ENERGY PROJECTS
Translation by Götaverken Miljö AB
Danish waste incineration cleaned with
Swedish help
The waste incineration plant
Måbjergværket in Holstebro on
Jutland is to be upgraded to the
order of 90 million Danish kronor.
The Danish energy giant Elsam is
behind the investment and the
main part of this gilt-edged con-
tract has gone to a company in
Göteborg, Sweden.
he incomplete incineration
of waste forms dioxins, one
T
of the most dangerous
environmental toxins in the world
and also one of the most
carcinogenic substances.
At the present time dioxin is
emitted from the waste processed at
Måbjergværket straight into the air,
but new EU directives are now
putting a stop to this health hazard
and have set the limiting value for
emissions to a maximum of
0.1
nanograms per normal cubic metre
of exhaust gas.
Patent pending
The plant’s existing flue gas plant
is to be supplemented with an addi-
tional scrubber based on ADIOX
technology, and developed by
Götaverken Miljö. This develop-
ment has taken place in co-opera-
tion with a research centre in
The Danish waste incineration plant Måbjergværket is to be modernised to meet the new EU directives converning hazardous
Karlsruhe, Germany. A patent has
emissions. The energy company Elsam will also be upgrading four other similar plants in Denmark. Photo: Elsam.
been applied for and the technology
has already been installed at waste
The old scrubbers in Måbjerg-
and sulphur. The upgrading of the
in the EU directives,” says
incineration plants in Sweden,
værket can handle the cleaning of
plant also includes the modification
Christian Morgen, project leader
Denmark, Germany and France.
chloride emissions, but not dioxins
of the old scrubbers, the idea being
for the upgrading of the Danish
that the new scrubber will be filled
energy
company’s subsidiary
with tower packing material of car-
Elsam Engineering.
Upgrading of the flue gas cleaning system at Måbjergværket.
bon doped plastic for the absorption
Måbjergværket was
commis-
of dioxin. The scrubber will be 4.8
sioned in
1994 a
nd has a waste
metres in diameter, with a height of
incineration plant and a biomass
30 metres.
section. The plant has two boilers
for the incineration of waste, and
B
reakthrough
each respective line has a capacity
Anders Lorén is
the project mana-
for the incineration of 10 tons of
ger for the contracted company
waste an hour.
from Göteborg, Götaverken Miljö.
Each boiler is
at the present time
He explains that the construction
provided with a wet flue gas
work with the new scrubber started
cleaner consisting of an electric
in October last year, and that the
filter, a scrubber for chloride
work is expected to be completed
cleaning and flue gas reheating.
in December this year.
- The undertaking is a b
reakthrough
L
argest Denmark
for our ADIOX technology,” says
Elsam is Denmark’s
largest pro-
Anders Lorén.
ducer of electricity and the com-
In addition to
the work done by
pany completely dominates the
Götaverken Miljö, Elsam will be
market on Jutland and Funen. It has
ADIOX technology will be used to take care of the dioxins hazardous to health.
heavily investing in the plant in
still not encroached on the lucrative
2005.
island of Zealand, largely because
- We
are going to install nitrogen
the deregulation of the Danish
dioxide cleaning and an ignition
electricity market only took place
burner that follow the requirements
three years ago.
NORDISK ENERGI - 2/2004
