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Incinerators

Macrotec designs and manufactures the most advanced incinerators on the market, incorporating cutting edge design of the combustion chambers and combustion air to ensure complete combustion, Oxygen analysers for combustion control, manual or auto feeders, and world leading flue gas abatements systems. 

Our incinerators cater for various applications and conditions. Our focus has always been on hazardous waste types, such as animal, medical, biological, mining, and pharmaceutical waste, along with waste generated by remote operations such as hotels and military operations.

Our incinerator are available in three main configurations, Biomass, Standalone, and Incinerators with Air Pollution Control. This provides a solution for most sites and clients, from basic incinerators to incinerator plants for centralised waste treatment. 

Our innovative solution for rural areas that don’t have a reliable supply of fuel, these incinerators use biomass to heat up and maintain the required temperature.

Our standard incinerators that are used all over the world. These incinerators offer reliability, easy maintenance, low emissions, various feeding systems, and can handle multiple waste types.

Our solution for ultra-low emissions, these incinerators are integrated with dry gas scrubbing, flue gas filtration, and heat recovery. These plants comply with EU and South African emission regulations. 

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Emissions Compliant

Our Incinerators with Air Pollution Control (APC) are compliant to important regulatory standards, such as the EU Incinerator Directive and the South African Emission Regulations.

Certification

Macrotec is certified to the following standards:

ISO 9001:2015 | Quality Management Systems
ISO 14001:2015 | Environmental Management Systems
ISO 45001:2018 | Occupational Health & Safety Management

Quality

Our objective is to design and manufacture Quality Incinerators, that are robust, easy to operate, and with low maintenance requirements. Our manufacturing involves a strict Quality Control Procedure, with multiple inspections to ensure the highest quality product. Our factory is also certified to ISO 3834.

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Design Highlights

Refractory

We utilise a high-quality refractory that has been designed specifically for the harsh conditions that incinerators face. This refractory is chemically resistant to both alkali and acidic substances, as well as having the physical properties to produce a high abrasion resistance. Unlike other refractories, ours has an extremely wide temperature range for operation – it comfortably accommodates the incinerator temperature ranges typically encountered in incinerators. For most incinerator models we also cast the refractory in sections, allowing for expansion joints, to increase the refractory operating life. 

Insulation

We use high quality insulation, with a low thermal conductivity, to achieve safe working surface temperatures and minimal heat loss. 

3CR12 Stack

We provide an optional 3CR12 stack as opposed to a mild steel stack for added corrosion resistance.

Oxygen Analyser/Sensor

Oxygen Analyser

A fast response oxygen analyser is installed for combustion control. This allows for careful control of combustion air, increasing and decreasing the combustion fan speed as conditions inside the incinerator change. This leads to a dramatic decrease in emissions. Also, when the Oxygen demand decreases, the combustion fan speed also decreases, saving fuel and electricity. 

Fuel Consumption

Due to the thermal properties of our refractory and insulation, and with the careful combustion air control, we achieve industry leading fuel usage.

Chamber Sizes

Combustion volume is one of the most important factors affecting incinerator emissions. This is because it sets the retention time for flue gas, which influences the extent of combustion achieved, and serves as a settling chamber for particulate matter, to ensure cleaner emissions. Our incinerators have larger combustion chambers relative to competitors for a given processing capacity. This ensures a longer reaction time, better combustion, and lower emissions.

Stack Design Code

All our stacks are designed according to ASME STS-1.

Manual Feeder

Manual Feeders

Our incinerator manual feeders offer a cost-effective option to minimise waste handling and to improve operator health and safety. The manual feeder has a manual push system to inject waste into the incinerator, minimising the exposure of operators to incinerator heat and physically handling the waste.

Auto Feeders

Our auto feeders offer the most advanced incinerator feeding system available. The feeder integrates a bin-tipper or manual loading of waste into a hopper, with hydraulics opening the incinerator gate and pushing the waste into the incinerator. The air sealed incinerator gate prevents air in-leakage, and thereby enhancing combustion conditions. Various safety systems are included to ensure safe operation. The auto feeder also automates when waste is pushed into the incinerator, optimising incinerator loading, reducing emissions, and removing operator error. 

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Continuous Feeding

Our incinerators are continuous feeding, and not batch loaded. This has two main advantages:

  • Continuous feeding allows for more effective combustion control and better emissions as the spikes in heat and flue gas associated with batch feeding can be avoided.
  • The incinerator is also de-ashed continuously, without needing to switch off and stop operations. This saves time and fuel, as the incinerator is not pre-heated again between batches. 

Access Doors

Access doors are easy to open and well insulated, allowing for easy inspection and maintenance. 

Easy Operations and Maintenance

Our incinerators are designed to allow for easy operability when it comes to feeding, stoking and ash removal. Our main doors are large enough to allow for the easy inspections and access for maintenance when required. Our HMI provides clear and concise instructions to the operator with regards to temperature, hours until next service, and error explanations.

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Easy diagnostics

Our HMI screens provide clear and easy to understand error messages, along with complete performance and error logs to enable operators or maintenance staff to diagnose issues.

Performance and compliance

Logs are stored for up to 360 days on the following metrics to assist with Quality Control and Regulatory Compliance:

  • Temperature
  • Start / Stop times
  • Errors

User Security

We provide multiple user levels on the Control System, with tailored permissions:

• Operators 
• Site Engineers 

What You Need to Know About Incineration

Incineration is a method of waste management employed to process various types of wastes including municipal, biosolids, hazardous, non-hazardous industrial, medical, as well as other liquid residues and potentially harmful gases. Through this method, wastes are transformed into flue gas, ash, and heat. The resulting ash predominantly consists of non-combustible inorganic substances.

Incineration offers the following potential advantages:

  • Volume reduction
  • Detoxification
  • Environmental impact mitigation
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Energy recovery
  • Stabilization in landfills
  • Detoxification and sterilization

It’s essential to understand that only substances that can burn will undergo incineration. Non-combustible materials will end up as either ash or flue gas, depending on their boiling points.

What can be Incinerated?

  • Municipal solid waste (MSW)
  • Industrial waste
  • Medical waste
  • Animal carcasses and animal waste
  • Hazardous waste
  • Food waste

What cannot be incinerated?

  • Glass
  • Metal
  • Sand
  • Stones
  • Concrete and Bricks

Sizing an Incinerator

Different waste types will also burn at different rates, and thus affect the actual incinerator throughput. This is an important consideration to keep in mind when sizing an incinerator. When trying to determine the required incinerator size, we usually work backwards by determining:

  • How much waste will be produced per month?
  • What is the composition of this waste?
  • How many days per week, and hours per day, will we be operating?
  • What is the altitude of the site?

After determining the above, we can work out the incinerator throughput requirement, by considering the rate at which different waste will burn. The factors that influence this are:

  • Nett calorific value (CV) of the waste
  • Moisture content of the waste
  • Density of the waste
  • How the waste is packaged

Incinerator Air Pollution Control

Incinerator emissions has become a major issue around the world. We incorporate several technologies to reduce emissions on all our incinerators, but depending on your location and waste being incinerated, more advanced Air Pollution Control might be required, such as:

  • Wet Scrubbing
  • Dry Gas Scrubbing – Absorption (for acid gasses) & Adsorption (for heavy metals and Dioxins)
  • Bag Filtration
  • Ceramic Filtration

Other Considerations

  • Where will waste be stored before incineration?
  • How will waste be moved from storage to the incinerator?
  • Will a shredder be required?
  • Is a manual or auto feeder required?
  • What auxiliary fuel will be used, LFO (diesel), LPG, Natural Gas, or Dual fuels?
  • Is there a requirement to burn waste oil?
  • What is the plantroom ventilation requirement?

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