In the beginning of the 1980s increasing environmental requirements imposes by German environmental legislation forced our industrial shareholders to take actions with respect to their energy production. There were two alternatives: to revamp the old, small plants that each shareholder owned by himself or to join together and to build a new, bigger central plant.
For ecological and economical reasons a central plant had more advantages. Because the shareholders (a public-private-partnership of local industry and local authorities) were experienced in the combustion of domestic coal they decided to erect a coal combustion facility. In 1990 the combined heat and power plant was commissioned with a high efficient flue-gas cleaning system.
01 Coal delivery
by ship, rail and truck
02 Coal bunker
holds max. 6000 t
03 Coal day bunker
hold max. 300 t each
04 Dry sewage sludge silos
2 silos with 300 m³ each
05 Traveling grate firing
06 4 train steam boiler
1+2 pass, 113 bar, 535 °C, 70 t steam/h
07 4 train steam boiler
3+4 pass, 113 bar, 535 °C, 70 t steam/h
08 Flue gas desulphurization system
09 Fabric filter
3 chambers with 180 fabric tubes each
10 Suction hoist
11 Chimney
with a height of 97.5 m
12 Residual material silos
3 silos with 200 m³ each Coal slag, fly ash, flue gas cleaning residues
13 Steam turbines
one with 12 MW
one with 17 MW
