The national and regional planning bodies made the decision of erecting a waste-to-energy plant for the region Main-Rhön in the area of Schweinfurt. The main emphasis was put on the reliability of the waste recycling. Therefore three lines of incineration were installed with a throughput capacity of 8 tones per hour each.
Within the scope of the legislation other local authorities in the region associated as company shareholders. Today about 1.1 million people are connected to the thermal recycling system and provide their waste for the production of high-efficiency energy by GKS - Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Schweinfurt GmbH.
Emission values for the plant can be found on the website of the official Bayerischen Landesamtes für Umwelt (LfU) (Bavarian State Office for Environment).
01 Waste delivery
Waste delivery by truck
02 Waste bunker
The waste bunker holds a maximum of 7000 tons
03 Grate firing
Waste is incinerated here
04 SNCR Denitrification system
05 Boiler
4-pass boiler, 65 bar,
435 °C, 22.7 t steam/h
06 Multicyclone
Pre-dedusting
07 Flue gas recirculation
08 Spray dryer
09 Fabric filter
with 4 chambers and 132 fabric tubes
10 two-stage washer
Leaching of pollutants
11 Suction hoist
12 Chimney
with a height of 97.5m
13 Residual material silos
for fly ash and flue gas cleaning residues
14 Slag bunker
The slag bunker holds a maximum of 2000 tons