[Stoves] Request for proposals: Medical Waste Incinerator for Humanitarian Emergencies from Innocentive

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Friends

This is a perennial question, particularly for rural clinics which have to
dispose of things on site.  One of the requirements of a good incinerator is
it should burn the 'sharps' basically to nothing. Needles are usually
evaporated.  A second need is to burn wet things like afterbirth.  The
garbage is not, on its own, enough to meet these two requirements. 

Good project.
Crispin

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On 6 September 2015 at 13:40, Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> To all,
>
> If you are considering doing this, you should first check the details
about
> what you are giving up if you should happen to win.   This is akin to the
> Virgin Earth Challenge.   THEY end up with a set of rights and the
proposer
> gets some money.   But if you do not win, they still have some lingering
> rights that you might not like.


It's right you should flag this up Paul, I do think it is a worthy case for
discussion and thank Michal for bringing it to our attention.
I personally have no qualms about putting some ideas for open discussion and
results  into the public domain.

I would be interested in seeing the specification the device must reach, is
it something like 1200C for 1 second for the flue gases, what about the ash,
what temperature must this achieve?

As medical wastes are bound to have a high water content and if they want to
avoid too much support fuel the problem is probably similar to ones face by
crematoria which nowadays are sequential batch devices.

AJH

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