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ACS has recently received United State Coast Guard (USCG) and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) approval on an entire line of marine incinerators, with units of rated capacities ranging from 65 pounds per hour (pph) to 500 pph. The incinerators have been proven to be in compliance with the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) MARPOL 73/78 and MEPC.76(40) pollution prevention standards. The MARPOL specification requires stringent limits for emissions as well as numerous operational and safety features.
The (M)CA-Series incinerators can be installed as a stand-alone units, or installed in an ISO container as a PC-Series. The PC-series incineration systems can be customized to fit nearly any application. Electrical, fuel and fire suppression options are available to meet specific customer requirements. Please contact ACS sales department at sales@acs-acs.com for additional information.
ACS has received numerous requests from both US and Canadian governments for a mobile incineration system to incinerate bird influenza infected poultry. In response, ACS has designed and developed the MIS-series to meet the governments’ requirements. Mobile Incineration Systems are available in either a batch-load configuration or as a fully automated system with automatic waste feed and ash removal to maximize throughput. For more information contact our sales department at 1.800.445.0243 or email info@acs-acs.com.
ACS has been awarded 4 contracts to provide up to 24 PC-Series incinerators. These systems will be delivered to customers in the lower 48 United States, Alaska, and Canada.
PC-Series incinerators include; (M)CA-Series incinerator, ISO shipping container with a combustion air damper and full access front door (optional rear access available), as well as a utility bulkhead. ACS’s custom utility bulkhead supplied on these self contained units provides for quick and easy connection of fuel and electrical service.
The standard ISO shipping container allows for ease of shipping through traditional and non-traditional means. An optional skid (shown equipped above) is available to facilitate transportation once on the ground at a remote site. PC-Series systems are ideal for remote areas; mines, various construction camp sites (logging, fisheries, etc.) and more. PC-Series incinerators can even be transported by Hercules aircraft to remote locations throughout the world. For marine applications the incineration systems meet all USCG, MARPOL, and ABS requirements including an optional fixed fire suppression system.
For further information, please contact ACS sales department at sales@acs-acs.com.
ACS has just complete installation and commissioning of our CA-Series incineration system for the Commonwealth Ports Authority of Saipan. This unit is capable of incinerating up to 10TPD. The incinerator is provided with automatic waste feed and ash removal, as well as a data acquisition system for control and usage auditing. Monitoring and control of the system is provided from ACS’s home office in Bellingham, WA.
Some manufacturers state incorrectly a heating value in excess of 5,000 BTU/lb. Stating higher heating values will incorrectly show increase process waste burn rates (lbs/hr) and state reduced operating costs. In the incineration industry this is called “Downsizing”. In other words, a manufacturer’s specifications state a smaller incinerator system that has a burn process rate of a much larger, correctly sized cremator.
End result is you end up with a unit that does not burn at your required burn rate or meet stated operating costs. Always ask for combustion calculations, which should state a waste heating value of 1,000 BTU/lb 1 and request a manufacturers certification and guarantee that the animal cremator is sized and a burn rate established based on a pathological material heat release of 1,000 BTU/lb 1.
If you have any question or require additional information please call us at 1-800-445-0243 or email us at info@acs-acs.com for your free copy of “Classification of Wastes”.
1 Waste, Type 4, Pathological human, animal remains.
Environmental Engineers Handbook
Volume 2, Liptak, B.G. Chilton Book Co., Radnor, PA
Incinerator Standards, Incinerator Institute of America
Animal Solids and Organic Waste, Type 4, 1,000 BTU/lb., US EPA
Handbook of Incineration Systems, Cawlin R Bruner, McGraw-Hill
The Union Leader New Hampshire, USA |
Bridgewater, Hebron build $2m incinerator By CAROL CARTER Sunday News Correspondent |
BRIDGEWATER — With an eye toward the future, residents of Bridgewater and neighboring Hebron have invested $2 million in a state-of-the-art incinerator that promises a long-term solution to their solid waste disposal. Although the start-up cost was high, selectmen believe the combined recycling and incineration process will save thousands of dollars down the road.
Tipping fees — the charge towns pay commercial landfills to take their trash — currently range from $35 to $80 per ton, according to Hebron Selectman John Matthews.
The towns generate about 450 tons of trash a year, which, along with waste wood, would cost about $100,000 to haul away. However, that cost could triple in the coming decade.
That fee will likely soar in the next decade as landfills reach capacity and trash is hauled to other states, selectmen warn.
“Towns just want to transfer their trash, but when those places are filled, the trash has got to go someplace else. We expect market rates could double in the next 10 years so we hope this will be cheaper than the alternative,” said Bridgewater Selectman Terry Murphy.
Pam Monroe, administrator of the Air Resources Division Compliance Bureau at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, said the facility exceeds anything else in the Granite State. “They are state-of-the art compared to other towns. They went above and beyond any regulatory requirements for emissions monitoring,” said Monroe.
Currently, there are commercial incinerators in operation at Claremont and Penacook with small municipal incinerators in Candia, Litchfield, Ossipee and Wilton, Monroe said.
The Bridgewater-Hebron Refuse District formed in 1975 was initially “a typical old dump,” according to Matthews. A small incinerator went online two years later but failed DES compliance tests a few years ago. Looking ahead, voters in these Newfound Lake area towns with a combined population of 1,300 residents floated a 10-year bond and gave selectmen a green light to design a new facility.
And these selectmen brought a wealth of expertise to the drawing board for free. Matthews, a retired brigadier general with the New Hampshire National Guard was joined by Murphy, a professor at Plymouth State University and Bridgewater Selectman Hank Woolner, an MIT graduate who owns a machine shop.First the trio devised a way to keep on burning while building the new facility.
“We left the old incinerator in the corner and built a temporary wall while we expanded the building. Then we decommissioned the old incinerator,” said Woolner.
But the new equipment and hazardous materials that sometimes finds its way to these facilities posed a unique problem.
“There’s a lot more to the solid waste business than people would imagine. We had to be trained so we could train other guys to run this,” said Murphy.
So the trio went back to school for what they joke is a Dumpology Degree. Now they each hold a Level Four Operator-Manager License from the DES.
They not only keep a sharp eye on the daily operation but armed with tools from Woolner’s machine shop, they make occasional adjustments. Recently, Murphy even climbed the stainless steel emissions stack to replace what Woolner calls “the device that sniffs the air.”
Throughout the project, they worked closely with construction crews and Advanced Combustion Systems of Bellingham, Wash., fitting the twin 8,000-pound burn chambers into the expanded building and installing all the environmentally sensitive equipment.
Selectmen frequently sent sketches to Washington and the firm returned computer drawings, Matthews recalls. The project, birthed in 2000, was delivered last summer.
“There was a sigh of relief when it started up,” Woolner said.
Residents in these Newfound Lake area towns have cooperated throughout the process, selectmen added.
For these 1,300 year-round residents, recycling is a habit. Metal here, trash there and plastic in another bin. Old shingles are pulverized by a Maine firm and used to surface roads. Plastics are stored inside awaiting transport to a recycler. Metals and old appliances are also recycled and waste wood is ground, mixed with trash and burned.
Prior to coming online last October, the town was spending about $60,000 annually disposing of this waste wood, according to Murphy. The new grinder will actually pay for itself in one year, he added.
Likewise, the packer to compress paper is expected to be a wash in about 18 months. “This is a business really. We want to minimize the cost and maximize the revenue,” said Murphy.
The Refuse District has a $400,000 annual budget with half that amount earmarked for the bond.
The incinerator is nowhere near capacity, operating only two and a half days a week, a little longer in the summer.
The town doesn’t plan to take in waste from other towns for money.
At the facility, Manager Gerry MacDonald and his two part-time employees weigh each bucket loader of trash before dropping it into the hopper. Two and one half tons of garbage goes in one door and 400 to 500 pounds of ash comes out the other door, MacDonald explained.
The ash is shipped to a commercial operation in Bethlehem.A computer calculates burn time and the amount of propane required for each filling. Chambers have separate burners, operating at six and one-half million BTUs.
Throughout the process, scrubbers treat gases to remove pollutants before emissions hit the stack. Although DES testing continues, emissions have been well below standards because the town doesn’t burn plastics, selectmen said.
All emissions are monitored and recorded around the clock by a sealed computer.
Wastewater from the scrubbers is pumped into an evaporator manufactured by PSI Water Systems of Hooksett. That water is boiled off and sludge moves into a steel tank. Since October, only one-half inch of sludge was produced.
Selectmen are confident the towns made the right choice. In a tourist region that triples its population each summer, this system will serve the towns for many years, they said. Devices can even be added to upgrade the system to meet future regulations.
“We built for the future,” Murphy concluded.
PRESS RELEASE | |
In a press release today, ACS, Inc. announced that it has formally registered the ACS, Inc. trademark and name, 燃洁科技 (Ran Jie Ke Ji), in China. The growing international market for an environmentally safe, hazardous waste handling process has brought continuous growth to the Bellingham based company. Offices to handle the Asian market have opened in Beijing, with eight representatives now servicing China. For more information, please contact our international sales department at intlsales@acs-acs.com |
Bulletin | California |
University of California, Davis has chosen an Advanced Combustion Systems’ incineration system for disposal of Mad Cow Disease infected bovines. The CA-1100P-TL will burn up to 750 lbs/hr. Whole bovines can be loaded at one time eliminating human exposure to contaminated waste. This system includes auto feed and ash removal, minimizing exposure to contaminated waste. Contact Mike Milnes at mike@acs-acs.com for further information. |