Frankfurt waste incineration plant
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 9 '42 " N , 8 ° 38' 10" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
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| Type | District heating, electricity | ||
| Primary energy | Household garbage | ||
| power | 99 MW district heating , 49 MW electrical | ||
| owner | FES , Mainova | ||
| operator | MHKW waste heat and power plant Frankfurt am Main GmbH | ||
| Start of operations | 1966; Remodeling 1984–1987; Expansion to MHKW 2003–2009 | ||
| Chimney height | 110 m | ||
| Website | MHKW Frankfurt | ||
The Frankfurt waste incineration plant is a waste incineration plant in Frankfurt am Main . It can recycle up to 525,600 tons of household waste annually, generating 1,576,800 tons of steam, which is used to supply 30,000 households with district heating . Originally only built to supply the north-west of the city , the district heating network has been connected to the networks of other Frankfurt thermal power stations since 2010 and expanded to a total of 300 kilometers. The power plant generates up to 49 megawatts of electrical power using combined heat and power.
history
Waste disposal until the 19th century
Up until the middle of the 19th century, the removal of household waste in Frankfurt am Main was the sole responsibility of the homeowner. In 1855 the city signed a contract with several farmers and hauliers. For an annual fee of 1,500 guilders , they were granted a concession for municipal garbage collection and cleaning the streets and squares of rubbish. In 1872, the waste disposal companies terminated the contract because recycling the waste was no longer generating enough income. From April 1, 1872, the city had to pay 20,000 guilders annually for garbage collection.
A year later, the city took over the garbage collection on its own. They collected the waste, sold the ingredients suitable as fertilizers to the farms and dumped the residues in waste disposal sites set up for this purpose on the outskirts. Around 1900 the annual waste volume amounted to 75,000 cubic meters; by 1912 it had increased to more than 120,000 cubic meters. In addition, there were around 75,000 cubic meters of sewage sludge that accumulated annually in the Niederrad sewage treatment plant . The landfills not only took up valuable land, but also led to more and more complaints due to odor nuisance.
Niederrad waste incineration plant
In 1902 the city decided to build a waste incineration plant after the first plant of its kind, built in Hamburg in 1895, had proven itself on the European continent. At that time there were already almost 200 waste incineration plants in England. The new plant was to be built next to the Niederrad sewage treatment plant. It was designed for a daily capacity of 100 tons of household waste and 50 tons of partially drained sewage sludge. The incineration took place in 24 individual ovens of the Herbertz system, which were fed mechanically from above and burned the garbage at temperatures of 800 to 1200 degrees Celsius. The hot flue gases were used to dry the sewage sludge and to generate steam. Two turbo generators, each with an output of 360 kilowatts, were operated with the steam.
The waste incineration plant went into operation in 1909. After the First World War , the calorific value of the household waste generated in Frankfurt dropped dramatically, so that the plant had to be shut down around 1920. Since then, Frankfurt household waste has been stored in an open landfill in the Frankfurt city forest near the city limits of Offenbach. This landfill was known in Frankfurt under the name Monte Scherbelino . It remained in operation until 1968 and collected a total of over 12 million cubic meters of waste.
Nordweststadt waste incineration plant
In the early 1960s, the city turned back to waste incineration. The new incineration plant was built in Heddernheim . It was supposed to supply the large settlement Nordweststadt , which was built at the same time, with electricity and district heating. At the end of 1965, the plant with four incineration lines and a total capacity of 400,000 tons of waste per year went into trial operation. It disposed of some of the Frankfurt garbage, as well as waste from the Main-Taunus district and the city of Bad Homburg . The official commissioning took place on August 16, 1968. From 1984 to 1987 it was modernized and equipped with a flue gas cleaning system.
In 1997 the 110 meter high brick chimney of the waste incineration plant received a graffito . The image of a fire-breathing kite became the mascot of the Frankfurt waste disposal company FES under the name Fessie .
From 2003 to 2009, the system was renewed while the plant was in operation and expanded into a waste-to-energy plant with four incineration lines, each with a 20 t waste throughput per hour, and an incineration capacity increased to 525,000 tonnes per year.
literature
- Volker Rödel: Civil engineering in Frankfurt am Main 1806–1914 . Contributions to urban development. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-7973-0410-2 , p. 71-77 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topping- out ceremony for the Frankfurt waste incineration plant. Contemporary history in Hessen (as of March 27, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 26, 2019 .
- ^ Institute for City History , City Chronicle 1968
- ↑ Facts and Figures | MHKW Frankfurt. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .