Szablyár Péter: Sky-high - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2007)
Smokestacks
■ The tower oh the refuse treatment plant poned. Designated as its site was ifjú Gárda (formerly and at present Károlyi Sándor) út in District XV on a northern but easily accessible fringe of Budapest. The annual amount of 350 thousand tons of refuse was meant to be burnt in a four- grill furnace imported from Czechoslovakia. Besides producing 136 thousand Megawatt-hours of electric energy, the plant yielded heating steam, too, and an annual amount of 10 to 13 tons of metal. Even state-of-the-art (electrostatic) dust collectors were designed for the 120 metre tall chimney. The incinerator started to work in 1981, but soon enough it turned out that flue gases were insufficiently cleansed of certain pollutants, and thus the plant had to be modernised. The investment made in 2002-05, the most significant of its kind in Hungary, increased combustion capacity to 420 thousand tons per annum, which is tantamount to 65—70 percent of ail the refuse produced in Budapest. Due to the pollution control system, the composition of the gases exhausted through the stack meets the strictest environmental requirements. 56
