Showing results for: incineration regulations Articles
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Municipal Incinerator Waste
The monitoring of metal concentrations in the waste water from municipal incinerators to ensure compliance with the EU Waste Incineration ...
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WID-compliant Wessex Incineration (UK) - Case Study
This installation was Glosfume's first use of a new process designed to incorporate an innovative 'radiant heating tube' which allows fumes to cool prior to filter without the need for dilution air and/or a heat exchanger. This design has subsequently been successfully utilised on several similar rotary incinerator installations. The plant was the first to comply with strict Waste Incineration ...
By Glosfume
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Municipal Incinerator (Slovenia) - Case Study
WID and BREF-compliant EU showcase municipal incinerator in Slovenia During 2008 Glosfume was asked to supply a ceramic filter which could achieve emission levels below WID. Representing the state-of-the-art in high temperature filtration design rated at 70,589 Am3/hr @ 250 °C. The installation complies both Waste Incineration Directive (WID) and BAT Reference note (BREF) compliant and will ...
By Glosfume
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QinetiQ – Modular EU Compliant incineration package - Case Study
TodaySure™ were commissioned to construct an Integrated Battlefield Support System Incinerator as part of a Ministry of Defence funded research programme, to demonstrate that waste management can be achieved in a responsible way, compliant with challenging environmental standards. Designed to meet the stringent requirements of the EU Waste Incineration Directive, the combustion chambers, ...
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Animal & Agricultural Incinerators
Animal incinerators have a wide range of applications in businesses requiring carcass disposal and can be an effective bio-security measure for poultry, pig and sheep farms as well as veterinary practices, test centres, rendering plants, hunt kennels, zoos and pet cremation businesses. The animal incinerators’ robust design and ease of operation mean that they can be in use for many years ...
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Study Charts a Future for Waste-Derived Fuels
Pointers to possible future EU policy initiatives to give co-incineration facilities burning waste-derived fuels a strategic role in waste management have emerged in a study for the European Commission.1 The report suggests a policy focus on promoting source separation of municipal wastes, active discouragement of mass burn incinerators, and a levelling of the regulatory playing-field for ...
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Careful planning and due diligence key to incinerator projects
The need for full and proper checks surrounding contractors involved in Government incineration projects has been highlighted following a case in Kuala Lumpur. The country’s public accounts committee has claimed the implementation of four incinerator projects was not carried out properly by the Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Ministry. According to New Straits Times Online ...
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Coming along nicely our client travels from Jersey to inspect the progress of their new medical waste incinerator
We’ve often talked about how most of the waste incineration plant we manufacture is either personally customised or are bespoke projects that have been individually designed and built to meet specific requirements. When we are engineering ‘one-off’ units such as these it is quite normal for our clients to pay us a visit at our workshops in Hyde near Manchester, England just to ...
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Waste incineration really can be clean and green
Responsible incineration technology is the best environmental solution for commercial waste disposal These days commercial organisations of all sizes and across so many diverse industry sectors are coming under ever-increasing pressure to ensure that the inevitable waste matter they accumulate is disposed of in a safe, ethical and environmentally responsible manner. Many business owners and ...
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Moredun Group incinerator vital part of research centre - Case Study
Moredun Group benefits the welfare of farm animals through research. An incinerator was needed to destroy the clinical waste produced on site, to prevent a bio-security hazard. Client overview Moredun Group is a worldwide renowned animal health and welfare centre, that specialises in the research into infectious diseases of farmed livestock. In 1995, the government funded the installation of ...
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Could incinerating the plastic mountain be an answer?
Energy from waste has its appeal China’s decision to ban its recycling operations for foreign plastics has suddenly caused a massive problem for the UK government. Up until recently, Britain has been shipping up to 500,000 tonnes of plastic for recycling in China every year, which is about 25% of our total plastics waste. Now that trade has ceased and already the problem is piling up ...
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Refuse Derived Fuel, Current Practice and Perspectives
Untitled Document Summary I OBJECTIVES The objectives of the project were to undertake a survey on the current practices of production and use of refuse derived fuel (RDF) in the fifteen Member States of the European Union, as well as to undertake an overview of the legal and policy framework of RDF production and use; an assessment of the environmental impacts and of the ...
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New Regulations for Biomass and Other Alternatative Fuels
EPA completed new rules that changed the way they look at "nontraditional" fuels. Using these alternative fuels to generate energy makes a facility subject to emission limits and rules regulation boilers. In December U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) completed new rules that changed the way they look at'nontraditional" fuels. Materials that can meet the newly revised standards are ...
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Incinerator Legislation: Back To Basics
If you are considering improving the bio-security on your site by investing in an incinerator, it's useful to have up-to-date information on the regulations and legislation set by the bodies who oversee safe, ethical and efficient incineration. ...
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Incinerator Legislation: Going back to basics
Whether you already have an incinerator on site, or are considering investing into one soon, it’s useful to have up to date information on the regulations and legislation set by the bodies who oversee safe, ethical and efficient incineration. To break it down, we’ve compiled this easy-to-follow digest of everything you need to know if you’re about to purchase an incinerator. ...
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SRF – a class of its own
Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) is still classified as a waste material, not a product, despite the fact it is manufactured to a quality specification and is a resource from which energy can be recovered. Here, UNTHA UK’s alternative fuel production expert Marcus Brew considers the parameters within which SRF must be manufactured, before investigating the arguments for and against SRF being ...
By Untha UK Ltd
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What are the types of incinerators available?
Incineration is a viable alternative to Landfill. An incinerator can destroy and remove at least 99.99 percent of each harmful chemical in the waste it processes. When some extremely harmful chemicals are present, EPA requires that an incinerator show it can destroy and remove at least 99.9999 percent of contaminants in the waste. Ash remaining at the bottom of the combustion chambers likely ...
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Why high temperature combustion of landfill gas?
Due to the accumulation of knowledge and the tightening of environmental law, the landfill technology has increasingly become concerned with the management of trace compounds in landfill gas. With landfill gas, contamination is through sulphur, chlorine, fluorine, halogenated hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Other trace elements such as volatile organic compounds (VOC), impose environmental ...
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