Tour A 

Visit to the CFB cogeneration plant of Stadtwerke Neumünster GmbH

In this plant about 100,000 tons per year of household waste are converted into electricity and heat for
district heating for the town of Neumünster. The household waste is fired as the high-calorific fraction
of the municipal waste which is obtained from a mechanical-biological processing.
The plant has a thermal power of 83 MW and was commissioned during the last two years. 

Tour B

Visit to the biomass-fired CFB cogeneration plant and the stationary fluid
bed sewage sludge combustion plant VERA of Vattenfall New Energy GmbH

Vattenfall’s waste wood combustion plant was commissioned in the years 2005. The combustor is
operating as a circulating fluidized bed with a steam output of 90 t/h at 90 bar and 500°C.   

The VERA plant incinerates the sewage sludge of Hamburg and some surrounding towns with
150,000 tons of original matter per year. The plant includes three parallel combustion lines.
The combustors are working as stationary fluidized beds. Combined with VERA is the sewage
sludge drying plant KETA where mechanically dewatered sewage sludge is dried until a residual
water content of about 40% is reached which is sufficient for autothermal combustion in the VERA.
The VERA plant is remarkable for its sophisticated gas cleaning system which, for example,
allows to reach mercury concentrations in the flue gas which are far below the European legal limits.