Lurgi Lentjes wins contract worth €35 million
* Expansion of a waste incineration plant in Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main, October 28, 2004: Lurgi Lentjes AG, Düsseldorf, a subsidiary of mg technologies ag, has won a contract to expand the capacity of a waste incineration plant in Frankfurt am Main. The customer is the Frankfurt-based plant operator AVA Nordweststadt GmbH. The order is worth roughly €35 million and involves the construction of a fourth waste incineration line. As part of the plant's comprehensive refurbishment, Lurgi Lentjes last year won a contract worth €167 million to build the first three incineration lines and retool the adjoining thermal power station.
The construction of the first two incineration lines will be completed in mid-2006, and the other two lines are scheduled to be brought on stream in 2008. In the modernized plant, the power generated from the incineration of roughly 450,000 tonnes of residual waste per year will be used to generate electricity and supply the north-west of Frankfurt with thermal energy. To refurbish the plant, Lurgi Lentjes will use cutting-edge technology to ensure that the waste is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way and that legally prescribed emissions limits are strictly complied with.
Lurgi Lentjes has previous experience of projects involving heat and power generation with gas-turbine and steam-turbine power plants and also has proprietary technologies and processes in the fields of incineration in circulating fluid-bed power plants, the conversion of residual and waste materials into usable energy and the reduction of air pollution. As a world leader in technology, this plant engineering company combines efficient waste disposal with resource-efficient power generation.
