EEW Energy from Waste Heringen.

Overview

Our Plant.

The city of Heringen is known for its miner tradition and potash mining. Numerous headframes and the Monte Kali dominate the landscape. The coveted 'white gold' has been taken from the earth for over a century in the Werra mining district to recover fertilizer for agriculture.

The Kali+Salz (K+S) company operates the Wintershall potash mine in Heringen, recovering valuable potash from the raw salts extracted. A great deal of energy in the form of steam and electricity is needed for the production process. Thus the idea of a partnership between EEW and K+S came about.

EEW Energy from Waste has been operating a waste incinerator at the foot of Monte Kali on the grounds of the Wintershall plant since 2009. 297,600 tons of household and commercial wastes as well as alternate fuels are thermally exploited here annually. Energy so generated is completely used in the potash mine. Both electricity and process steam are generated in cogeneration for the production processes.

Plant Data

Facts & Figures.

Commissioning	2009
Investment volume	130 million Euro
Capacity	297,600 t/a
Number of lines	3
Waste-bunker storage volume	15,000 cubic meters ≈ 7,500 t
Range calorific value	8-18 MJ/kg
Incineration temperature	>850°C
Steam geneartion	957,000 MWh/a

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 17.01.2019 - Current daily average

Element group	Abbreviation	Unit	Daily average		17. BlmSchV Grenzwerte
			Line 1	Line 2
Dust		mg/Nm³	n/a	0,26	5
Total carbon	C_ges	mg/Nm³	n/a	0,00	10
Hydrogen chloride	HCl	mg/Nm³	n/a	8,31	10
Sulphur Dioxide	SO₂	mg/Nm³	n/a	9,28	50
Nitrogen Dioxide	NO_x	mg/Nm³	n/a	140,40	150
Quicksilver	Hg	µg/Nm³	n/a	0,1	30
Carbon Monoxide	CO	mg/Nm³	n/a	10,43	50
Ammonia slip	NH₃	mg/Nm³	n/a	3,58	10

*17. BImSchV=17th Directive of Germany's Federal Immission Control Act

Emissions (year)

Emissions as Annual 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 values of the past years below (only in German):