ABSTRACT
The fourth chapter presents twenty-three waste-to-energy (WtE) case studies with data drawn from reports of technical visits made by the author to relevant WtE plants in Europe over the last ten years. These case studies analyze technical data and specifications, such as the capacity and type of input waste, combustion chamber conditions, steam parameters, electrical efficiency, flue-gas cleaning systems, bottom and fly ash treatment processes, stack emissions, etc., and, additionally, basic financial data such as investment cost, gate/tipping fee(s), and feed-in tariffs on electricity, with many photographs taken by the author.
The WtE plants discussed are: two in Spain (Mataro and Barcelona); four in Italy (Torino, Brescia, Piacenza, and Acerra, in Naples); Poznan in Poland; Klemetsrud in Oslo; Kara/Noveren in Denmark; two in Portugal (Lipor in Porto and Valorsul in Lisbon); two in France (Oreade, in Le Havre, and Créteil near Paris); two in Germany (both in Hamburg, one municipal solid waste WtE plant and one hazardous waste WtE plant); two in Austria (the popular Spittelau in Vienna, and Arnoldstein); Westergy WtE Plant in Vaasa, Finland; the Isle of Man in the United Kingdom; the Meath WtE plant near Dublin, Ireland; the ISVAG WtE plant in Belgium; the EVN WtE plant in the southern part of Moscow, Russia; and, finally, the Alkmaar HVC WtE plant in The Netherlands.
