Proposal of a Mobile Medical Waste Incinerator with Application of Automatic Waste Feeder and Heat Recovery System as a Novelty in Poland

Jan Wajs, Roksana Bochniak and Aleksandra Golabek
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Jan Wajs: Department of Energy and Industrial Apparatus, Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland
Roksana Bochniak: Department of Energy and Industrial Apparatus, Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland
Aleksandra Golabek: Department of Energy and Industrial Apparatus, Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 18, 1-18

Abstract: The paper presents and discusses the issues of medical waste (including hazardous ones) and the problems regarding their proper management in Poland. Inappropriate handling of infectious medical waste directly endangers human health and the environment. Infectious waste must be properly disposed of—in practice, the only method of their disposal available in Poland is a thermal treatment in the incinerators tailored for this purpose. This causes many problems to smaller entities such as the local health centers, but also to the beauty and tattoo salons. As a solution to these problems, the mobile medical waste incinerator was proposed. During designing an incinerator unit, a diverse morphological composition of the medical waste should be taken into account, however, there are no inspection reports available in Poland. Based on a few data concerning the composition of the medical waste, the article presents designing considerations in regard to the incinerator’s chamber dimensions. The calculations were carried out for several variants of the waste morphological composition. The own construction of a mobile medical waste incinerator, which conforms to the regulations in Poland and the European Union, was presented. It should be emphasized that it is a novelty on the Polish market, due to the automatic waste feeder into the combustion chamber, adapted to a mobile unit.

Keywords: medical waste disposal; incineration; automatic waste feeder; heat recovery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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