Flötzersteig waste incineration plant
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 12 '25 " N , 16 ° 17' 22" E | ||
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| Type | Waste incineration plant | ||
| fuel | residual waste | ||
| operator | Garbage disposal-Betriebsges.mbH | ||
| Start of operations | 1964 | ||
The Flötzersteig waste incineration plant in Ottakring is Vienna's oldest such existing plant. At the same time, it is also the oldest waste incineration plant in Austria .
history
The increasing consumption of the population and the market launch of packaged products caused the amount of waste in the city to grow just as much as the change in heating habits. Waste that used to be used as fuel in wood and coal stoves was increasingly thrown into the rubbish bin due to the increasing use of oil and gas heating. Therefore the city of Vienna decided to build the waste incineration plant.
While the media was still discussing whether composting would be the better alternative (in September 1956 a composting plant started operating on the Löwygrube am Laaerberg in Favoriten ), the Vienna University of Technology tested the waste together with MA 48 for three years on its calorific value. As part of these experiments, rubbish was even shipped from Vienna to Bern , where it was burned in a waste incineration plant on an experimental basis.
The Flötzersteig was chosen as the location at the Flötzersteig bridge in the west of the city, as there were several large customers for the district heating to be used here, including the Wilhelminenspital , the Baumgartner Höhe psychiatric hospital, the Baumgarten pulmonary hospital and a washing plant for garbage cans planned by MA 48.
Mayor Franz Jonas laid the foundation stone for the building, decided in 1959 according to plans by Josef Becvar, on May 24, 1960. On the occasion of the topping-out ceremony on May 30, 1962, Franz Jonas announced the construction of Vienna's second waste incineration plant in Spittelau . Full operation began in March 1964, after garbage was burned here for the first time on April 25, 1963.
The waste incineration plant was designed for 60 percent of the waste generated in Vienna at the time.
Since 1985 the waste incineration plant Flötzersteig has been operated by Müllbesichtung-Betriebsges.mbH, a subsidiary of Heizbetriebe Wien, which leased the MVA Flötzersteig from MA 48 that year.
After this takeover, a three-stage wet flue gas cleaning system and a waste water cleaning system for heavy metal separation (mainly for cadmium, mercury, but also hydrogen chloride, sulfur dioxide and fine dust) were installed in addition to the previously installed exhaust air purification using electrostatic precipitators and a reversing cell deduster.
On November 29, 1989, the operators submitted a renovation application for the installation of a catalytic converter for nitrogen oxide separation and an activated carbon filter for dioxin separation. Since the existing chimney had to be replaced by a new, higher one, this application led to lively public interest. The hearing of this reorganization application, held on February 4, 1992, had to be held in the Austria Center Vienna , as around 1,300 people took part. The additional filter systems were finally installed between 1992 and 1993.
In 2006 the electrostatic precipitator was converted to a fabric filter to improve the separation of dust from the flue gases and the DeNOx system was converted to operation with a steam heat exchanger.
literature
- Peter Payer (Ed.): Clean Vienna - City Cleaning and Waste Disposal since 1945 , 60 Years of Municipal Department 48, Waste Management, Street Cleaning and Vehicle Fleet 1946 - 2006, Holzhausen, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-85493-131-7 .
- Peter Frybert, Municipal Department 48 - City Cleaning and Vehicle Fleet (Ed.): 70 years of dust-free garbage collection in Vienna 1923-1993. Bohnmann, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7002-0841-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sights in the 16th district: Flötzersteig waste incineration plant (www.wien.gv.at/bezirke/)
- ↑ Peter Payer (editor): Clean Vienna (page 24)
- ↑ Sights in the 16th district: Flötzersteig waste incineration plant (www.wien.gv.at/bezirke/)
- ↑ May 24th, 1960: Mayor Jonas laid the foundation stone for Austria's first waste incineration plant (historical review of the town hall correspondence - www.wien.gv.at/rk/)
- ↑ May 30, 1962: Topping-out ceremony for the waste incineration plant on the Flötzersteig (historical review of the town hall correspondence - www.wien.gv.at/rk/)
- ↑ 6.3.1964: Waste incineration plant on the Flötzersteig in full operation (historical review of the town hall correspondence - www.wien.gv.at/rk/)
- ↑ http://www.umweltnet.at/filemanager/download/10684/
- ↑ 25 years of Heizbetriebe Wien (archive report of the town hall correspondence from May 4, 1994 - www.wien.gv.at/rk/)
- ↑ http://www.umweltnet.at/filemanager/download/10684/
- ↑ Wien Energie : Geschichte Flötzersteig ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Vienna 2006 (accessed on May 25, 2010).
