The TAV Ludwigslust waste incineration plant makes an important contribution to sustainable waste management for approximately 240,000 citizens from the municipal districts of Ludwigslust and Parchim. At its sites in Ludwigslust, TAV collects enormous amounts of waste that is continuously compressed and prepared for further transport to the incinerators. This activity is not without danger, as there is a constant risk of spontaneous combustion. To prevent the development of spontaneous fires in the waste piles, TAV Ludwigslust opted to invest in proven hot-spot detection technology and now monitors the plant with thermal imaging cameras from FLIR Systems.
Since mid-2005, TAV has been thermally treating 50,000 tons of household waste from the districts of Ludwigslust and Parchim as well as sorting residue from industrial waste. This means that the waste is incinerated and energy released in the process is reused. TAV Ludwigslust is a conventional waste incineration plant with a capacity of 50,000 tons per year and is active 24 hours a day. The gross heat output of 16 MW is currently converted into electricity, thus providing TAV with a net feed-in capacity of 2.1 MW.
