The waste-to-energy plant Spittelau in Vienna is located in the heart of the Austrian capital and was designed by the artist Hundertwasser. For more than 50 years now, the waste incineration plant with a total installed capacity of 460 MW has supplied Viennese households with district heating and makes an important contribution to waste disposal and resource utilization.
Wien Energie relies on the latest technologies to ensure continuous operation of the plant.
Wien Energie wanted the Spittelau plant to become a modern and digitized plant, one that is mostly hardware-independent. The control system, which was no longer up to date, needed to be replaced in order to take full advantage of the benefits of digitization and advanced control concepts.
In order to become less reliant on specific components and thus keep maintenance costs as low as possible, the control system needed to be virtualized as well. This task was facilitated by the fact that Wien Energie has its own data center on the site.
The company required an accurate way to simulate plant processes, both to test new engineering functions and for training purposes.
