About us
Volker Grotefeld
Studied Supply Engineering with a focus on municipal and environmental engineering at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, graduated in 1992 as Dipl.-Ing., VDI sponsorship prize for the diploma thesis: "Investigations on slag melting for emission reduction in household waste incineration" (large-scale melting of waste without external energy supply in the waste incineration plant Basel I (built 1943).
1992 - 1996 Engineering company Küpat: among other things
- New construction of the Basel III waste incineration plant, dismantling of the Basel I waste incineration plant,
- Optimization of the waste incineration plant in Biel (waste incineration and sewage treatment plant),
- Various designs for the Oftringen waste incineration plant; studies on cadaver incineration.
- Funding from the Swiss National Fund for research into residue treatment in waste incineration plants and waste incineration plants.
Sweco GmbH (formerly AEW Plan, Grontmij): In addition to various management positions - most recently as Managing Director responsible for the Business Area Water & Energy since 2017 - project management in numerous projects such as
- New construction of flue gas cleaning, waste boilers, turbines, ACC, Demin plant, waste cranes, etc. at the Solingen waste incineration plant
- New construction of biomass-fired power plants in Bergkamen (fluidised bed) and Düsseldorf-Garath (grate)
- New construction of Trianel coal-fired power plant in Lünen & Uerdingen (800 MWel)el)
- GuD-Anlagen der Trianel in Krefeld (1.200 MWel) und der Stadtwerke Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf (Block A (100 MWel) und Block F (600 MWel))
- Industrial cogeneration plant (IHKW) Hermes
- RDF-cogeneration plant in Bernburg (552,000 Mg/a RDF)
- New extraction-condensation turbine (26 MWel) with ACC at DK in Duisburg
- Bunker expansion with new waste and slag cranes at MHKW Leverkusen
- New waste-to-energy plants in Białystok, Konin, Olsztyn, Rzeszów, Szczecin (Stettin) and Warsaw (Poland)
- Waste incineration plant in Ma'ale Adumim (Israel)
- RDF CHP Chalampé (France)