WASTE-SCAN Against "Black Clouds" / WASTE-SCAN Monitoring System for Safety in Plant Operation

Many tons of waste are bunkered and processed every day in waste recycling plants. It is not uncommon for this to contain highly flammable materials. If ignition sources get into this storage area, for example during delivery, there is an acute risk of fire. Therefore, waste incineration plants are subject to the strictest fire protection requirements in order to prevent endangering the environment and local residents. For this reason, an extremely important preventive measure is the permanent monitoring of the waste bunker and, if necessary, the surrounding areas.

The central control and evaluation unit (cabinet) processes the data from multiple industrial thermographic camera heads simultaneously in real time. The evaluated data and live thermographic images from the areas to be monitored are transmitted directly to the control room of the plant and to the crane cockpits. Thanks to the twin system, which consists of an infrared and a visual camera, suspicious areas detected by the infrared camera will be displayed directly in the visual image for easy localisation by the operator.

ZMS Waste Incin­er­a­tion Plant Schwan­dorf, Germany
Since 1982, the ZMS has been operating several waste transfer stations in Eastern Bavaria feeding the Waste to Energy (WtE) Plant in Schwandorf. The four installed furnace lines convert waste into steam and electricity for the surrounding industry and district heating for the city of Schwandorf. Thus, per year 450,000 tons of waste are processed, which substitute the equivalent of about 139 million liters of heating oil. It goes without saying that the plant complies with the waste-to-energy clean air act.

A waste bunker with a capacity of approx. 8,000 tons is available to ensure continuous and smooth operation with sufficient fuel supply.

The waste temporarily stored here represents the greatest fire load of the plant due to its quantity and composition. When implementing a corresponding safety concept – also in compliance with the fire insurer – a modern, automated fire and temperature detection adapted to the specific needs of the plant should be used in addition to the extensive extinguishing technology, which is already installed.

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