AEB Amsterdam
Clean and valuable solutions for your
waste streams
Peter Simoes
peter.simoes@aebamsterdam.nl
September 2015
AEB Amsterdam
 Owned by Amsterdam
government
 Partners: City Districts,
participating municipalities (19)
 400 employees
 Largest single location Waste to
Energy (WtE) plant in the world
 600 waste trucks per day
 100% Renewable Energy plant
 99% of waste is reused/ recycled
 AEB Amsterdam manages ALL
waste from Amsterdam
 Highest electrical efficiency in the
world (>30%)
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Mission
“For a Clean Society, now and
in the future”
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History: Waste Management in Amsterdam
From cleaning to
sustainable recovery of
energy & materials
Amsterdam 1877
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1st Generation 1917-1969
2nd AVI Noord: 1969 -1993
97 years of experience in Waste to Energy
3rd AVI West 1993 - present
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4th WFPP 2007 - present
From 1918 till now…
4th generation:
®
WFPP
in a nutshell
Virtually
zero-discharge
Waste Fired Power Plant
Energy =
Electricity & Heat
• >30% net electrical efficiency
• 100% renewable energy
• 55% sustainable (CO2-free) energy
Waste
(endless stream;
Valuable
53% biomass)
Materials
Residues (<0.5%)
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Sand & granulate for construction
(Non)-ferrous metals
Industrial salt, gypsum ….
Our 4th generation incinerator has the High Efficiency concept
WFPP® with a globally unique net efficiency >30%
880 kWh/ton
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31,2 %
WFPP performance data
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Waste (kton)
473
490
538
530
529
Electricity (GWh)
451
471
460
458
462
Efficiency (%)
30,3
30,7
31,2
30,8
30,6
Availability (%)
91,5
92,4
92,5
92,6
93,4
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Emissions
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This concept has a negative CO2 footprint, because of the
great amount of electricity output and recovery of
materials
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14-1-2015
City of Amsterdam powered by AEB
Our Heat network in the city
• Supplying heat to companies and
households in Amsterdam
• Joint Venture with Energy company
in Amsterdam
• replace natural gas by heat from
waste saving 80% CO2 em. Per HH
• 131.000 HH connected
• Grow towards 230.000
Synergy with waste water plant
WasteWater
wastewater
TreatmentPlant
treatment plant
sludge
sludge
biogas
biogas
Waternet
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Amsterdam Waste Management, Evert Lichtenbelt
electricity
electricity
heat
heat
Waste
waste
Incineration
incineration
Plant
plant AEB
Bottom Ash
How to capture the value?
 Bottom-ash: needs mining technologies
 Joint R&D with TU Delft and Inashco
 Economically profitable (metal recovery)
 Avoiding large volume of CO2
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Green gas for transport
Today Amsterdam ranks in the top 3 of 31
global cities in the fields of Recycling and
Air Pollution.
http://www.pwc.nl/nl_NL/nl/assets/documents/pwc-amsterdam-city-of-opportunity.pdf
With an environmentally conscious population that is
world-famous for using bicycles, Amsterdam ranks
amongst the top three cities in both Recycled waste
and Air pollution, which are key factors for
Amsterdam’s top position.
Through the municipal waste and energy company
(AEB), 99% of the municipal waste is recycled and
reused in new raw materials as well as turned into
sustainable electricity and city heating.
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International Cooperation
Proposition:
* Highest efficiency and in the world * Cleanest in the world * Best R&D in the world *
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Technology exchange
Various patents
Space shuttle
Environmental goals
Co-design, build, operate, training
Consultation – feasibility – policy
Sharing R & D (including AEB’s partnerships
such as AMS – TNO – Waternet – MIT – TU
Delft – WUR)
Signing MoU SEEE – AEB
With Prime Minister Mark Rutte
2015
Strategy AEB 2018
AEB recovers four times the amount of materials form waste (58 kton  228 kton)
• Separation of MSW (20 kton plastic)
• Recovery of minerals from bootom ash (150 kton)
• Pilots to increase collection of waste : smart collection
AEB double the amount of 100% green energy (299 TJ  537 TJ)
• Digestion of Green Waste from separation : 200 kton  217 TJ
AEB remaines the largest producer of renewable energy in Amsterdam
• Maximum usage AEC and HRC: 1 mln. MWh
• Increasing delivery of heat (from 75 TJ yearly to 565 TJ in 2018)
• Steam network
• Pilot for CO2 capture and usage
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Our strategy: Towards a circular economy
Work from the bottom up
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AEB perspective 2015:
AEB: sluiten van kringlopen
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25-9-2015
AEB future perspective:
Closing the loops around Amsterdam
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R&D to stay on top;
Themes innovation programme AEB 2015 – 2018
Biomass to
energy
CO2
capturing and
delivering
Biomas to
commodities
Separation
sorting
collection
Upgrade
technical
materials
from waste
Partners in science
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Share knowledge and collaborate
Thank you for your attention
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