Industrial and Hazardous Waste Incineration

Incineration is employed to thermally destroy combustible organics: generated as hazardous wastes, plant residues, or secondary treatment plant sludges. Incinerators are used to destroy combustible hazardous wastes, manufacturing wastes and residues, and treatment plant sludges. Waste storage facilities assure a continuous and consistent feed supply to the incinerator to maintain a stable combustion reaction. Storage is part of a feed preparation system, which can include pretreatment, conditioning, and blending. Incineration is commonly associated with destruction of high organic content wastes with heating values adequate to sustain the combustion reaction. The health risks associated with incinerator exhaust combustion products and incomplete products of combustion are constantly being evaluated and debated. Because of these and other complexities, designing an incineration system requires an understanding of the total combustion system and its related components. The primary function of an incinerator is reducing the volume of bulk wastes or converting regulated waste components to less hazardous secondary compounds.