Residue incineration
Technical details
Incinerator
Number of trains 2
Combustion capacity 55,000 t/a; 6.2 t/h
Combustion temperature 850°C – 1,200°C
Max. heat duty 40 MW
Rotary kiln
Length x diameter 10 m x 3.6 m
Heat-recovery steam generator
Steam generation max. 48 t/h
Operating pressure 16 bar
Electrostatic precipitator
Number of fields 3
Flue-gas scrubber
Scrubbing-water circuit (per stage) 500 m³/h
Coke adsorber
Activated filter volume 204 m³
Activated coke layer 1.5 m
SCR catalyst
Catalyst volume 21 m³
Best-practice disposal of production residues
Let us worry about compliant waste-management for you: Send your production residues to our industrial residue incinerator (RI) for best-practice disposal. We incinerate solid, liquid and gaseous waste for disposal and energy recovery in keeping with the waste-acceptance list and acceptance criteria. Our long-term operating permits mean you have a long-term waste-management partner that you can trust – with very high facility availability.
If you need to free up storage space, we can also provide just-in-time waste management. Record-keeping will become effortless since we will issue all your records of proper waste management and clear them with regulators. We can cut through the red tape to help you save time and money – just what you need when resources are tight.
We also offer custom transportation, analysis and documentation solutions.
Waste types
- Disposal or energy recovery in the residue incinerator:
- Over 300 categories of waste as defined in the Waste-Catalog Ordinance (AVV) with more than 1,800 individual waste types
- Solid, pasty, liquid and gaseous wastes as per waste-acceptance list and acceptance criteria
- Highly viscous waste (includes prior heating)
- Toxic and very toxic wastes such as chlorinated hydrocarbons
- Waste from pesticide production or major accidents
- Exhaust air, exhaust gas, and liquid waste generated by facilities in Industriepark Höchst can be disposed of over dedicated pipelines
- We accept your existing transport units, except with bulk materials
Diagram of the residue incinerator

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the diagram for a larger version (only available in German).
