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Waste-to-Energy Plants When Waste Becomes Data

Source: Press release | Translated by AI 5 min Reading Time

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Martin GmbH has been building thermal waste plants for energy generation for over 100 years. Today, state-of-the-art data streams also flow there. With the Stackable Data Platform, the company uses IoT knowledge for clean emissions.

Waste incineration is much more than fire and rust. Whether it's the watermelon season in Azerbaijan or fluctuating waste mixes - for the experts at Munich-based Martin GmbH, such complex factors are part of global daily business.(Image: Martin Ltd.)
Waste incineration is much more than fire and rust. Whether it's the watermelon season in Azerbaijan or fluctuating waste mixes - for the experts at Munich-based Martin GmbH, such complex factors are part of global daily business.
(Image: Martin Ltd.)

In 1925, engineer Josef Martin had an ingenious idea: he had been in the waste incineration industry for twenty years and knew exactly that fuels ignite more easily if embers are used that are already present. With the technology of the time, however, this was difficult—the so-called feed grates carried the waste together with the embers towards the exit with every movement, and the employees had to carry them back by hand in dangerous and sweaty work.

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