An aerial view of the Dasherkandi Sewage Treatment Plant.
A completion ceremony for the Dasherkandi Sewage Treatment Plant, built by POWERCHINA, was held at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center in Bangladesh on July 13.
Sheikh Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh, stated at the ceremony that the sewage treatment plant will play an important role in improving and protecting local rivers and the environment as well as benefit millions of urban residents with its modern sanitary sewage treatment facilities.
The Dasherkandi Sewage Treatment Plant started construction in August 2017 with a loan provided by the Chinese government.
POWERCHINA is responsible for the construction of the external sewage lifting pump station, sewage transmission trunk line, main sewage treatment plant area, and sludge drying incineration system (with a processing capacity of 580 metric tons per day).
With a sewage treatment capacity of 500,000 tons per day, the plant is the largest individual sewage treatment plant in South Asia. It is also the first modern large-scale sewage treatment plant in Bangladesh and the first time that a sewage treatment plant and sludge incineration plant has been simultaneously built in the country.
It is also the first time that China's domestically-developed "spray drying + rotary kiln incineration" technology and equipment have been used overseas.
During the peak period of project construction, more than 1,000 local employees were employed, while the local economy was stimulated through the procurement of a large number of equipment and materials.
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has long suffered from water pollution. The plant will be able to treat domestic sewage created by nearly 5 million people in Dhaka every day, greatly reducing city's water pollution and earning wide praise from all parties involved.
In addition to the Dasherkandi Sewage Treatment Plant, the company also built the Cox's Bazar Wind Farm, which is Bangladesh's first large-scale centralized wind farm and the first new energy project constructed by a Chinese company in the country. The wind farm has promoted the rapid development of the country's wind power industry and the green and low-carbon development of the economy and society.
