Steam Turbine Solutions for Waste-to-Energy (WtE) Plants
Waste-to-energy is a process by which municipal solid waste (garbage) is incinerated at high temperatures to produce steam, which then passes through a steam turbine under high pressure to create electricity. Just as coal, oil or natural gas is burned to fire boilers to create steam to generate electricity, household trash is used as a fuel to generate power.
Because the cost of the fuel in waste-to-energy facilities is virtually non-existent (in most cases, revenue can be generated from disposal of the waste), it represents a viable energy alternative to burning fossil fuels which are non-renewable and cost money.
SST-700RH – steam turbine in reheat configuration
Siemens provides industrial steam turbines which fit perfectly into this increasingly viable and popular application, particularly the SST-300, SST-400 and SST-700, in reheat and non-reheat applications. Using a reheat configuration yields some efficiency advantages, however.
Well proven steam turbines for WtE: