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

[Andrew Heggie]

On 6 September 2015 at 16:40, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
<crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes Crispin but what is the high temperature requirement? With dry
wood burning at best (no excess air, adiabatic flame temperature) at
1600C  and typically achieving only 1200C it simply may not be good
enough as a support fuel without some clever thinking.


> Good project.

Agreed

AJH