Residents of certain areas near the former West, Prosper-Haniel, Lippe, Auguste Victoria and Ost mines are entitled to file claims for the period from 2008 until the closure of the relevant mine. Underground coal mining in the Ruhr region resulted in repeated tremors at the ground surface on some occasions. The frequency, temporal density and intensity varied depending on the ...

A new and highly efficient combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant in Herne/Germany, will secure the supply of electricity and heat in the heart of the Ruhr area in the future (Figure 1). The new power plant will use the principle of combined heat and power generation (CHP), is therefore particularly resource-friendly, and in the future will replace the ...

Sonthofen, Germany, 01 April 2020. After winning an international tender, BHS-Sonthofen was commissioned with constructing the largest mixer in the company’s history (Figure 2). An Indian zinc mine operator required a mixer with a very large filling capacity. The proven Combimix system with overflow was custom-built by BHS-Sonthofen in this extraordinary size and shipped off to India. Ease of maintenance, ...

STEAG New Energies GmbH, Saarbrücken/Germany, and the Zweckverband Geo-wärme Erding (Erding Geothermal Energy Association) are expanding the existing Erding 1 combined heat and power plant, which will enable up to 18 % of the total heating requirements of the Bavarian district town of Erding to be covered by geothermal energy in the future (Figure 1). This climate-friendly method will also supply the Erding ...

The energy demand for heating and lighting in Germany has decreased in the last ten years (Figure 1). According the current calculations by the Working Group on Energy Balances (AG Energiebilanzen), the heating demand in 2018 was 17 % lower than in 2008. A significant proportion of this change is due to temperature differences between the two years. After compensating for ...

The year 2019 was the turning point for renewable energy projects at remote mines. More than a dozen projects were commissioned or announced. Mining companies have adopted solar and wind power to reduce their energy cost and carbon footprint in a rather lengthy process. In the last years, successful flagship projects have removed concerns about production loss and independent power ...

With regards to work safety, health- and environmental protection the enterprise WESTKALK Vereinigte Warsteiner Kalksteinindustrie GmbH & Co. KG, Warstein/Germany, is planning to install an own extraction system for limestone spillage in their jet mill at the factory in Kallenhardt (Figure 1). This is supposed to improve the plant’s cleanliness and reduce dust exposure for staff members and surroundings long-term. ...

Florian Eckert has managed the industrial compressed air segment at Atlas Copco Kompressoren und Drucklufttechnik GmbH in Essen/Germany since 1st February 2020. Eckert previously worked as Marketing Manager for industrial compressed air.

Two heads of department retired from the district government on 31st January 2020: Bernd Müller, Head of Department 5 (Environment and Occupational Health and Safety), and Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner, Head of Department 6 (Mining and Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia).

Wolf Merkel started work as the full-time Member of the Board of Management responsible for water at the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW) in Bonn on 3rd February 2020. Merkel had been unanimously appointed at a committee meeting in November 2019. His division of the Management Board also includes responsibility for several support functions and ...