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Pyrolysis Deemed a Viable Option to Incinceration
Researchers at the University of York have concluded that PyroPure (UK) technology has the potential to alter the way in which toxic waste is ruined in clinical surroundings and say pharmacists, hospitals and manufacturers across the UK should consider trialling the system.
The statement follows a six month Innovate UK-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership project in which a team of leading scientists from the University’s Environment Department and Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectroscopy verified that the system helped destroy active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) found within pharmaceutical waste onsite.
A total of 17 of the very thermally resistant APIs were chosen for the trial, that demonstrated that PyroPure technologies destroys over 99 percent of APIs in 10 of the 17 examined and a mean of 94 percent of their’worst case’ pharmaceuticals. On the future of PyroPure as an alternative to high temperature incineration, he remarks:
“There are large concerns over the negative impacts of pharmaceuticals on the natural environment. Inappropriate disposal of pharmaceuticals and emissions from manufacturing sites are regarded as significant contributors to those impacts. Our work shows that PyroPure could help reduce the levels of pharmaceuticals in rivers and streams and have large benefits for ecosystem health. The system also supplies a variety of other environmental and economic benefits that could radically change how waste of this sort is accumulated and ruined going forward. With PyroPure technology, toxic waste and controlled substances no more have to be hauled throughout the nation to incineration facilities, thereby reducing the related costs, carbon emissions and dangers associated with moving waste from the point of origin to its point of disposal.”
Presently in the UK, pharmaceutical wastes are only disposed of in large scale, high-temperature incinerators, which can be up to 200 miles from where the waste is created. The Environment Agency has previously indicated that PyroPure, that is based on pyrolysis, a thermochemical decomposition procedure using high temperatures and a lack of oxygen, followed by catalytic conversion to clean and convert the gases, which may be the first viable option to high-temperature incineration for liquid wastes.
On the trial’s success, Peter Selkirk, PyroPure Ltd’s Executive Chairman, adds:”This is a huge step forwards for PyroPure technology as well as the healthcare industry. For too long now, we have been too determined by incineration as the only viable route to dispose of toxic waste. Not only can it be expensive but it’s also open to security breaches, especially when the waste has to be hauled long distances. Now PyroPure is a proven technology I’m convinced that this breakthrough will pave the way for a new method of waste disposal and irrevocably alter the version for waste collection in clinical environments throughout the world.”
The trial, that formed a Knowledge Transfer Partnership involving PyroPure Ltd and the University, also demonstrated how onsite energy recovery throughout the PyroPure procedure is at least 75 percent compared with 20 percent to get a high-temperature incinerator. The user simply opens the device’s lid and places the waste inside the chamber prior to initiating the process of pyrolysis to destroy it.
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Each PyroPure unit is the size of a chest freezer. The user simply opens the unit’s lid and places the waste within the chamber before initiating the process of pyrolysis to destroy it.
England’s Garbage generating Danish heat
“They save having to bury the waste plus we save the usage of natural gas,” he said.
READ MORE: Denmark pays electricity
Environmental protection agency Miljøstyrelsen said that year up to 200,000 tonnes of non-hazardous waste from England was incinerated in Denmark — nearly half percent of the entire quantity of combustible material used.
The incinerator in Frederikshavn has dropped its imports of the English squander in the past year.
Incinerators in Aalborg and Hjørring will also be burning British trash.
“The heating we produce with the waste is more affordable than that which we can create with gas,” said AVØ head Tore Vedelsdal. “And the British are curious since they lack incinerators and pay hefty taxes .”
Good for the environment
The custom is being called an economic and environmental boon on both sides of the equation.
The AVØ incinerator in Frederikshavn produces heating and power to the region by burning crap from England.
“It is mainly construction waste such as bits of wood, plastic and cardboard from Manchester,” AVØ operations manager Orla Frederiksen told DR Nyheder. “I guess we’ve 600 tonnes here which provide a good combustible mixture we can then turn into district heating and power.”
Good for the bottom line
Environmental protection agency Miljøstyrelsen said that last year up to 200,000 tonnes of non-hazardous waste from England was incinerated in Denmark – nearly six percent of the total volume of combustible material used.
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INCINERATOR SPECIFICATION Capacity UPTO 20 kg/hr
Material: STAINLESS STEEL STACK, REFRACTORY CONCRETE LINING SPECIAL INSULATION MATERIAL
With burner: 15 C 20 KW
Temperature: PRIMARY CHAMBER = 800°C AND SECONDARY CHAMBER = 850 – 1200° C
Sufficient heat generation for secure and complete combustion 600-800 °C in the first chamber and >1000 °C in the second chamber
Easy transportation on standard EURO-pallets
Constructed in a modular fashion easy on-site movement and assembly with a minimum of equipment and technical skills;
For the destruction of problematic waste like sharps, amputates and body parts, wet or moist matter;
Off-gas quality: moderate smoke emissions during one quarter of the total incineration time; no visible emission during three quarters. AS PER INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
The remaining ash approximately 5-10% in weight and below 1% in volume of the original waste AS PER INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
Chimney height at least 5 m above the incinerator 5m ABOVE FROM THE GROUND
Temperature resistance of the lining at least 1,200 °C
Ebola: Southport Company leading the fight in International health Catastrophe
“Their engineers typically head out to aid with installation but as a result of the Ebola threat, engineers utilized by aid agencies and organisations are being delivered to be trained up at the plant at Canning Road Industrial Estate rather than But we are geared toward all these things, anyhow. The previous time demand was similar to this was the Iraq War. We have set up a separate plant so when it will happen we could handle it.”
British Army medics have been shipped to Sierra Leone yesterday as global leaders promised to measure the global community’s attempts to halt the spread of the disease which has up to now taken over 4,000 lives.
Sales and marketing manager Paul Niklas said they’d over a hundred orders from global organisations and aid agencies, such as the United Nations and the Red Cross.
He said most of their work force was dedicated to manufacturing the incinerators.
Mr Niklas explained:”We feel really proud of the fact they have come to us and we have a item that is part of the solution.
“Since this has to be contained at the origin.
“As soon as you begin trying to move waste, it can spread further and farther.
“Our incinerators burn 850 degrees Celsius which burns the toxins, then from the second chamber they burn the gases out of that at 1,200 degrees so what’s coming from the chimney is clean.
“Along with our incinerators are mobile, also, so they can be carried to the source”
British Army medics were sent to Sierra Leone yesterday as global leaders promised to step up the international community’s efforts to halt the spread of the disease which has so far taken more than 4,000 lives.
