Waste recycling Borsigstrasse Hamburg
The waste recycling Borsigstraße GmbH (MVB) is the operator of a waste incineration plant and a biomass power plant in Hamburg .
Overview
A waste incineration plant has been in operation in Borsigstrasse since 1994, replacing the old waste incineration facility at the same location. The plant was built in the early 1990s and started operating in 1994.
The incineration capacity of the plant is 320,000 t per year, distributed over two incineration lines. The waste heat generated during combustion is used as district heating for the city of Hamburg by means of combined heat and power. Materials produced during combustion and exhaust gas cleaning are either dumped or, if valuable raw materials such as hydrochloric acid , gypsum or scrap metal are involved, sold on. Part of the steam produced is passed on to the Tiefstack thermal power station .
Until 2014, the owners of the Borsigstraße GmbH waste disposal were 85.5 percent Vattenfall Europe New Energy GmbH and 14.5 percent Energy from Waste GmbH. In September 2014, the Hamburg city cleaning service took over the Borsigstrasse GmbH garbage disposal for 78 million euros. With the purchase of MVB, the shutdown of the Stellinger Moor waste incineration plant and the end of the contract with the MVA Stapelfeld on December 31, 2016, SRH reduced the incineration capacity by around a third to 640,000 tons per year.
In 2005, a biomass power plant was built on the waste incineration site. This burns wood waste and generates up to 20 MW of electrical energy and district heating. The capacity is 150,000 t per year.
criticism
When planning the waste incineration plant, environmentalists had concerns about the plant, even though it was built according to the state of the art and the ordinances of the Federal Immission Control Act . It was also argued that the system could not be fully utilized, as three systems were already present in the Hamburg city area at that time.
During the construction of the biomass power plant, it was again pointed out that in the Hamburg-Billbrook district there is already a reduction in air quality due to industry and waste incineration, and that the building of the power plant worsens it again.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtreinigung buys waste incineration plant for around 78 million. welt.de, September 5, 2014
- ↑ Hiev Op - employee magazine of Stadtreinigung Hamburg, page 1, issue 03/2015
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Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '54 " N , 10 ° 4' 26.8" E