Institutional-scale energy and waste management.
Nairobi school 32 m³ project
A 32 m³ institutional plant treating daily kitchen and sanitation waste while supplying the school kitchen.
- Capacity
- 32 m³
- Technology
- fixed dome
- Location
- Nairobi, Nairobi
- Completed
- 2024
- Sector
- institutional
- Feedstock
- Food waste, Human waste
- Applications
- Cooking, Water heating
- Technical review
- approved
Client challenge
A large daily waste load and high cooking-fuel expenditure in a constrained urban compound.
Site conditions
Urban compound with limited free area, requiring compact layout and protection of drainage.
Feedstock assessment
Kitchen waste from daily meal preparation combined with sanitation flow from the school.
Energy demand
Bulk cooking for the student population and hot water for the kitchen.
Engineering response
A 32 m³ digester with an expansion chamber and a gas network reaching the kitchen block.
Construction sequence
Excavation, reinforced construction, plastering, gas-tightness testing and pipe installation.
Gas handling
Main valve, condensate trap, filtration and pressure control before the institutional burners.
Appliance connections
Commercial cookers and a water heater.
Slurry or effluent management
Effluent managed in line with institutional sanitation requirements.
Commissioning
Charged, tested and commissioned with kitchen-staff training.
Documented outcomes
Daily kitchen and sanitation waste treated on site
Evidence: Company site observation
Outcomes are labelled by evidence type: measured, company estimate, client-reported or unverified historical claim. Unverified claims are never published as fact.