KRST Medical Waste Incinerator Complex

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KRST Medical Waste Incinerator Complex
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Hazardous Waste Truck weighing In

• Vehicle constructed specifically for the
  transportation of Hazardous Waste

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Control Office

• Control Activity Area Monitors

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Processing Medical Waste

• Flow Overview of the Incineration process

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Continuous Emissions Monitor

• Current Sample Values
• (Opacity, 02, C0 Screen)

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Continuous Emissions Monitor

• Current Sample Values
• (PH, Stack Temperature screen)

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Continuous Emissions Monitor

• Current Sample Values
• (Scrubber, Liquor Flow Screen)

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Control Unit

• Computerized Control System Programs

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Control Unit Program

• To Scrubber screen

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3 Monitor Stack

• Monitors Opacity, 02 C0
• Transmits emissions readings to Office

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Central Chamber

• Ground Floor, 2nd level and Heating Fans

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Bar Coded Bio Hazard Waste Bins

• Awaiting processing, these Red Bins contain 100
  infectious waste which represents 35 of overall
  waste processed

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Bio Hazard Bin Handling

• Workers moving Waste bins toward the hoist

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Hazardous Waste Bin Hoist

• Hazardous waste bins being hoisted up to the
  incinerator Ramp (2nd level)

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Hazardous Waste Bin Wash Area

• Hazardous Waste Bins stacked for washing

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Hazardous Waste Bin Shipping area

• Hazardous Waste Bins washed awaiting shipment
  back to point of Origin for Re-Use

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Tipping Floor

• Regular Hospital Waste awaiting processing

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Tipping Floor Machinery

• Machinery used to manipulate Regular Hospital
  Waste around Tipping Floor to Hoppers

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Tipping Floor

• Regular Hospital Waste dumped by Waste Carriers

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Tipping Floor Hopper

• Regular Hospital Waste ready for the Hopper to
  move it to the Waste Ramp

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Tipping Floor Hopper

• Tipping Floor Hopper Pit to Waste Ramp

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Tipping Floor Overseer !

• Tipping Floor Teddy !

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Pallet Chopper

• Pallet Chopper on the Tipping Floor

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Ramp from Tipping Floor

• General Refuse from Tipping Floor to Furnace

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Refuse Ramp

• General Waste from the Tipping Floor on the Ramp
  enroute the Incinerator

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Scrubber Controls

• Furnace Cooling Monitor

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Scrubber

• (from below)

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Incinerator

• Discharge Plenum (2nd level)

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Ash

• Bottom Ash Particulate

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Ash

• Bottom Ash Particulate

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Ash

• Ash Hoe

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Cooling

• Waste Water System Program

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Cooling

• Water Tank

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Cooling

• Water Purification System

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Cooling

• Purified Water

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Waste Water

• Treatment System

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Freezer

• For Animal Carcass Storage

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Pathological Waste Handling

• Pathological Waste Combustion Chamber
• There is No Manual Sort of Infectious Waste

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Auto Clave

• Sterilises Glass for Landfill

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High Pressure Boiler

• Makes Steam for Sterilization

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Glass cleaning process

• Glass washing Machine

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Glass handling

• Glass washing bins Machinery

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Our Host, Dan Carlson

• Tour of November 5, 2005