Waste-to-Energy Plants: Flue Gas Treatment Optimization

Challenges & Objectives

Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plants face significant operational and environmental constraints due to the variability of incoming waste and process instability.

Key challenges:

• Variability in incoming waste streams leading to unstable and unpredictable emissions
• Emission peaks and explosions causing sudden pressure fluctuations
• Risk of exceeding Emission Limit Values (ELVs), with regulatory penalties based on 30-minute compliance windows
• Overconsumption of reagents due to suboptimal control strategies
• Difficulty in anticipating process drifts and operational anomalies
• Lack of global visibility on environmental and industrial performance

Objectives :

• Sustainably reduce operating costs
• Ensure environmental compliance
• Anticipate process drifts and deviations
• Stabilize emissions
• Optimize plant control and regulation
• Establish long-term industrial performance

DV DIGITAL Solution

DV DIGITAL deployed a solution based on advanced algorithms for real-time prediction, detection, and optimization:

• Peak and explosion detection algorithms
  → automatic control loop adjustments

• End-of-day emissions forecasting algorithms
  → proactive anticipation and parameter tuning

• Global plant monitoring, including:

  • consumption

  • emissions

  • process operations

• Detection of operational anomalies

• Dynamic adaptation of algorithm parameters

• Integration with existing industrial systems:

  • DCS

  • OPC

  • REST APIs

  • HTTPS

• Centralized supervision and visualization of corrections and performance