Patent ID: 7343866

Claim:
A method of operating a waste incineration plant, in which method prolonged overloading on account of an unhindered increase in a waste feed during the incineration of waste having a low calorific value (HO) is prevented by adapting a steam output setpoint (DS) of a primary combustion control (FLR), wherein, starting from at least two input signals, namely a waste weight (MG) applied to a charging system of the waste incineration plant and a predetermined maximum waste throughput (MDmax), the steam output setpoint (DS), for further processing in the primary combustion control (FLR), is adapted in such a way that, at an averaged waste throughput (gMD) which is determined as a function of the waste weight (MG) and is greater than a limit value dependent upon the maximum waste throughput (MDmax), the steam output setpoint (DS) is reduced.