The Burgkirchen C-RPP planners cut the Gordian knot of resource recovery

The Zweckverband Abfallverwertung Sudostbayern (ZAS) project at Burgkirchen is presented in this paper. both municipal refuse and sewage sludge are to be taken to a single central combustion facility. Waste heat will be recovered for electrical power production and co-generated process steam. The installed waste disposal capacity will bye 1190 STPD (short tons per day on a 7 day basis). A multistage wet scrubbing system will be used for compliance with the strict guidelines for air pollution control of Technische Anieitung zur Reinhaltung der Luft von 1986. Effluent wastewater will be eliminated by recovering salt for sale to industry. Leftover residues from the scrubber will be combined with fly ash for conversion into impervious glass fragments. Ferrous scrap and construction aggregates will also be recovered for reuse. Because of an overloaded network of rural highways, a unique two-way rail haul system will be built which allows wastes to move in one direction and residues in the other. In the paper, the planning process and especially the criteria used for technology selection and integration are discussed