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Auto Feed System Added to PC-Series
ACS has added the RC-6 Series Auto Feed Ram System to the PC-150 thru PC-500 containerized Batch Fed Incineration Systems. With the addition of the RC-6 Auto Feed System, waste can be fed to the incinerator up to 24 hours a day. More information on the RC series Auto Feed Ram Systems can be found here. |
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Waste Oil Injection System - WIS Series
ACS has added an optional Liquid Waste Injection System to the PC-Series containerized incineration systems. The Waste Oil Injection System is a stand alone (waste oil only) or a dual burner fuel packaged unit, which has one primary burner using auxiliary fuel and one burner using waste oil. The Waste Oil System can be used on the PC-150 thru PC-500. More information on the WIS series Liquid Waste Injection System can be found here.
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ACS Develops Portable Utility Container System
ACS has developed a Portable Utility Container system (PUC) for the PC-Series containerized incineration systems. With the addition of the optional PUC system, the PC-Series and PUC combination is truly self contained. Power generation, fuel and water storage are provided with no additional utilities required. The complete PC incinerator and PUC can be on line within 1-Day. All equipment is tested prior to shipment to insure a successful on- site installation and start- up. Please contact ACS sales
department at sales@acs-acs.com for
additional information.
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ACS ships it’s 100th PC-Series System
ACS has shipped its 100th shipment of its PC-Series, Portable Containerized Incineration System. This makes this series the most popular units manufactured by ACS in recent years. With the introduction of this series less than three years ago, customers from around the world have helped us achieve this milestone. Click here to review and receive additional information on ACS’s PC-Series.
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ACS Develops the Portable Waste Oil Containerized Systems
ACS now offers (3) Waste Oil Incineration models with throughputs ranging from 30 GPH to 70 GPH, which can be put online in less than a day. Other than power and waste oil the system is ready for operation. More information on the WOI series Waste Oil incinerators can be found here. |
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ACS sold 30 CA-Series Incineration Systems
ACS has sold 30 CA-Series Incineration Systems to the US Army USAGE ranging in sizes from CA-300 thru CA-1500; these units will burn over 200,000 pounds (90,909 kilos) of municipal waste per day. More information on the CA series incinerator systems can be found here. |
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ACS receives US Coast Guard and ABS Approvals
ACS has received US Coast Guard and ABS approval and now offers three MAC models, MAC-150, MAC-200, and MAC-400 Marine Incineration Systems. ACS is the only US Manufacture to receive theses approvals for Air Cooled Incineration Systems with Sludge Waste Disposal. The MAC-Series can be provided with Batch, Manual or Hydraulic Feedram Systems. Sludge Injection System is optional. More information on the MAC series incineration systems can be found here.
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First MAC-200 Marine Incineration System ships
ACS has shipped its first MAC-200 Marine Incineration System to Marinette marine Corp. ACS is the only US incinerator manufacturer approved by the US Coast Guard and ABS to Manufacture marine incinerators with a Sludge Injection System. More information on the MAC series incineration systems can be found here. |
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US Marine Corps Purchases 35 PC-500 Incinerators
ACS has been awarded a contract for 35 PC-500 Units complete with Automatic Feedrams and Waste Oil Injection Systems. |
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US Army Selects ACS to Supply 15 incinerators
The US Army has chosen ACS to supply 15 PC-500 incineration systems. |
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US Army Corps of Engineers orders 20 incinerators
US Army Corps of Engineers has purchased 20 PC-400 batch units. 4 units pictured installed at Jalalabad, Afghanistan |
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Iraq Ministry of health purchase 8 incinerators
ACS has been awarded a contract to supply 8 CA-300to the Iraqi Ministry of Health in Bagdad, Iraq. |
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CA-2000 sent to US Army
ACS supplied a CA-2000 with Automatic Feedram to the US Army for installation at FOB Salerno in Afghanistan. |
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CA-3000 sent to Bagram Airfield
ACS supplied a CA-3000 with Automatic Feedram to the US Army for installation at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. |
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Hyundai Translead installs CA-750
ACS has supplied a CA-750 with 2 second secondary chamber, Feedram and Liquid Waste Injection System to Hyundai Translead Plant in Tijuana, Mexico. This is our first unit installed in Baja, Mexico. |
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Provincial Vet Lab acquires CA-1200 Crematory
Province of New Brunswick, Canada Veterinary Laboratory has purchased ACS’s, CA-1200 Animal Crematory with one second secondary chamber, continuous Front Ash Removal, Feedram and Cart Tipper. |
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Marine
Incinerators
ACS'
(M)CA-100 incinerator has
been approved by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for shipboard use. The
incinerator has 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.
An (M)CA-Series incinerator can
be installed as a stand-alone unit, or installed in an ISO
container as a PC-Series.
The PC-series incineration system 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.
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Incinerator Line Receives Approvals
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.
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MIS-Series (Mobile
Incineration System) for Bird Influenza
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.
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PC-Series
Update
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.
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Saipan,
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Saipan
International Airport
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.
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Downsizing
Pathological Animal Crematories
Be aware that some
incinerator manufacturers overstate their process burn rate
by using a higher heating value for pathological waste. By
definition and industry standards, pathological waste (Type 4,
animals) has a heating value of 1,000 BTU/lb 1.
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
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New Hampshire, USA |
Bridgewater,
Hebron build $2m incinerator
By CAROL CARTER
Sunday News Correspondent
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. |
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Advanced Combustion Systems' incineration system has been chosen by
the USDA to burn animals that test positive for
Mad Cow
Disease in Washington State. ACS's
CA-1100 infectious waste incinerator will burn
up to 750 lbs/hr. Whole bovines can be loaded at one time
eliminating human exposure to contaminated waste.
A similar system
completed in has been installed at Michigan State
University, which has a larger capacity, handling 1200lb.
contaminated whole bovines.
These
systems are totally integrated with auto feed, ash removal, and Air
Pollution Control (APC) scrubber system. PLC controls with
Data Acquisition (DAS) and Continuous Emissions Monitoring (CEM)
systems were provided by Advanced Control Systems, a division of
ACS, Inc. Contact Mike Milnes at
mike@acs-acs.com for further information. |
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ACS now offers
our PC-Series Portable
Containerized Systems for instant "plug-in turn-on"
applications. Totally self-contained, these units are suitable
for remote sites, small work camps, villages and marine vessels.
Features include Conex enclosure, with full front and rear
access, hinged or bolted stacks, and load ramp.
Contact our
sales department for more
information.
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Advanced
Combustion Systems has shipped three
CA-Series Cremation
Systems in the first quarter of this year. These units feature
programmable
controllers and dual feed systems. These systems are all
similar to the system shown above, incorporating
dual-step
hearth
design with
extended
retention secondary chambers.
ACS'
High Lift
cart tipping system was developed to
dock with standard, off-the-shelf, plastic carts.
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MAD COW, HOOF AND
MOUTH DISEASE
ACS
manufactures an incineration system to burn
infected
waste related to mad cow,
hoof and mouth disease
and other infectious
or toxic waste. ACS has developed our HSW-DSH series dual-step
hearth to insure maximum operator protection and total destruction
of all pathogens.
Through the entire
incineration and ash removal process, infectious materials are never
in contact with operators. The transport of all materials is
automated. All liquids developed during the burning process
are retained in the system for total burn off. Contact our
sales department for more
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Batch Oxidizing
Systems Vs. Controlled Air Batch Oxidizing Systems
"Don't believe everything you read"
Batch Oxidizing Systems (B.O.S.)
technology has been around since the 1940's. ACS has
manufactured batch load systems since 1972. This is not
considered a new technology, as some manufacturers may want you to
believe. ACS has taken batch oxidizing systems a step forward
in technology by offering its new line of fully modulated controlled
air and fuel oxidizing systems, which represents the latest and most
efficient batch load oxidizer. By fully controlling combustion
air and fuel ACS's Batch Oxidizer provides the cleanest burning and
most fuel-efficient stand alone systems available. Uncontrolled
combustion air/fuel found on B.O.S. systems can cause a "runaway"
burning condition resulting in excess gases to the secondary chamber
which can become overloaded, causing poor or unacceptable air
emissions. Contact ACS, Inc. for the latest developments in
Controlled Air Batch Oxidizing Systems.
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COMBUSTION SYSTEMS ¤ ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEMS ¤ ADVANCED
CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
1999 ALPINE WAY
BELLINGHAM, WA 98226
PHONE: 360.676.6005 800.445.0243 FAX: 360.647.9439 EMAIL:
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