Klärschlammtrocknung

Sewage sludge drying Hohenburg

Approval procedure according to 4. BImSchV for a sewage sludge drying plant with biomass heating plant

The market for sewage sludge disposal is still undergoing legal changes. As a result, the disposal options available to date are becoming scarcer and the rising acceptance prices provide the economic basis for alternative concepts.

This market environment and the experience gained from many years of operating an existing sewage sludge drying plant have prompted the client to implement a second, independent plant with a similar concept at the Aichaberg site in Hohenburg.

In addition to the sewage sludge drying plant, a biomass heating plant with a wood chip boiler is to be built to provide the heat required for drying in a regenerative and environmentally friendly way.

For such plants, there is a need to carry out an immission control approval procedure.

Key data on the project

Burkhardt GmbH

Tradition and constant innovation have made the Burkhardt company from Mühlhausen near Neumarkt i.d.Opf. what it is today: one of the leading German companies for energy and building technology.

Industry sector

Energy generation and waste utilisation

Project location

Hohenburg

Target group

Municipalities (disposal, waste recycling)

Keywords

Biomass, pellets, wood gasifier, sewage sludge drying, combined heat and power, process heat from bioenergy, forest wood chips, permit application, expert opinion

Technical data

  • Sewage sludge drying: up to 50 t/day
  • Woodchip boiler: 2,000 kWth
  • Moving floor as day bunker
Klärschlammtrocknung Burkhardt Hohenburg

Customer benefits

Smooth procedure with optimised processing time.
Full support by eta Energieberatung in the context of the immission control permit application as well as coordination of the required environmental reports and the parallel building application. This allowed the client and its partners to concentrate on the core competences of project implementation.

Task

The basic concept includes efficient heat generation from wood chips and low-temperature sewage sludge drying.

An immission control permit was required for the project.

Results

Granting of the permit in accordance with the 4th BImSchV for the construction and operation of the plant.

For Burkhardt GmbH, it was particularly important to find a planning office that had the necessary experience with regenerative heat generation concepts and sewage sludge drying and that had a good reputation in the energy sector. The comprehensive support provided by eta Energieberatung, in the context of the immission control permit application as well as in the coordination of the required environmental reports and the parallel building application, led to a smooth procedural flow with optimised processing time.

Claus Burkhardt
Sales Management Burkhardt GmbH 

Scope of services

The service provided by eta Energieberatung comprised those planning services resulting from the requirements for the application to the competent licensing authority for the construction and operation of a sewage sludge drying plant with bioenergy production.

In particular, this concerned the following engineering and consulting services:

  • Necessary basic evaluation and concept check for the technical equipment for the submission of an application
  • Coordination and further development of the results of the preliminary and draft planning for approval planning
  • Preparation of the permit application including coordination, agreement and compilation of all documents required for this purpose
  • Integration and coordination of the additional parallel planning services for the required structural measures (preliminary, draft and approval planning) as well as the externally processed expert reports (noise, emission, waste and environmental reports) for the submission of the application.
  • Communication with representatives of the authorities to ensure compliance with the content requirements in connection with explanations on the incorporation of technical detailed topics of the project

Let us help you to realize your concepts

We would be happy to help you solving your questions on the use of biomass and on the planning and optimization of heating plants.

 

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