Comef has favored, among its many constructive fields, the sector of waste to energy plants.
Our waste to energy plants are an important source of energy for national and international countries.
Agricultural waste, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, preparation and processing of fruit, vegetables, cereals, edible oils, cocoa, coffee, tea, tobacco, the production of canned food, wood processing and its derivatives, of the production and processing of paper and cardboard, packaging is some of the waste that is recovered energetically in our plants to produce electric energy and heat for industrial processes and civil services (district heating and cooling).
Comef plants energetically recover municipal solid waste (MSW) and refuse derived fuel (RDF), solid fuels derived from the mechanical treatment of undifferentiated waste.

Our plants transform the biomass waste energy into thermal energy and therefore into electric energy; the process is called ‘generation’. In our systems the residual heat of this process is still recovered, the hot water started up in pipes that transport it to the utilities for civil or industrial heating and / or cooling uses; the process is called ‘cogeneration’ (which simultaneously produces electric energy and heat) or ‘trigeneration’ (which simultaneously produces electric energy, heat and cooling energy) which gives rise to district heating and / or district heating-cooling systems.
District heating systems from cogeneration plants enable greatest global energy efficiency to be achieved; in fact, the power plant is able to produce electric energy and recover at the same time the thermal energy released in the thermodynamic process.

Waste to energy plants are complex technology plants, equipped with sophisticated continuous control systems and efficient environmental safeguards.
At present, waste to energy plants are absolutely safe, both for man and for the environment; just think that the emissions into the atmosphere are also tens of times lower than those of the fossil fuel and cement plants and, for some parameters, they are even lower than the boilers fired by wood and pellets.