000 kWh a day and 60 to 70 per cent electrical self-sufficiency.
- Engineering News-Record, Best Environmental: East Alexandria Wastewater Treatment Plant Extension Phase 2 (7 December 2023). enr.com.
- Completed project, US$115 million, owner CAPW, general contractor a consortium of SUEZ and The Arab Contractors, design by AAW Consulting Engineers, sludge reduced by 35 per cent.
- SUEZ water handbook, Sludge digestion unit, Alexandria East. suezwaterhandbook.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
Four digesters of 16,000 m3 each. Cost figures diverge across sources and no single capital cost is entered: AFD's 2024 Alexandria factsheet gives EUR 50 million, ENR gives US$115 million.