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HEILBRONN / DE
A new Reversepowerplant for Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke Heilbronn
Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke AG is one of the most important salt producers in Europe with sites in Heilbronn, Berchtesgaden and Bad Reichenhall. In December 2023, the company celebrated the commissioning of its new SYNCRAFT reverse power plant at its headquarters in Heilbronn. As part of its decarbonization strategy, Salzwerke is aiming to be climate-neutral by 2045. Part of this plan is the energy supply at the Heilbronn site, where a large proportion of the electricity and water supply will be sourced from the Reversepowerplant in future.
- CustomerSÜDWESTDEUTSCHE SALZWERKE AG
- System TypeCW1800x2-1000
- Electrical power 1,000 kW
- CO₂ avoided1)7,000 t/a
- CO₂ extracted 2)3,000 t/a
- Heat utilizationOwn use, district heating network
- Fuel requirement705 kg/h
- Area1,100 m²
- Commissioning2023
- 1) compared to natural gas
- 2) permanently extracted via green coal
The power plant has a total output of 1000 kW of electrical energy and 1404 kW of thermal energy. It was built on the site of the Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke. Equipped with three large drying bunkers, a moving floor bunker and the building section for the wood-fired power plant, the plant will generate a total of 8 million kilowatt hours of electricity and 11.2 million kilowatt hours of heating energy per year with around 8000 operating hours. This amount is enough to supply around 2000 households.
