Wuppertal waste-to-energy plant
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 13 '33 " N , 7 ° 8' 35" E | ||
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| Type | Waste incineration plant | ||
| Primary energy | Household garbage | ||
| power | 40 MW electr. 30 MW therm. |
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| owner | AWG Wuppertal | ||
| operator | AWG Wuppertal | ||
| Start of operations | 1976 | ||
| Website | www.awg-wuppertal.de/ | ||
The Wuppertal waste incineration plant was commissioned in 1976 in Wuppertal in the Küllenhahn residential area of the Cronenberg district near the Korzert court . It is operated by AWG Abfallwirtschaftsgesellschaft mbH Wuppertal . The Wuppertaler Stadtwerke , Stadtwerke Remscheid , Stadtwerke Velbert , as well as the cities of Wuppertal and Remscheid are involved in the AWG Wuppertal .
history
In 1970 the Wuppertal city council decided to build a waste incineration plant , as the disposal capacities within Wuppertal via local waste dumps were exhausted. A development of new landfills in the urban area was ruled out, since the development of Wuppertal and its neighboring towns also increased towards the edge of the municipality and new landfills would therefore only have been possible at greater distances at high construction and transport costs. Since the city of Remscheid was faced with the same problem, they joined forces to search for a solution to the problem.
Since the Korzert location offered good geographical conditions in the interests of both municipalities, this was agreed as the location of the new waste incineration plant. "MVA Wuppertal GmbH", founded in 1976, today's AWG Wuppertal , was the builder and operator of this facility . The symbolic " first groundbreaking " ceremony was carried out on August 21, 1973 by the then Federal Minister of the Interior and FDP local politician Hans-Dietrich Genscher and the Lord Mayor Gottfried Gurland . During the construction period, the garbage from households in Wuppertal was stored in Remscheid landfills. The incineration plant was put into operation at the end of 1975. In March 1976, the Federal Minister of the Interior Werner Maihofer officially inaugurated and opened the facility .
The construction costs of the plant amounted to 126 million German marks , of which about 20% were borne by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The costs turned out to be significantly higher than previously assumed, as high environmental requirements were not developed until the planning phase. In the end, this accounted for almost 40% of the construction costs, but to this day it also ensures that the high level of environmental compatibility is not achieved even by comparable, more recent systems.
The first accident at the power plant occurred in July 1977 when a protective coating caught fire during welding work and burned for several hours with heavy smoke due to inaccessibility. Thanks to subsequent work on the foundation of the approximately 100 m high chimney, its stability could be ensured. The repair of the damage took over a year.
With the conversion of the local garbage system in 1983 - the private metallic garbage and ash bins were replaced by free large plastic garbage bins , and a garbage fee per inhabitant was also charged from then on - the waste incineration plant also reached its capacity limit, so that from 1988 a cross-city waste management concept was promoted in the Bergisch city triangle . With the establishment of recycling centers, the establishment of a bulky waste collection and increased awareness of usable raw materials such as glass or paper, the amount of incinerable residual waste has been significantly reduced. This led to an incineration plant that was only 57% fully utilized, so that, especially in the 1990s, household waste from Velbert , Wülfrath , Haan and Hilden was also added to the plant's capacity utilization.
Between 1988 and 1998 the waste incineration plant was comprehensively modernized economically, technically and ecologically as part of the "AWG 2000" program. This made the plant the first nationwide waste incineration plant to receive the EMAS certificate. With the further development of waste incineration technology, AWG obtained numerous patents, which it was able to pass on to third-party plant manufacturers as licenses. All these advances made it possible to move from a pure waste incineration plant to today's waste incineration plant , which could be generated using the energy from the incineration process for electricity and district heating . Since 1995, the MHKW has been supplying the district heating network called "Fernwärmeschiene Süd" on the Wuppertaler Südhöhen . The Freudenberg campus of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , the company • Aptiv • Automotive and the school center south are connected to this network.
Key figures
The Wuppertal waste-to-energy plant has an annual throughput of 416,061 tons of waste, which is burned in five lines. 178,580 MWh of electrical energy were produced, of which 136,586 MWh were fed into the public power grid. District heating was fed 56,931 MWh into the district heating network and 5460 MWh transferred to the Küllenhahn outdoor pool.
The chimney of the plant is 95 meters high; so the flue gases leave the system at a height of 396 above sea level. NN
Since MHKW is partially fired with biogenic material, approx. 65,000 MWh are considered to be produced from renewable sources. The operator was one of the first to certify these accordingly.
photos
Aerial view of the waste incineration plant
The garbage dump from a crane operator's perspective
One of the combustion chamber entrances
System technology in the interior
The control center for process monitoring
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ AWG | Technical specifications. In: awg-wuppertal.de. www.awg-wuppertal.de, accessed on March 3, 2016 .
- ↑ AWG | Shareholder. In: awg-wuppertal.de. www.awg-wuppertal.de, accessed on March 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Environmental data 2014 (PDF)
- ↑ AWG | Stack. In: awg-wuppertal.de. www.awg-wuppertal.de, accessed on March 3, 2016 .
- ^ Andreas Boller: Kraftwerk auf Korzert: Wuppertal's rubbish turns into green electricity. In: wz.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed on March 3, 2016 .