Hafner Srl
The HAFNER group provides full engineering and turn-key construction expertise for incineration plants with thermal recovery from hazardous waste, MSW and biomass. HAFNER has been active for about 40 years in the field of waste incineration, with detailed experience in all facets of complex incineration plant development – from waste management techniques, to energy recovery in the form of hot water, steam and electrical power.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Waste to Energy
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
About Us
The Hafner company generally provides a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in each of the areas critical to the success of the design and construction of the special waste incinerator and the training of its staff.
Upon careful analysis of the technical specifications in any given tender, the Hafner management gains a clear understanding of the requirements and full ability to provide an effective solution that can match the expected requests.
The solutions proposed by Hafner are be based on proven engineering technologies that have been field-tested in nearly fourty years of company activity, using a combination of advanced design along with tried and tested systems.
Hafner's Main Activities
Engineering
Hafner plans Waste To Energy systems from the basic engineering to the detail engineering.
Construction Workshop
Hafner works with mechanical workshops that manufacture plant parts.
Erection on Site
Hafner has its own and external assembly teams who assemble the complete plant system on site.
Commissioning
Hafner brings the system into operation and carries out training of staff in the waste to energy plant .
Mission
Creating sensible and economically viable solutions to global warming and CO2 dispersion, while creating usable energy with Energy from Waste.
Research and Development Waste to Energy
The potential of methods used to improve conditions and the combustion process management is not yet exhausted.
Future developments are to be realized, in particular, in the combination of measures for the global optimization of various sub-activities.
Hafner owns its own research facility, which is always dedicated to the research and development of new technologies, such as is used to improve combustion and flue gas emissions.
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Purpose of our research is at this time especially in the deepening of the ultrasonic waves input technology in the combustion process, choosing the best system on the applicable market for the experimentation campaigns of this project; in order to find the best balance and homogeneity of combustion gases, their volumetric reduction, the reduction of NOx formation. This will as a result best influence residence time, turbulence and the fumes temperature (850°C – 1200°C).
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This research also includes the deepening of the acoustic wave injection technology in the combustion process which serves to improve the oxidation of the combustion gases.
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The paradigms and the architectures of the remote control systems of thermal plants are increasingly approaching those adopted for corporate information systems, the monitoring and supervision functions are extended with business process management (BPM) and business intelligence (BI) functions , the tools and control technologies are integrated with decision support systems, thanks to the speed of data transmission over the Internet.
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The current panorama sees the coexistence of the classical “monolithic” telecontrol systems, of the most recent distributed systems whose architecture provides for different types of stations (processing units, communication front end, operator station, etc.), and its modern “service oriented” systems, in which the telecontrol system, integrating with higher level platforms, provides vertical services via the cloud, in PaaS mode.
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A top-down approach or, otherwise guided by the technological innovation of the web 3.0 and of cloud computing, has very significant impacts on the traditional architectures of the local plant control systems, while a bottom-up approach favors the integration of new ICT technologies keeping the focus on the reliability, availability and safety characteristics of real-time systems.