HIGHLY EFFICIENT BIO-MEDICAL WASTE INCINERATOR
Under the Home
Grown Technology Programme of the Technology Information Forecasting
and Assessment Council (TIFAC) has come out yet another environment-friendly
technology i.e. a highly efficient bio-medical waste incinerator.
The new incinerator can handle all types of hospital wastes without
the cumbersome procedure of segregating different categories of
wastes. It has a capacity of incinerating 25 kgs of wastes an
hour and operates as per pollution control norms.
Since it employs
a plasma torch, the requisite temperatures are easily attained
in two-stage process, i.e. solid waste material is pyrolised to
convert waste into gaseous forms and is then incinerated completely.
This is followed by scrubbing to ensure that only the environmental
friendly gases are let out.
The
product launched on the occasion
of the National Technology Day (11th Day) has been
developed jointly by the Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma
Technology , Gandhi Nagar and M/s Bhagwati Bio-Tech, Ahmedabad
with techno-managerial and financial support of TIFAC, Department
of Science and Technology. An important spin-off, of this technology
is that it can also be used for incinerating plastic municipal
wastes. Four units for incinerating plastic municipal wastes based
on this technology, are coming up in Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Sikkim
and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Most hospitals
in the country do not have adequate systems for safe disposal
of hospital wastes. With a ban on the use of diesel incinerator
by the Supreme Court as well as making it mandatory for all hospitals
with 50 beds to have incinerators, the Facilitation Centre for
Industrial Plasma Technology has come out with this highly innovative
and effective solution for the disposal of bio-medical wastes,
in cooperation with TIFAC.
