Projectinformation

Construction of a biomass heating power plant

in Nuremberg-Sandreuth
2 Kraftanlagen Mnchen GmbH | Construction of a biomass heating power plant in Nuremberg-Sandreuth
General contractor for the engineering, supply, installation,
commissioning and test operation of a biomass heating power plant.
Project description
Flue gas cleaning
in the boiler house.
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Customer
N-ERGIE AG, Nuremberg
Brief description
Engineering and construction of a turnkey biomass heating
power plant.
The complete integration of the new plant into the existing
power plant site on Sandreuthstrae in Nuremberg posed a
particular challenge. Excellent conditions with respect to the
utilisation of existing infrastructure were accompanied by
extremely limited space for the construction and installation
phase. This point had to be taken into account as early as in
the engineering phase.
High demands were placed on construction with measures
such as the incorporation of an existing stair tower into the
new building complex and the installation of a turbine and a
heating condenser in the existing building. In addition to dis-
trict heating, all media from the water-steam cycle as well as
electrical, instrumentation and control technology were linked
up with existing systems in different buildings.
Project milestones

Placement of order December 2009
Start of construction August 2010
Installation of steam turbine May 2011
Boiler pressure test June 2011
First wood fire October 2011
Trial operation Febr. / March 2012
Acceptance March 2012
Scope of services
All construction and process engineering
plus electrical, instrumentation and
control technology
All construction work
Fuel delivery system with oversize
material separator and automatic
transport in six storage boxes
Fuel feed system to biomass boiler
Biomass combustion with steam
generator
Flue gas cleaning with silo
Steam turbine with generator
Heating condenser for district heating
Water-steam cycle
Metering and analysis
Piping and components
Pipe bridge between the buildings
Electrical, instrumentation and
control technology, safety system,
emission monitoring
Utility services (incl. water, ventilation,
fire extinguishing systems, fire alarm
system, smoke and heat exhausting
system, compressed air)
Installation and construction site
management
Commissioning and trial operation
Training and documentation
Picture on the left:
Steam turbine.
Picture below:
Generator cooling
water system.
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Scraper-chain
conveyor
Scraper-chain
conveyor Sliding floor
Oversize material
separator
6 storage boxes with 2 loading
and unloading conveyors (one
for every 3 storage boxes)
Scraper-chain
conveyor
Fuel delivery
Fuel storage area
Plant description
Fuel storage and transport
After weighing, fuel is tipped into a chute.
The chute can handle up to 20 lorries per
day, each containing 100 m of fuel.
Fuel is transported from the chute via an
oversize material separator to the self-
contained fuel storage area with six con-
crete boxes measuring 20 m x 5 m x 11 m
(L x W x H). With a storage height of 10 m,
approx. 4,000 m of fuel can be stored
here, which is enough to keep the entire
plant running for six days without a deli-
very of wood. The uniform distribution of
fuel in the boxes and the resulting dis-
charge is carried out by two loading and
unloading conveyors, which can be posi-
tioned above the boxes. Two redundant
lines with scraper chain conveyors each
transport up to 30 m/h of fuel to the
boiler.
Biomass combustion and boiler
After the fuel is pushed in hydraulically,
combustion is carried out on an air-cooled
feed grate. The water is evaporated in the
4-line water-tube boiler and brought up
to the required live steam parameters in
the horizontal superheater. After the burn-
out the slag falls into a wet deasher and is
transported into an ash container.
Flue gas cleaning
A multicyclone with 100 individual axial
cyclones serves as a pre-separator. This
is followed by a 3-chamber fabric filter,
which can reduce the dust concentration
to below 1 mg/m. The resulting flue dust
is pneumatically transported into an 80 m
silo and is picked up and disposed of from
there by silo vehicles. The exhaust gases
are discharged via a 151 m high chimney.
Steam turbine and district heating
The new backpressure turbine was in-
stalled in the former coal mill building.
A tapping device supplies the feed water
tank with degassing steam. The heating
condenser is flanged on directly and is
integrated in the district heating system
of the operator. If the turbine fails, the
live steam can be routed to the existing
3.8 bar steam network via a bypass sta-
tion. The media exchange with the new
biomass boiler house is carried out via
an 80 m long pipe bridge.
Functionality of the biomass heating power plant.
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67 C
6 MW electrical energy City of Nuremberg
in the existing 3.8 bar
steam network
N-ERGIE CCPP
Boiler house
Turbine room
District heating
13.9 MW
Steam conditioning
station
Biomass boiler Induced draft Multicyclone Stack
63 C
Silencer Ash container 3-chamber fabric filter Ash silo
Condenser
Hotwell
Generator
Economizer
Bypass station
Steam turbine
Technical data
Fuel
Untreated wood chips
Fuel requirement approx. 50,000 t/a
Fuel mass flow 4.5 - 12 t/h
Calorific value 6 - 12.5 MJ/kg
Efficiency > 85 %
Biomass boiler

Rated thermal input 23.1 MW
Live steam quantity 25 t/h
Live steam parameters 485 C, 65 bar

Steam turbine

Max. electrical output 6 MW

Voltage 6.3 kV

Backpressure machine with tapping and
flanged-on heating condenser

District heating

Max. district heat output 13.9 MW

Return temperature increase 63/67 C

Flow rate up to 4,000 t/h
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Electrical, instrumentation and control technology,
fire protection
Safety technology on a high level.
Operating and safety concept
The automatic operation of the system is
carried out from the existing control room.
The new Siemens T3000 was installed as
a process control system. It acquires all
process data, evaluates them and returns
corresponding control commands to the
aggregates and components. The safety-
related monitoring and the filing of all
system data is carried out in the control
system. To support the operator, online
access to the control system has been set
up via the Internet.
Electrical engineering
The installation of the block transformer
for withdrawal of the generated electri-
cal energy and the medium voltage plant
is carried out in the existing rooms. The
turbine switch cabinets were positioned
directly on the machine. For all other
switch and control technology cabinets
a new building was integrated in the bio-
mass boiler house.
Fire protection technology
A fire alarm system was installed for
fire detection. This system monitors all
sensitive areas of the plant technology
and the electrical operating rooms. The
alarm concept is completely integrated
in the existing power plant site.
Fire extinguishing system
The fuel transport systems into the boiler
house and the fuel storage tank of the
boiler are equipped with a fully automatic
extinguishing system. A semi-stationary
extinguishing system was installed in the
fuel storage area.
Picture above:
Switch cabinets
on the turbine.

Picture on the right:
Fire extinguishing system.
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Picture above:
Fuel storage area.

Picture below (from left):
Fuel delivery and
fuel storage box with conveyors.
Fuel
50,000 tonnes of untreated forest wood
chips and fresh wood from landscape
maintenance in the region are burned per
year in the new biomass heating power
plant. The fuel is delivered in walking-
floor or tipping lorries. The water content
of the fuel is between 30 and 60 %.
If it is determined during dumping that
the fuel does not meet the quality require-
ments, the material can be routed directly
out of the chute and back into the deli-
vering lorry with a bad-batch rejection
system.
Environmental protection
The plant is operated exclusively with
combined heat and power generation
and optimally utilises the energy of the
fuel with over 85 % efficiency. With peak
outputs of 14 MW thermally and 6 MW
electrically, 82 million kWh of district
heating and 35 million kWh of electricity
are produced annually. Compared to the
combustion of heating oil, approximately
28,000 tonnes of CO were saved.
Environmental protection
Degree of fuel efficiency > 85 % and
without producing additional CO.
Kraftanlagen Mnchen GmbH
Ridlerstrasse 31 c | 80339 Munich
Germany
T: +49 89 6237-0 | F: +49 89 6237-223
[email protected]
www.ka-muenchen.de
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