Thermal waste treatment and energy generation plant (TREA) Breisgau.

Overview

Our plant.

In order to best utilise the energy potential of waste where it is generated, Abfallwirtschaft Breisgau mbH decided to build the TREA Breisgau plant. The TREA plant for thermal residual waste treatment and energy generation started operations in 2005. The plant generates 123,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year, equivalent to the energy needed by approximately 35,000 households in the region. To generate this power, 175,000 tonnes of residual waste from the districts of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Emmendingen, Ortenaukreis and the City of Freiburg are transported – mostly by train – to Eschbach im Breisgau each year, where the waste is recovered in a safe, low-emission process.

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Luftbildaufnahme TREA Breisgau

Plant Data

Facts & Figures.

Commissioning	2005
Total investment	€ 83 million
Capacity	175,000 tonnes/year
Number of combustion lines	1
Waste bunker capacity	20,000 cubic metres ≈ 10,000 tonnes
Calorific range of waste	7-16 megajoules/kilogram
Combustion temperature	>850°C
Power generation	123,000 megawatt hours/year ≈ 35,000 households
District heating generation	12,000 megawatt hours/year

Emissions (day)

Emissions as Daily Average Values.

The operator of the TREA Breisgau, EEW Energy from Waste Saarbrücken GmbH, publishes the emission data to continuously inform the citizens living at the Eschbach location on the quality of the exhaust gas purification of its waste incineration line.

You can find the current daily average values below. To display the data, click on the day of interest in the calendar.

Breisgau 20.01.2021 - Current daily average

Element group	Abbreviation	Unit	Daily average	17. BlmSchV Grenzwerte	Genehmigte Grenzwerte
			Line 1
Dust		mg/Nm³	0,5	5	5
Total carbon	C_ges	mg/Nm³	0,0	10	5
Hydrogen chloride	HCl	mg/Nm³	1,4	10	5
Sulphur Dioxide	SO₂	mg/Nm³	0	50	10
Nitrogen Dioxide	NO_x	mg/Nm³	64	150	70
Quicksilver	Hg	µg/Nm³	3	30	10
Carbon Monoxide	CO	mg/Nm³	8	50	50
Ammonia slip	NH₃	mg/Nm³	0,0	10	5