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Waste Incineration: How Waste-to-Energy Really Works
Incineration in the Circular Economy
Do you know how a waste-to-energy plant actually turn household waste into electricity, heat, and steam?
Philipp Böhm, Managing Director of NEEW Ventures walks through the full process at a plant in Premnitz, from the truck pulling up at the gate to energy entering the grid.
What you'll hear in this episode:
• How waste companies make money: they don't buy their fuel. They charge producers to take it off their hands.
• Why no one knows what's actually in the waste once it hits the bunker, and why that's a real operational problem.
• What comes out the other end: enough electricity for 40,000 homes, heat for a nearby city, and steam for surrounding industry, from a single plant.
This is the first episode in "Incineration in the Circular Economy," a series sponsored by NEEW Ventures.
People
Philipp Böhm, Managing Director at NEEW Ventures
https://www.linkedin.com/in/boehmphilipp/
Patrick Hypscher, Circular Business Strategist, PaaS Expert
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hypscher/
Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:16 From Product Design to Waste Incineration
3:20 The Scale of Waste-to-Energy in Germany
5:08 NEEW Ventures and the Wasteer Story
7:45 The Premnitz Plant: 300,000 Tons a Year
10:21 The Business Model of Waste Removal
14:00 The Bunker and the Role of the Crane Driver
22:18 The Control Room and the 850°C Threshold
25:03 Combustion, Slag, and What's Left Behind
29:42 Emissions, Landfill, and EU Regulation
32:09 Turning Waste into Electricity and Heat
34:29 The Reputation Problem of Waste-to-Energy
35:43 Outro
About
NEEW Ventures is a venture builder and subsidiary of EEW Energy from Waste, one of the market leaders for thermal waste treatment in Germany.
Founded in 2021 in Berlin, NEEW Ventures builds startups that use data, AI, and digital tools to create value from waste. Its portfolio includes Wasteer, which uses AI-based waste composition analysis to cut emissions and operating costs at incineration plants, and Minimise, a digital traceability platform for e-waste recycling. NEEW Ventures also runs the Circularity Hub for startups, researchers, and industry professionals, and the Waste & AI Hub (WAIH), connecting AI experts with waste industry operators. Find out more at: neew-ventures.com
Further Links
https://www.neew-ventures.com/
https://www.eew-energyfromwaste.com/
One-page Summary
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Incineration in the Circular Economy
Do you know how a waste-to-energy plant actually turn household waste into electricity, heat, and steam?
Philipp Böhm, Managing Director of NEEW Ventures walks through the full process at a plant in Premnitz, from the truck pulling up at the gate to energy entering the grid.
What you'll hear in this episode:
• How waste companies make money: they don't buy their fuel. They charge producers to take it off their hands.
• Why no one knows what's actually in the waste once it hits the bunker, and why that's a real operational problem.
• What comes out the other end: enough electricity for 40,000 homes, heat for a nearby city, and steam for surrounding industry, from a single plant.
This is the first episode in "Incineration in the Circular Economy," a series sponsored by NEEW Ventures.
People
Philipp Böhm, Managing Director at NEEW Ventures
https://www.linkedin.com/in/boehmphilipp/
Patrick Hypscher, Circular Business Strategist, PaaS Expert
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hypscher/
Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:16 From Product Design to Waste Incineration
3:20 The Scale of Waste-to-Energy in Germany
5:08 NEEW Ventures and the Wasteer Story
7:45 The Premnitz Plant: 300,000 Tons a Year
10:21 The Business Model of Waste Removal
14:00 The Bunker and the Role of the Crane Driver
22:18 The Control Room and the 850°C Threshold
25:03 Combustion, Slag, and What's Left Behind
29:42 Emissions, Landfill, and EU Regulation
32:09 Turning Waste into Electricity and Heat
34:29 The Reputation Problem of Waste-to-Energy
35:43 Outro
About
NEEW Ventures is a venture builder and subsidiary of EEW Energy from Waste, one of the market leaders for thermal waste treatment in Germany.
Founded in 2021 in Berlin, NEEW Ventures builds startups that use data, AI, and digital tools to create value from waste. Its portfolio includes Wasteer, which uses AI-based waste composition analysis to cut emissions and operating costs at incineration plants, and Minimise, a digital traceability platform for e-waste recycling. NEEW Ventures also runs the Circularity Hub for startups, researchers, and industry professionals, and the Waste & AI Hub (WAIH), connecting AI experts with waste industry operators. Find out more at: neew-ventures.com
Further Links
https://www.neew-ventures.com/
https://www.eew-energyfromwaste.com/
One-page Summary
Sign-up for the Circularity.fm Newsletter and get a summary with the take-aways of this episode. Register here: https://circularity.fm/episode/waste-incineration-how-waste-to-energy-really-works/