Waste to Watts
12-13 March 2007, Brussels

Day 1: Wednesday 12th of March

9.00-9.30: Registration

9.30-9.40: Chairman Ella Stengler opens the conference

9.40-10.25: Brussel’s legislation pipeline and how it affects Waste-to-Energy

  • From Waste to Energy to Climate protection in light of the Waste Framework Directive.
  • The "energy package", e.g. the Renewables Directive.
  • The directive on industrial emissions and how to use the BREFs in an intelligent way.

Ella Stengler, Managing Director, CEWEP
Ella Stengler is the Managing Director of CEWEP (Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants) since July 2003. CEWEP represents 340 Waste-to-Energy plants from 17 countries.
Previously she was the Managing Director of ITAD the German association of Waste-to-Energy plants, and prior to that she was the Director of AGS the German association of hazardous waste companies.

10.25-10.45: Coffee and tea

10.45-11.15: The novella of the waste frame direction - important changes for the waste managemant in EU-member states in the German point of view

Waste hierarchy, principle for the best environmental option and exception for reasons of technical feasibility, economic viability and environmental protection, The end of waste status and accordance with specific criteria developed unter defined conditions, Bio-waste measures in the member states, assessment by the Commission, start for a european legislation.

Wolfgang Klett, Senior Partner, Köhler&Klett
Wolfgang Klett is senior partner of a law firm, specialized in environmental and technical law at cologne, berlin and brussels. He studied first town-planning at RWTH (that means Technical University) Aachen, finished as Dipl.-Ing., worked as scientific assistent in an ecologic institut while studying law at cologne and munich university,  after the two exminations he startet as lawyer,  later on he obtained a doctoral degree as Dr.-Ing. at RWTH Aachen.

11.15-12.00: The development of the Energy Efficiency BREF

  • A request not to be refused - why this was a late addition to the BREF work programme.
  • To be or not to be... BAT: the changing expectations for the conclusions.
  • What the Energy Efficiency BREF contains.
  • How the BAT conclusions work together.
  • Future developments and how the BREF and its contents may be used.

Paul Tempany, Consultant, Independent
Paul Tempany is a chartered chemist and chartered scientist with 39 years experience in industry and in industrial pollution prevention and control. He has been a director of an IPPC installation, a pollution inspector, and a manager for R&D, policy and legislation development in waste and IPPC for the UK. Paul has recently completed 6 years in the European IPPC Bureau and was the author of the Energy Efficiency BREF, and two others on surface treatments. He is now an independent consultant.

12.00-13.15: Lunch

13.15-14.00: Incineration versus recycling - future options in Tallinn

By the year 2013 an incineration plant will be built next to Tallinn changing the whole principle of the current waste management structure:

  • The role of city government in waste management is mainly administrative, however essential.
  • Waste collection and treatment facilities in Estonia are mostly privatized.
  • Tallinn has implemented source sorting for packaging waste, old paper, green and biodegradable kitchen waste, hazardous waste and WEEE.
  • Tallinn generates 1/3 of municipal waste of Estonia which is the capacity of one incineration plant.
  • EU directives set objectives, targets and limits both recycling and land filling.
  • Tallinn City is the owner of Tallinn Landfill with 35%.

Jana Kivimägi, Head of Waste Management Division, City of Tallin
Jana Kivimägi is the head of Waste Management Division in Tallinn City Government Environment Department. She has Master degree in Natural Sciences (2005). The development trends of Tallinn waste management was analysed in her master thesis. She has worked for TallinnCity Government since October 2003.  In the current presentation Jana Kivimägi has focused on the future options for municipal waste incineration in Tallinn and the effect of incineration on waste management market and particularly on the separate collection of recyclables from the administrative aspect.

14.00-14.30: Coffee and tea

14.30-15.15: Waste handling in Switzerland demonstrated at the situation of the city of Zurich

  • Swiss legislation
  • Incineration and energy handling
  • Emission limits
  • What happens with output products

Martin Lemann, Founder and Owner, AVUT Consulting
Dr. Martin F. Lemann, AVUT Consulting, Dubendorf, Switzerland. Since June 2000, Dr. Martin F. Lemann is the head of AVUT Consulting - a registered company in the Commercial Register of Businesses in Zurich. After getting the doctors degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, he worked between 1977/1983 at an Engineering office in a general environmental context, focusing on Exhaust Gas Filtration and Purification.

15.15-15.45: Land filling practice and Waste to Energy Techniques in the Czech Republic

  • Land filling and reuse of landfill gas.
  • Energy recovery of fuels made from waste and waste incineration in the country.
  • Biodegradable waste and anaerobic digestion.

Jaromír Manhart, Senior Expert, Ministry of Environment Czech Republic
Jaromír Manhart is a senior expert at the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic, Waste Management Department, Unit of Waste Technologies. He is responsible for waste management of hazardous wastes with special interest in persistent organic pollutants (POPs), PCBs and European Wastes List. He experienced in the implementation of the European Community law into the law system of the Czech Republic since 2002.


15.45-16.30: Developments in energy production from MSWI-installations in the Netherland

  • Developments in MSWI capacity in the Netherlands.
  • Effects on electricity production from MSWI in the Netherlands.
  • Developments in heat supply from MSWI in the Netherlands.
  • Effects on CO2 - emissions.
  • Comparison with the international situation.

Frans Lamers, Senior Consultant, KEMA Consulting
Frans Lamers is a senior consultant in the field of Waste to Energy. He was educated as an industrial mineralogist. He started working in the general field of waste management in 1983 and works for KEMA since 1993 where he has gradually focused on Waste to Energy. Since 2000 he works as an account manager and senior consultant in the field of Waste to Energy. He is member of ISWA and VGB working groups on waste to Energy.

16.30 -17.00: Questions

19.00: Conference dinner

 

 

 

Day 2: Thursday 13th of March

9.00: Chairman Dieter O. Reimann opens the conference

9.00-9.30: Next Generation of Waste Fired Power Plants: Getting the most out of your trash!

  • Introduction
  • Proven technology - but still improving!
  • Waste Fired Power Plant Reno Nord - super thermal efficiency.
  • Modern design tools CFD.
  • ACC advanced combustion control systems - get the highest electrical out put!
  • What is on the horizon.

Ole Hedegaard Madsen, Director for Technology & Marketing, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund
Ole H Madsen is Director for Technology & Marketing in Babcock & Wilcox Vølund. He has a M.Sc. in mechanical and combustion engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen. He is member of the board in The Danish Committee for Waste (DAKOFA) the Danish waste management organisation. He is member of the WGTT Working Group Thermal Treatments, ISWA, International Solid Waste Association.

9.30-10.00: Flue gas cleaning and energy recovery by using absorption heat pumps and chillers.

  • Wet flue gas cleaning with integrated dioxin removal.
  • Far reaching heat recovery by the use of absorption heat pumps.
  • Absorption chillers to utilize heat.

Lennart Gustavsson, Managing Director, Götaverken Miljö
Lennart Gustafsson is since 2001 managing director of Götaverken Miljö AB, and has been working with energy from waste plants since late 1970.  At the beginning of 1980 he started up the first municipal solid waste fired fluidised bed boiler in Sweden, and has after that been employed as technical manager by different boiler manufacturers up to 2001.

10.00-10.30: Coffee and tea

10.30-11.00: Vertical BREFs versus horizontal BREFs and their BATs as best available techniques

  • IPPC Directive and IPPC permit.
  • Overview and difference between BATs in vertical and horizontal BREFs.
  • BAT examples from BREF Waste Incineration and Draft BREF Energy Efficiency (ENE).
  • BREF as guidance document or mandatory.
  • BREF data as basis for benchmarking.
  • Monitoring, measuring and balancing for the review of BREFs.

Dieter O. Reimann, Scientific & Technical Advisor to CEWEP
Dieter O. Reimann is a doctor of sanitary engineering. He studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart and at the Technical University of Berlin where he finished his PhD in environmental technology. He has a life long experience of working as a consultant and expert within waste to energy, he is also a former director of the W-t-E plant in Bamberg. Now he is working voluntary as technical & scientific advisor to CEWEP in Brussels and as consultant for energy calculation models and evaluation.

11.00-11.45: Increased WtE plant efficiency by high-level control

High level control in an open environment, providing fast and efficient optimization on WtE plants. Pay back in less than 12 month.

  • 3-6% more efficient operation.
  • 5% more waste throughput.
  • Lowe environmental impact.
  • Better operational environment for operators.

Asgar Danielsen, Director and 50% Owner, Dublix Engineering A/S
Asger Danielsen is director and 50% owner of Dublix Engineering A/S; he has a bachelor degree in electrical engineering and business administration. He has more than 20 years of experience from the waste combustion industry in Europe and in the Far East. Asger Danielsen has his main focus on the process operation particular related to the advanced optimization of the Waste to Energy plant.

11.45-12.45: Lunch

12.45-13.30: Less waste of energy in a waste to energy plant

  • Energy efficiency  from the source (converting primary energy) to the outlet.
  • Potential of energy savings in your WtE process with a waste controller "WACS".
  • Why should i have a look at standard equipment like Motors and Transformers.
  • Why will a Frequency Converter (VSD) help improve the energy efficiency.
  • Impact of a not correctly sized drive (e.g. for a fan).
  • Conclusions

Albert Bossart, Head of Sales, ABB
Albert Bossart is a dipl. El. Engineer with focus on process control with additional degree in Marketing and Sales. He has practical experience on planning, engineering & commissioning for drives and control systems on big newspaper presses, induction furnaces and power plants. Key Account Manager and specialised Sales in IT, Telecom, eMarketplace and for capital systems like Print Finishing. Since August 2008 he is head of sales at ABB for WtE plants.

13.30-14.00: Coffee and tea

14.00-14.45: Waste is a Resource (from Waste-to-Energy to Energy-from-Waste)

  • Position of modern thermal waste treatment technology in sustainable waste management.
  • Contribution of Waste-to-Energy to saving of resources incl avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Ways to make more out of the energy recovered from the waste.

Edmund Fleck, Chairman, ESWET
Born on 14.9.1952 in Berlin, married, 4 children. Study of Physics at the RWTH Aachen, Degree: Diplom-Physiker. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA. Since 1986 in different functions in BBC/ABB/ALSTOM, at different locations. Since 1990 in Waste-to-Energy. Since August 2002 working for Martin GmbH für Umwelt- und Energietechnik in München, Managing Director since 2004.

14.45-15.30: A new generation of Waste-to-Energy: Designed for output.

  • New technology for WtE why and how.
  • Practical experiences with a full scale commercial operation.
  • Performance indicators for now and future WtE.
  • CO2 balance of WtE.

Marcel van Berlo, Technical Advisor, Afval Energie Bedrijf
Marcel van Berlo has over 15 years experience in the operation, design and optimisation of Waste-to-Energy plants. He developed the High-Efficiency WtE concept and is giving many presentations about 4th-generation WtE. He is publishing (PhD traject at VU university of Amsterdam) about the backgrounds of WtE, project definition, economics and decision making for large long term investment projects. In 2001 he became advisor of the director for the extension project HR-AVI.

15.30-16.00: Questions and Closing of the Conference