Waste-to-Energy Plants in Hamburg & Niedersachsen

Borsigstraße
Location: HH
Operator: Vattenfall Europe Waste-to-Energy GmbH
Configuration: 3 X 6.4 MW, 1 X 20 MW CHP
Operation: 1963-2005
Fuel: refuse, wood
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Von Roll, FW
T/G supplier: MAN Turbo
EPC: Prokon
Quick facts: Throughput is about 320,000t MSW/yr. This plant was used to pilot the use of ChlorOut, a sulphate-containing group of additives used to reduce corrosive alkali chlorides in WTE plant flue gases. Unit-4 cost about €45mn and has a CFB boiler that can burn wood waste, flotsam, and other biomass.

Photograph courtesy of Vattenfall Europe
Posted 31 Jul 20086 May 2006

BKB Hannover
Location: NI
Operator: BKB AG
Configuration: 1 X 27 MW CHP
Operation: 2005
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: ??
T/G supplier: Alstom
Quick facts: Throughput is about 280,000t MSW/yr. The plant cost about
€100mn.

Photograph courtesy of BKB AG
Posted 6 May 2006

 

AHKW Neunkirchen
Location: NI
Operator: SOTEC GmbH
Configuration: 2 X 6 MW CHP
Operation: 1998
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Ansaldo
T/G supplier: Ansaldo, Tosi
Quick facts: This plant has two treatment lines, each with a capacity of 8.5 tph of MSW. Back-end equipment includes ESPs, baghouses, a wet scrubber, and oxidation catalysts.

Photograph courtesy of STEAG AG
Posted 23 Oct 2005

MHKW Pirmasens
Location: NI
Operator: SOTEC GmbH
Configuration: 16 MW CHP
Operation: 1998
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: ??
T/G supplier: ??
Quick facts: This plant has two treatment lines, each with a capacity of 12 tph of MSW. Back-end equipment includes ESPs, baghouses, a wet scrubber, and oxidation catalysts.

Photograph courtesy of STEAG AG
Posted 23 Oct 2005

Rugenburger Damm
Location: HH
Operator: Mullverwertung Rugenberger Damm
Configuration: 1 X 29 MW
Operation: 1999
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: BBP
T/G supplier: GHH, Alstom
EPC: Electrowatt
Quick Facts: MVR has district-heating capacity and is the second of Hamburg's two modern WTE plants.

Photograph by Manfred Schulze-Alex and courtesy of MVR Mullverwertung Rugenberger Damm
Posted 1 Aug 2002

MVA Stellinger Moor Damm
Location: HH
Operator: Stadtreinigung Hamburg
Configuration: 2 X 11 MW CHP
Operation: 1973
Fuel: refuse
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Martin, Walther
T/G supplier: AEG
Quick Facts: There is only sufficient steam generated to drive one steam set at a time.

Photograph by courtesy of Stadtreinigung Hamburg
Posted 14 Jan 2006

Weener
Location: NI
Operator: Weener Energie GmbH & Co KG
Configuration: 2 X 4.6 MW CHP
Operation: 2008
Fuel: RDF, paper mill waste
Boiler/incinerator system supplier: Baumgarte
T/G supplier: Siemens
EPC: Ingenieurbüro Kaiser, Cegelec
Quick Facts: This plant supplies steam for paper drying at the Klingele Papierwerke mill via a 1.8km pipeline. Fuel burn is about 140,000 tpy. The plant is operated by N.prior energy.

Photograph by Sarah Schäfer (wikimedia)
Posted 18 Feb 2011

Abbreviations

Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base

Updated 02/18/11

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