Osnabrück. Book hot caught
:: Fire in Feuchtstabilat
Ennigerloh? Third-world sweatshop?
On the night of Saturday 27 January 2007, it burned again in Herhof / Helector in Osnabrück. This time in a store with an RDF of the mechanical-biological waste treatment - MBA. According to the Neue Osnabruecker newspaper, it apparently came to the fire by spontaneous combustion. With the rotting dried by alternative fuel situation is similar with Gremlins, the crafty little animal fable of Hollywood. They must not get wet, otherwise it leads to disaster.
If RDF or similar substitute fuel is damp starts again from about 15% water content, the decay, apparently in this case up to spontaneous combustion. Theoretically it is possible that the roof is was leaking and has come raining. More likely is that the stabilate was stored moist. Feuchtstabilat arises when the gang was too short, perhaps caused by a shortage of capacity (see previous report) or by anaerobic nests in rotting material.
The planned expansion of storage in three halls can ors the problem with Feuchtstabilat but in the meantime, but hardly solve. The sprinkler system required by the authorities would at the next spontaneous combustion in a large quantity of wet mud, which no cement manufacturers. Is there a repository prepared, with the halls as visible-only hub? The size of
Herhof / Helector announced global export of the technology seems more questionable (see report of fire in August 2006).
Also on a Saturday morning, on 3 Burned in February 2007, which was built by Horstmann MBA Ennigerloh in the mechanical part. About 300 t spare fuel went up in flames. Cause still unknown. The volunteer fire department Ennigerloh knows the system already. In 2006 she put out in a recycling plant on the west side of the MBA Ennigerloh there is already on 12 December, 31 August, 19 June and 24 April. The fire on 16 March nachlöschen had it three times. It was a false alarm on 28 December 21 December 23 June, 21 June, 11 May and 27 April called. Six fires and six false alarms in a year. After all informed the operator Ecowest on the same day professionally over the mishap, which of course is not the usual practice.
embarrassing for Ecowest CEO Thomas Grundmann, that in his capacity as CEO of the Association ASA (Association of substance-specific waste treatment) on the 16th January 2007 was announced in a press release that there were only five MBT plants especially with a wet digestion stage - limited operational difficulties. The ASA eV faces claims to a federal association for MBA technology.
the math who noted that there are more than five. Problems have or have had the MBA in Lübeck, Hannover, Osnabrück, Ennigerloh (NRW), Göttingen / Deiderode, Freienhufen (Brandenburg), Asslar (Hessen), Book and Heilbronn (both in BW). That would be nine.
Germany needs a quality initiative rather than well-intentioned press releases. The bad news about MBA pile up, unfortunately. Haase, Herhof / Helector, Hese, Horstmann. And EnBW / U-Plus / T-Plus. One wonders where it jams. Natural selection process of young technology? Technical failure? Miss Management? Now local authorities to their disposal cheap one, because cheap is it cool? England might be a good export market, which has already expressed an interest in "continental" technique. Haase just announced a contract from Manchester. The decision was made as before the mishap in Lübeck? Hopefully, the export opportunity for German waste technology is not wasted.
www.asa-ev.de
http://www.ecowest.de/default.htm
http://www.feuerwehr-ennigerloh.de/Einsaetze/Einsaetze2007/070203ba/070203ba.htm
http://www.feuerwehr-ennigerloh.de/Einsaetze/Einsaetze2007/070208bma.htm
(including photos of fire use in Ennigerloh)
http://www.haase-energietechnik.de/de/News/
Here is the report of the New Osnabruecker Zeitung, 31 January 2007
http://www.neue-oz.de
"RDF burned. Hall was not approved rll Osnabrück
Stabilat It was the Herhof plant that burned over the weekend, no geschreddertesVerpackungsmaterial But the hall from Carl-Stolcke-road was not approved for the storage of the fuel.. And also not suitable as gifts Saathoff-Schiche, head of the State Trade Inspectorate, stated.
The police have a criminal case against the firm Levien initiated rental Herhof the warehouse in the port. Perhaps the proceeding should be extended to the company Herhof, A police spokesman said yesterday.
alleges that easily inflammable material was stored in a warehouse, the Parking is authorized only as a container. Although Levine had an operating license for the storage of RDF, but in a different building. The hall where it was burned on Saturday, have no suction and no sprinkler system, said the police. For reasons of fire safety to prohibit the storage of flammable substances.
by spontaneous combustion apparently had gotten the RDF on fire. It is a fuel that is produced in Herhof from the dried and ground waste. The company on Fürstauer way which produces about 45,000 tons per year. Most of it is burned in a cement plant near Itzehoe.
In Osnabrück are sent daily eight large trucks with RDF on the trip, "just in time", as insured Herhof manager Dr. Ralf Tuminski. His company could not afford that the plant must be shut down just because it's on the highway once again give a traffic jam. The "envelope space" at Levien had been leased to buffer such interference. In fact in assuming that everything is so approved.
Tuminski announced that Herhof would soon build its own hall on the premises at Fürstauer way to be independent of transport bottlenecks. The conversation had a capacity of about 1000 tons. The building application was currently being prepared for completion should still be possible this year.
To make ends meet may, Herhoffer hire two more warehouses, for the cement factory in Itzehoe will likely be shut off for five weeks. . These venues are approved by the Labour Inspectorate, assured Tuminski "
The Osnabrück Sunday newspaper said on Sunday, January 28, 2007, on page 9: www.os
-sonntagszeitung.de
" Four hours unloading at Herhof
shredded packing material caught fire.
was last Friday at 2.10 clock Osnabrück firefighters in a fire in a warehouse the company
Herhoffer at the Carl-Stolcke Street alarmed at the port. In addition to the
Truck of the fire department, supplemented by the large fire truck (GTLF), was used
the volunteer fire Eversburg. Upon arrival of a smoldering fire in a 20 by 40-foot hall was found stored in the shredded packing material. The hall was completely subsided, first fighting attempts by operators who had no detectable effect. Around the smoldering fire to taping had local-loaders using the stored material can be made into the open where it by the fire with water and wetting agent was quenched. Some so-exposed nests flak fire-Kert on an open flame, so that the safety of the wheel bearing to-One, the material in the hall was covered with a layer of foam with the possibilities of GTLF. After 4 hours of unloading, the hall was emptied of liquid to two-thirds of grants. The remaining material was again al-covered with foam, hand over the operation site to the manager. (PA)
The newspaper reported the bell on Saturday, February 3, 2007:
http://www.die-glocke.de/gl/cgi/news/shownews.php?id=1756
"Ennigerloh: 10 million € of damage to landfill fire
By DIRK Baldus
Ennigerloh / Kreis Warendorf (gl). The fire in the center of the waste disposal company of Warendorf district on Saturday morning with a damage served in the amount of ten million €. No one was injured. After measurements, the Fire Department and the State Environmental Agency in Ennigerloh citizens were not threatened by toxins in the smoke. Erupted
was fire around 4:30 clock in the morning. About the fire alarm system at the landfill was on the control room an alarm. Udo your old, spokesman for the Fire Department Ennigerloher: "Even the arrival of the emergency services was clear that they needed reinforcement - the fire already had his full extent erreicht.Betroffen was, according to the Waste Management Corporation of the reprocessing facility for alternative fuels. The reception hall, where an estimated 500 cubic meters (300 tonnes) household waste were stored, and the subsequent major treatment were completely destroyed by fire.
Why the household waste caught fire, has not yet been elucidated. The criminal police has started investigations. First results will be in the next few days erwartet.Um the flames, whose light was to much to see in the district of Warendorf in to delete, using the fire department was headed by Andreas Wiegel, Deputy Fire Chief of Ennigerloh to alert over 200 emergency personnel. All Ennigerloher fire trucks, fire trucks to tank, ladders and specialty vehicles from the entire district of Warendorf and a foam fire engine Munster were made on site to help with the unloading process and prevent the spread to adjacent buildings. "clock at 7.30 we had the fire under control, Udo Your Old Ennigerloher reported the fire department. There was, however, far from closing time for the firefighters. Yet on the whole Saturday they were busy with damping-down. The difficulty in this work: the still smoldering garbage had to be pushed apart so he could be blotted with excavators and caterpillars. Here, the fire department by members of the waste management company of the group was supported. In order to cater for all forces, marched for Technical Relief Oelde at.
to starting work, provided the population Ennigerloher burn with all the question of insecurity, which the garbage in the landfill well. Immediately after the arrival of experts from the fire department made the first measurements at seven points. At the same time the federal environmental agency was informed in order to control at various locations in the city, the impact of fire smoke. Udo your old: "All the measurements have shown that no toxic substances are formed that could endanger the population.
As in the first minutes of the fire was almost no wind, was a major part of the deep black smoke climbed high. Only in the course of discharge had the wind increased and the clouds - mainly over the industrial area Haltenberg away - into the east field. It is clear, however: with the odor, the Ennigerloher still need to live a few days.
was on site in addition to Mayor Ennigerloher Luelf Berthold, Thomas Grundmann, CEO of the waste disposal center. "The exact amount of loss we will notice in the coming days. After initial rough estimates that figure will be ten million euros, said the CEO. The fire service, Grundmann, be it a debt of gratitude. Through their professional action it had prevented something worse. "It is good that we are in several Exercises have recorded our cooperation. Model, the cooperation with the police and the county government had been.
Despite the fire and the temporary loss of mechanical waste treatment plant is the removal of household waste, according to the AWG still guaranteed. Therefore a failure related concern with other collectors. The operation of the other plant parts such as recycling or composting plant was not affected. The disposal center Ennigerloh should be open on Monday morning at 7:30 clock back "
These aspects and other reports deal with the Europe Online, 18 and 19 February 2007.
http://www.europaticker.de/ticker/news_druck0.php3 ? number = 1687
http://www.web4free.at/Artikel.2434
seep slowly through background information about the disaster of the MBA Book. If you believe an article in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of 23 February 2007 (he seems credible) it was there like in a Third World sweatshop. The employees were therefore fumigated for months, with hydrogen sulfide, ammonia (both toxic), methane and a cocktail of bacteria and molds. There was corneal burns, Mandelvereiterung, rash, gum inflammation and redness. The paper reported, several temporary workers were laid off.
Our conclusion: time workers and temporary workers are known to be for the coarsest dirty work used to protect their staff (sick keep low). It is only natural that you want to get rid of the chemically and bacterially contaminated workers first and most straightforward, as I said, if one runs a third-world sweatshop. Actually, this should not be possible in Germany. EnBW announced in February that in 2006 the first time a consolidated surplus was achieved of more than 1 billion euros (13.2 billion euros). We wonder, since even if the early capitalism has returned.
EnBW / U-Plus spokesman Raphael Dieke tops that one. He shared his assessment with the Heilbronner Stimme (Report 16 February 2007):
. "The discussion about the underlying technology is still not loud Dieke checked off, but need good back a lot of lobbying and other development Finally, the majority of the MBA is not going smoothly."
Excuse me Mr. Dieke? Most of the other 50 MBA is no better than yours? If it is dirty, should be washed, but not others throw mud! Subjecting yourself once a thorough percolation. A little nose ammonia could sharpen your perception. With lobbying, it is now not really done. And development thrives only in a good climate, if its employees do not unconscionable burned.
running the Yellow-power plants really well with such safety standards? Is there also corroded pipes? Traps the workers from the teeth?
Here is the report of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of 23 February 2007:
http://www.rnz.de/zusammen13/00_20070223095600_Ausschlaege_Augenroetung_Entzuendungen_Arbeiter_.html
"rashes, eye redness, inflammation: Workers exposed to health risks?
(Wd) of the employees are because of bad odors and persistent technical problems, the infamous garbage factory have been working for months without adequate working and breathing in the composting hall after RNZ searches. There It should have come to high concentrations of corrosive substances such as methane, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, which should have even eaten aluminum tubes. The hall had regularly treated the waste to be implemented by water, with the addition until the final product, the "Geostabilat" is rotten.
When employed workers, it should have come here also to health problems such as heavy Augenröten, gum infections, skin rashes, infected tonsils and corneal burns. An opinion also demonstrate a strong accumulation of excessive bacteria and fungi in the composting hall, in which people pursue their daily work.
apparently knew the workers of the MBA for months nothing of possible health hazards. Only after months they had been by the health officer of the company informed about possible hazards. Initial respiratory protective devices have been found to be unusable. Only some time later, the workers were equipped with full respiratory protection suits.
What must have been the concentration of pollutants, can be already seen from the fact that aluminum tubes said to have been the exhaust air incinerator in the composting hall for quite some time already corroded, such that they were no longer functional.
further complication is that the system is only a short time after the Operation did not work properly, and they gave the garbage after sinking of the five percolators for months "in bypass" in the composting hall. What might it have been as the proportion of hazardous substances? Even after eight weeks in the composting hall Geostabilat the final product had not reached the technical guidelines for municipal waste to the mandatory statutory values for incorporation into the landfill. Result: Thousands of tons had to be nachgerottet the open air, which also led to considerable waste stench Book in the region.
In a letter to the citizens' initiative Buchener his former U-Plus-Chairman Prof. Dr. Ing Thomas Hartkopf stressed though, for residents would be available no health hazards, but at the same time acknowledged that it had come from analysis of studies on the following basic conclusions: "As part of investigations of 125 employed in composting plants (no EnBW plants) were three workers with findings that on occupational diseases point, determined. "
Contrary to the generous promises of the energy group EnBW has already become the first releases of employees, where the MBA. At least three employees are no longer in operation. This should be employed to act on temporary contracts, which were now "on leave", even though their contracts were still ongoing. EnBW CEO Utz Claassen, however, had declared: "Our attention is now booking the staff of the MBA No one should lose his job due to the closure of the Group.."
How U-Plus said on the other hand, demand that there had been in the MBA Book at the relevant time no layoffs. "On February 15 and February 16, three persons were informed that their contracts would not be renewed time and thus the study of the normal expiry of temporary contracts end. The decision not to extend the term agreements is "not booking in connection with the closing of the MBA.
EnBW CEO Claassen added to the 80-million-euro broke in and Book Heilbronn (at both locations closed MBA) apparently can roll heads at the operating company U-Plus and accepted the responsibility themselves. So had not only U-Plus-Chairman Wolfgang Eckert take his hat. Also Th Hartkopf (59), technology chairman of EnBW Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg AG, had to leave his desk, in the official version has hard head "on his own accord and on good terms leave the company at the end of February 8, 2007 for personal reasons."
The individual responsibilities of the engineering departments have been split up for the appointment of a successor to Hart head within the EnBW Board of Management. In this case, CEO Claassen also the group for the mutual responsibility for EnBW owned U-Plus Group to take. The processing of the MBA subjects is probably explained by Claassen a top priority.
And the Heilbronner Stimme of 20 February 2007 (Dieke-statement at the bottom):
http://stimme.de/nachrichten/hohenlohekreis/art1919, 954574.html FCMS = b2914cdc8a10de45bc92d859d5e84c88
"No one will sit on the garbage
By Barbara Griesinger
the waste? goes on tour - is set completely pre
It is interesting for our part, but not us, says the managing director of waste management Hohenlohe, Silvia Fritsch Baur, that now the mechanical-biological plant (MBT) for waste treatment in book is laid completely still. She shares the fate of the Heilbronn plant in which the part is still the Hohenlohe waste treated before landfilling.
In fact, the end for both plants will not affect the Hohenlohe garbage cans. You will be emptied as it is in the Treaty, and EnBW have as operator of the plants take care of one other disposal of the waste.
"There is no one to sit on the garbage, says Raphael Dieke therefore also from the Press Department of EnBW subsidiary U-plus and also explains what happens to the waste from South Germany:" At the moment he goes to Stuttgart-Münster in the incinerator of EnBW. This is the waste portion of the Heilbronner MBA can not be treated because the waste volume is already reduced to 50 percent. Until the closure of a disposal facility concept is being developed.
is not so simple U-Plus is the explanation of why the two MBA will be decommissioned. For the idea that the mechanical-biological treatment lies at the bottom seems plausible: For household waste, the biodegradable fraction removed mechanically. This is done in machine-like Perkollatoren. Subsequently, the organic components of waste are broken down by bacteria. The energy that is produced here is used for the operation of the plant, thus to the self-energy is.
Although the trial operation worked, according to information from U-Plus both in Heilbronn as well as books, ran the regular operation is not around. Also, neighborhood complaints about odor from not torn. The final findings of the operator U-Plus will be: "An economically viable redevelopment of the facilities is not possible.
The discussion of the underlying technology is still not loud Dieke checked, but probably again need a lot of lobbying and other development work. Finally, the majority of the MBA is not round.
Compared to the MBA book appears MBA Asslar like a rest home with a shower. Routinely moved from the volunteer fire department in January and put out Bechlingen:
http://www.feuerwehr-bechlingen.de/html/2007.html
"01.28.2007, 23:20
fire Trockenstabilatanlage company Herhof
1.29 .2007, 9:20
fire alarm system Trockenstabilatanlage "
, the entry on the fire side. No gazing after dear readers, you do not need on the calendar. Of course it was the weekend, as almost always. It was Sunday night. Gremlins time.
Thoughtful Greetings from the author's collective waste-criticism
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