Commissioning of Sandreuth biomass heating power plant

The services provided by KAM included engineering, procurement, construction and test operation of the power plant.

Representing KAM in its role as general contractor, KAM Managing Director Alexander Gremm and Alfons Weber, Head of Energy and Environmental Technology, handed over the key to the plant in a symbolic gesture on 6 July. (Left to right, our photo shows Norman Villnow, Managing Director of N-ERGIE Kraftwerke GmbH, Alexander Gremm, Alfons Weber and Joseph Hasler, Chairman of the Board of N-ERGIE AG.)

The biomass heating power plant is fired using wood chips from forest residues and produces both electricity (6 MW) and district heating (13.9 MW) in a combined heat and power process. The plant has an efficiency rating of approximately 85 percent.

The complete integration of the new plant into the existing power plant site was accompanied by extremely limited space for the construction and installation phase, which meant that this project posed a particular challenge for KAM.

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 heating condenser in the existing building. In addition to district 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.