On March 1 – 2, we were at the 7th Conference organized by CBE Poland in Warsaw. The burning of biomass and waste, and the best technologies and fuels for energy were discussed. An important element of the conference was a panel discussion in which representatives of the energy, cement and waste industries took part.

Apart from the typically biomass issues, the panel also addressed the issue of developing alternative fuels in the energy sector, including fuels produced from municipal waste – RDF.
Marek Ryński from the Połaniec power plant spoke out as the representative of the high power industry, who had already carried out attempts to develop the RDF fuel at the power plant. The hardest part, according to the interviewee, was obtaining relevant permits (including environmental ones) for such tests.

One of the guests was a representative of the Ożarów cement plant. There is no doubt that it was cement factories that were the first to decide to use the calorific fuel which is waste. In cement plants of the Ożarów group, RDF was used already in 2000, when it accounted for 0.5% of the fuel needed to produce heat for clinker burning. The cement plants gradually became convinced that RDF is a very good fuel and now its consumption in heat production is already as much as 50%.

RDF petal

Source: Own material

March 5, 2018