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Product Specifications : Medical Waste Incinerator
Medical Waste Incinerator, Incinerator
Specifications-type Pyrolytic combustion
Construction requirements of the incinerator-Incinérateur Gas or electric and designed to
Minimize noise during operation
Prevent the release of black smoke and fine dust during loading and operation of waste
Allow for regular and complete combustion of the waste
Allow automatic operation requiring little, if any monitoring and ensuring optimal and safe operation
Provide limited consumption of gas or electricity
Provide fire safety for the entire installation
Install a protective shelter of the incinerator.rated
Capacity-Incinérateurs Capacity of at least 5 to 7 kg / h
Temperature combustion and post-combustion
Combustion temperature: at least 900 ° C- After burner temperature: at least 1100 ° C.Range and operating time-Operation Optimal and uninterrupted for at least 06 hours in a row.
Quality of treatment-Fumée Emitted less harmful and whitish
General Design-Ensure Maximum protection and operator safety.-provide A fume extraction device
Combustion-Set The combustion chamber between 900 and 1000 ° C-Non Combustion with a thermometer probe and numerically displaying its inner temperature.atmospheric emissionsAtmospheric emissions will be done according to the rules and standards:Concentrations in mg / Nm3 of flue gas reported at 11% oxygen
Substances:Daily averages:- Total Dust: 10-30- Organic in the state of gas or vapor, expressed as total organic carbon (TOC) substances:: 10 – 15- Hydrogen chloride (HCl): 10-15- Hydrogen fluoride (HF): 1-3- Sulphur dioxide (SO2): 50-60- Carbon monoxide (CO): 50-90-Speed Injection of greater than 8 m / sec air emissions.
Related SERVICES-the Delivery of the incinerator must be accompanied by the provision of a number of services.Installation of the incineratorFlush and startup of the incinerator on the site in accordance with requirements prescribed by it.formation- Trained in the use and preventive maintenance of the incinerator of the manipulator (operator incinerators.Toolbox and wear parts-Provide Toolkits for maintenance-Provide A toolkit for each incineratorwarranty-At Least one (01) year from the date of delivery.-Take Into account the replacement of defective parts or any other book accompanying the delivery of the incinerator

People living and working in Nunavut often have limited options available for cost effective and environmentally sound

management of household and other solid waste. The widespread presence of permafrost, lack of adequate cover material and

remote locations make open burning and incineration a common and widespread practice to reduce the volume of solid waste and

make it less of an attractant to wildlife.  A wide variety of combustion methods are used ranging from open burning on the

ground to high temperature dual-chamber commercial incinerators.  Generally, high temperature incinerators are more expensive

to purchase and operate and cause less pollution than do the less expensive and lower temperature methods.  However, high

temperature incinerators can safely dispose of a wider variety of waste than can the lower temperature open burning methods.

The Guideline for the Burning and Incineration of Solid Waste (the Guideline) is not intended to promote or endorse the

burning and incineration of solid waste. It is intended to be a resource for traditional, field and commercial camp

operators, communities and others considering burning and incineration as an element of their solid waste management program.

It examines waste burning and incineration methods that are used in Nunavut, their hazards and risks and outlines best

management practices that can reduce impacts on the environment, reduce human-wildlife interactions and ensure worker and

public health and safety. This Guideline does not address incineration of biomedical waste, hazardous waste and sewage

sludge. The management of these wastes requires specific equipment, operational controls and training that are beyond the

scope of the current document.

The Environmental Protection Act enables the Government of Nunavut to implement measures to preserve, protect and enhance the

quality of the environment. Section 2.2 of the Act provides the Minister with authority to develop, coordinate, and

administer the Guideline.

The Guideline is not an official statement of the law. For further information and guidance, the owner or person in charge,

management or control of a solid waste is encouraged to review all applicable legislation and consult the Department of

Environment, other regulatory agencies or qualified persons with expertise in the management of solid waste.

The Ebola outbreak has arrived from the other side of the world to the Lone Star State. Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the deadly disease in the USA, died at a Dallas hospital on October 8, according to a report in USA Today. He carried the virus from Liberia to Dallas.

A Texas incinerator has destroyed drums loaded with items believed to have been contaminated by Duncan with Ebola in a report that appeared in The Austin American-Statesman. Veolia North America says the drums taken from a Dallas apartment where Duncan became ill were destroyed Friday at the company’s incinerator in nearby Port Arthur. His health care worker Nina Pham also contracted Ebola even though she wore protective gear while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the deadly disease in the USA.

With Ebola so prominently featured in the news, some Orange County residents may wonder what plans and procedures local emergency personnel have to respond to an outbreak.
Amanda Moore, Orange County Public Health Emergency Preparedness Planner, said the county has plans in place for all infectious diseases including Ebola. Moore said the procedures for infectious disease-like symptoms is to notify and inform emergency and medical personnel, contain the disease, take precautions, protect the public and disseminate vaccines.

There is also personal protective equipment for first responders.

She added she has been communicating with local, regional and state planning officials since the Ebola outbreak. Jeff Kelley, Emergency Management Coordinator for Orange County, said Moore’s job is to respond to public health outbreaks. He said Moore has been speaking with public health officials, hospitals, nursing homes and coordinating through daily conference calls to combat the Ebola threat. “We’re watching this very, very closely,” he said.

Kelley also added hospitals have their own emergency operating procedures. Jarren Garrett, chief administrative office for Baptist Orange Hospital, stated the hospital will follow the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention guidelines for all patients presenting to the hospital with Ebola symptoms. 

The CDC statement reads those who have traveled to West Africa in the last three weeks or who had close contact with someone who has traveled to West Africa and was ill or is known to be infected with Ebola and who have the following signs and symptoms:
Fever greater than 101.5 and at least one of the following:
Severe headache
Muscle or joint pain
Diarrhea and/or vomiting
Abdominal pain
Unexplained bleeding

Lee Anne Brown, assistant chief with the Orange Fire Department and the city’s emergency coordinator, said they are taking universal precautions. “We provide gloves and masks with face shields,” Brown said. “Acadian Ambulance Service carries body suits. We follow decontamination procedures.”

Brown said she’s been keeping up with the latest news on the outbreak.

She also cautioned that it’s the start of flu season and people need to protect themselves by washing their hands well and covering their sneezes and coughs as best one can.

by: http://therecordlive.com/2014/10/14/oc-emergency-officials-have-plans-for-infectious-diseases/

HAI PHONG (VNS)— A medical waste incinerator in Hai Phong built by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) and the Japan International Co-operation Agency in Viet Nam (JICA) completed its trial phase on Thursday.
Constructed in January, the US$600,000 incinerator has been operational since March with initial test results collected by the Hai Phong Urban Environment One Member Limited Company (URENCO) indicating that the incinerator satisfied most of the requirements set out in the 2012 Viet Nam Environmental Standards by MONRE.

“The incinerator is going to be of great assistance to the city’s effort to manage and process medical waste,” said Le Ngoc Tru, director of URENCO.

The Hai Phong Department of Health estimated the city’s hospitals created around 7,500 kg of medical waste per day, of which 800kg was solid toxic waste.

The city’s old incinerator built in 2002 is now outdated and not designed to process such a large amount of medical waste.

Tru said the incinerator built with the latest Japanese technology offered more than three times the capacity at 200kg per hour for 50 per cent less fuel consumption compared to the old incinerator.

It is also safer for workers to operate due to its automatic waste handling system that allows workers to process waste from a safe distance.

However, test results from water used for the incinerator did not meet Vietnamese standards and needed to be collected and processed separately in the nearby Trang Cat industrial waste treatment compound.

Air and water from neighbouring areas were also tested and came back with satisfactory results.

Kimura Mitsumasa, director of the Industrial Waste Association from Fukushima, said medical waste had to be labelled and transported using specific vehicles and trained workers.

Phung Chi Sy from VITTEP, a HCM City-based environment institute, said workers should be trained and able to categorise medical waste to maximise the incinerator’s efficiency by creating optimal mixtures of waste for the burning process.

Masuda Chikahio, senior representative of JICA Viet Nam, said the project, funded with Japanese Official Development Assistance, was part of a larger programme to encourage small-to-medium-size Japanese companies to transfer technology to Viet Nam.

At a seminar to evaluate the project’s trial phase on Thursday, representatives from other provinces’ health and environment sectors showed interest in the application of the incinerator. — VNS

by: http://vietnamnews.vn/environment/261890/hai-phong-trials-waste-incinerator.html

PESHAWAR:
Even with clear rules which state hospital waste must be incinerated within 24 hours of its collection, incinerators at two major hospitals in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) are out of order and the waste is dumped outside the hospitals.

According to data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 15 to 20 tons of hospital waste is generated daily in the provincial capital alone. Almost half of the total waste is recycled while the rest is collected by the Peshawar Development Authority (PDA).

LRH

“To be honest, we have one incinerator which is not in proper working condition and hardly disposes a quarter of the total waste generated,” said an official at Lady Reading Hospital while requesting anonymity. “But we have a new incinerator which will soon be functional.”

The official, who did not know the exact figure of the waste generated, said LRH has been among the well-equipped hospitals across the country. It has over 5,000 people (at least 3,000 in outpatient and 2,000 in accident and emergency departments) from across the province on a daily basis.

“The incinerator under process has some issues as a few of its parts are yet to be obtained,” said the official. “It also needs sufficient gas—another major problem—but we are in contact with Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL).”

The LRH official added the supply of gas to the hospital is not enough for sterilisation. He said the hospital administration is in contact with SNGPL authorities and the issue will soon be resolved.

HMC

Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) Chief Executive Dr Mumtaz Marwat said the incinerator at HMC is out of order but it does burn some waste. “The leftover is collected by the PDA and the hospital administration has approved Rs0.4million for a new incinerator, which will soon be installed.”

Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) Chief Executive Dr Inayat Shah Roghani said the incinerator at KTH was working properly and recycles over 200 kilogrammes of waste per hour.

“Along with the solid waste generated by KTH, we also recycle waste that comes from a few private hospitals in University Town,” said Roghani.

The EPA has already sent a written notice to the health directorate, asking it to properly dispose of medical waste as mentioned under Hospital Waste Management Rules 2005. These say the responsibility of waste management lies solely with the institute that generated it.

What happens next

Even if the incinerators at these hospitals are repaired, the problem of unattended dump is likely to persist. This is mostly because of the small private health centres which lack the basic knowledge and dispose of their waste as ‘municipal waste’. The ever-increasing number of such centres is directly proportional to the waste generated, making it a threat for the environment as at times the waste is just left in a pile or buried to groundwater.

PORT ARTHUR – Veolia Environmental Services will temporarily store the ash from Ebola virus-contaminated material that it incinerated late last week at its Port Arthur site because a hazardous waste landfill in Louisiana won’t accept it as long as politicians there contend it might be unsafe, Veolia’s general manager said on Monday.

“Waste Management asked us not to send it at this time,” Mitch Osborne said, referring to the Chemical Waste Management landfill in Carlyss, La.

“The contaminants were destroyed. It’s in safe storage where it will continue to be. It’s not urgent to send it out. We’ll wait for the politics and the emotion to settle down,” Osborne said.

Osborne said other waste was burned with the virus-contaminated material, adding it’s not possible to sort through the resulting ash and isolate what was from the Dallas apartment and the other waste Veolia accepts daily.

Veolia burned 140 drums this past Thursday and Friday that contained contents from the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, infected with Ebola in West Africa, had lived immediately before hospitalization in Dallas.

Duncan died last week, and his remains were cremated on Friday.

Veolia accepted the six truckloads of material from Duncan’s apartment on a contract with the Texas Department of State Health Services for incineration.

On Monday, Louisiana’s attorney general declared he would seek a restraining order to prevent shipment of the ash residue to the Carlyss landfill.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell said in an email that, “It is absurd to transport potentially hazardous Ebola waste across state lines. This situation is certainly unprecedented, and we want to approach it with the utmost caution. We just can’t afford to take any risks when it comes to this deadly virus.”

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines say, “Ebola-associated waste that has been appropriately inactivated or incinerated is no longer infectious.”

Texas health authorities and officials with the CDC supervised the decontaminating, bagging and shipping of the material from the Dallas apartment to Veolia, where the state and federal officials also observed the transfer from the trucks into the Veolia incinerator.

by: http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Veolia-to-store-Ebola-ash-until-the-politics-5821450.php