Duisburg municipal utility CHP plant equipped with urea injection system

Efficiency: 94 percent
Two of the three ETW plants with significantly reduced nitrogen emissions have been
in operation since the end of 2017 – at the Duisburg-Mitte and Duisburg-Süd sites. The
third plant in Duisburg-Süd will also be commissioned at the beginning of 2019, with all
three plants achieving a very good overall efficiency of 94 percent each with an intelligent
heat utilisation concept based on a second installed exhaust gas heat exchanger
stage (AWT) and a heat recovery from the mixed cooling circuit.
Below all current limit values
With the fully operational, fully automatic SCR catalytic converter plant including urea
injection (Adblue), the ETW plants comply with the latest state of the art and therefore
fall below all currently required exhaust emission limits:
NOx: < 100 mg/Nm³ (exhaust gas dry at 5 percent O2)
CO: < 100 mg/Nm³ (exhaust gas dry at 5 percent O2)
Formaldehyde: < 20 mg/Nm³ (dry flue gas at 5 percent O2).
Highest environmental standards already met
From a legal point of view, compliance with the limit values from the „TA-Luft“ version
of 2002 is still a legal requirement in Germany. It specifies that 500 milligrams of NOx,
300 milligrams of CO and 30 milligrams of formaldehyde per standard cubic meter
must not be exceeded. The amendment to the TA-Luft of 2017 has been initiated, but
has not yet been adopted. The new, higher limit values, which the ETW CHPs in Duisburg
already comply with, are fixed here. These stricter values were written into the
specifications by Stadtwerke Duisburg. By complying with the amended 2017 directive,
utilities aim to generate their energy as environmentally friendly and sustainable as
possible.
Reaction to customer requirements
ETW Energietechnik‘s innovative Adblue CHP units are among the first SCR plants
in Germany that are currently operating under full load on the grid. ETW managers
are absolutely certain that others will follow and that Adblue will become the standard.
„Usually, we currently only deliver the standard SCR catalytic converter housing with a
single-nozzle section for Adblue with the elements for compliance with the values according
to TA-Luft 2002. However, this simplifies retrofitting considerably and enables
us to react immediately to customer requirements“,emphasizes the sales manager at
ETW, Alexander Szabo.