Anyone taking a harbor tour in Hamburg is sure to notice them: the distinctive digestion towers of the Hamburg wastewater treatment plant. The plant not only purifies all of the city's wastewater, but also uses it to generate electricity with a generator converting the digested gases rising from the sewage sludge into energy. Three wind turbines and a large photovoltaic system are also part of Hamburg’s wastewater treatment plant. In total, it even produces more electricity than it needs for its operation. To ensure that the interaction of these energy generators runs smoothly, Hamburg’s wastewater treatment plant relies on active filters from Reinhausen.
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Transformer manufacturers
- South America's champions of the energy transition
- Traction Transformers – Future on the Rail
- Time of the giants: XXL transformers for more power
- "Reinhausen is ready to deliver!"
- Oversized de-energized tap-changers
- The most powerful transformers in the world for a 1,100 kV HVDC line in China
- "We are in a growth market with the VRDT"
- Digitalization turnaround: GANZ Intelligent Solutions relies on cooperation with MR
- "Transitioning to a solution provider presents a major opportunity for transformer manufacturers – and digitalization can help!"
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Digitalization
- How AI can lend a hand
- myReinhausen: MR's central digital customer platform
- Why data centers (may) never fail
- Automation? (Cyber-) Secure!
- Globally unique: MESSKO® MTRAB® dehydrating breather communicates via cell phone app
- Remote Solutions: Professional help from a distance
- "Digitalization of the power grids will only work with comprehensive security measures"
- Why are you digitizing your transformers? Three questions for Rúnar Svavar Svavarsson.
- Six challenges, six solutions – Intelligent sensors for safe transformers
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Energy transition
- 5 theses on the energy transition
- The VRDT is the ideal solution to solve voltage problems in our distribution grids
- Making transformers more sustainable
- 940 tons of power regulation
- Sunny prospects: Municipal solar storage devices
- Four reasons why regulated distribution grids are the future
- "The energy transition is taking place in the distribution grids"
- Five theses on the future of power grids
- Storage at all network levels
- Test systems for the energy revolution
- Climate change, energy revolution and the future of power grids?
- A new design for utility poles
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Wind and solar power
- The North Sea as Europe's green power plant
- Sahara electricity - safe for the island
- Are wind farms the new power plants?
- Direct current at all grid levels
- The MSCDN plant – the new "power plant generator" for stable grids
- Clean power grid with high-frequency filters
- Weatherproof cable testing for offshore wind parks
- VRDTs for Australia's distribution grids
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Lifetime optimization
- Precise condition assessment of transformers with TESSA® APM
- Digital transformer check - MR provides training at thyssenkrupp's steelworks
- How ISO 55000 facilitates asset management
- Clever fleet management for transformers
- Retrofit: Bushing monitoring for phase shifters
- Retrofit: Breathing new life into old transformers thanks to new tap changers
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Waste water generates energy
Recycling something which has already been used is one of the most important principles of sustainability. Hamburg is implementing this on a grand scale, with its wastewater treatment plant also generating electricity for the plant as well as for Hamburg’s residents.
Waste water generates energy
Recycling something which has already been used is one of the most important principles of sustainability. Hamburg is implementing this on a grand scale, with its wastewater treatment plant also generating electricity for the plant as well as for Hamburg’s residents.
Secure grid – power for all
The previously thickened sewage sludge is stored in a total of ten digesters, and the thermal energy generated by the digester gases is converted into electricity which is used to supply the sewage treatment plant. Some of the gas is also processed and fed into the public grid as bio-methane. In addition to the energy from the digester gases, the wind turbines belonging to the wastewater treatment plant generate up to three megawatts of power and the plant also has a 1,300-square-meter photovoltaic system, which contributes to the power supply. This makes Hamburg’s wastewater treatment plant one of the most modern in Europe.
To ensure that not only the wastewater is cleaned, but also the power grid, GRIDCON® active filters, which reduce harmonics and improve the perfomance factor at a system voltage of 690V, have been reliably in use since 2014. Thanks to their integrated voltage regulation, no current transformer is required, and the broadband filtering prevents additional heating of operating equipment. And if the requirements of the Hamburg sewage treatment plant change in the future, the filters can be expanded accordingly on a modular basis.
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