Smith Engineering (GB) Ltd products

Design and manufacture of high efficiency, flat pack, overshot waterwheels, generating electricity from flows between 100 to 500 litres per second and heads 2 to 6 metres. Generate electricity 24/7, efficiently and predictably from the watercourse at your premises with our innovative design of an ancient technology. Smith Engineering waterwheels are built to a high specification following research and development in bucket design and efficiency. The novel design achieves approximately 75% water-to-wire efficiency.

Bentonite Absorber Blocks (B.A.B.) are a high-precision, engineered cement-based radionuclide absorbing and retaining system used to absorb low level active liquid and PCM nuclear waste, before encapsulation. Developed by Smith Engineering, the B.A.B. is manufactured at the absorbent block plant within the Maryport facility. It has been used extensively by Sellafield Ltd for 25 years in the liquid barrier lining in the base of their low level waste containers (containing PCM waste) at the above ground LLW Repository at Drigg, Cumbria. The stable long term storage nature of the B.A.B. makes it the only suitable product for this task.