EEW Energy from Waste Heringen.

Overview

Our Plant.

Heringen is the heart of the potash mining industry in Germany. For more than 100 years, this “white gold” has been mined here. The corporation Kali+Salz (K+S) operates the Wintershall potash mine here, which requires a lot of energy in the form of steam and electricity. It was therefore obvious that waste from the region should be put to good use to meet these energy needs. This has been happening since 2009 in partnership with K+S at EEW’s energy from waste plant in the neigborhood of the potash mine in Heringen. Currently, 977,000 megawatt hours of process steam are generated here to supply the potash mine. To generate this energy, up to 297,600 tonnes of municipal and commercial waste as well as refuse derived fuels are recovered each year in a safe low-emission process.

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Luftaufnahme EEW Heringen

Plant Data

Facts & Figures.

Commissioning	2009
Total investement	€ 130 million
Capacity	297,600 tonnes/year
Number of combustion lines	2
Waste bunker capacity	15,000 cubic metres ≈ 7,500 tonnes
Calorific range of waste	8-18 megajoules/kilogram
Combustion temperature	>850°C
Power generation	9,000 megawatt hours/year ≈ 3,000 households
Process steam geneartion	918,000 megawatt hours/year

Emissions (day)

Emissions as Daily Average Values.

The operator EEW Energy from Waste Heringen GmbH publishes the emission data to continuously inform the citizens 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.

Heringen 21.01.2021 - Current daily average

Element group	Abbreviation	Unit	Daily average		17. BlmSchV Grenzwerte
			Line 1	Line 2
Dust		mg/Nm³	0,09	n/a	5
Total carbon	C_ges	mg/Nm³	1,21	n/a	10
Hydrogen chloride	HCl	mg/Nm³	6,78	n/a	10
Sulphur Dioxide	SO₂	mg/Nm³	5,85	n/a	50
Nitrogen Dioxide	NO_x	mg/Nm³	140,17	n/a	150
Quicksilver	Hg	µg/Nm³	0,1	n/a	30
Carbon Monoxide	CO	mg/Nm³	10,04	n/a	50
Ammonia slip	NH₃	mg/Nm³	0,15	n/a	10