Abstract
Incineration is the destruction of waste materials by the controlled application of heat. There are a wide variety of incinerators that have been developed for the burning of the varied types and quantities of wastes found in today’s society. Specialty incinerators have been developed for radioactive wastes, off-the-shelf units for hospital or apartment house waste, incineration equipment for burning ordinary household refuse, industrial incinerators for the destruction of liquid waste, and so on. Some of these incinerators have heat recovery equipment that generates steam, hot water, or hot air, and some do nothing more than burn their designated waste streams. There are incinerators that are versatile in their application, able to burn anything from waste gas to garbage, tars to waterborne wastes, all within one unit. This chapter describes some of the various incinerators available for waste destruction.
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Brunner, C.R. (1985). Incineration. In: Hazardous Air Emissions from Incineration. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2539-0_8
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