Overall Objectives

Development of technologies for thermic treatment for specific types of waste. The intention is to design and construct the entire unit in Colombia. The incinerator is still in the initial stages of operation. The project is a model which shows the potential for innovation in the country.

Type of Waste targeted

• waste from industries with a high content of organic material
• waste with inactivate pathogenic agents in hospital waste

Standards, Indicators, Criteria for Assessment

• Resolution 0058 from 2002 and its modification
• Resolution 0886 from 2004

Institutions/Organization involved

-  Empresa Metropolitana de Aseo S.A. E.S.P.

Expected basic Scientific Progress

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Contribution to Capacity Building and Education

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Technologies applied or improved

• Rotary kiln with automatic waste feed
• after burning chamber with residence time of four seconds
• air pollution control system, including:

-  a quench

-  wet scrubbers

-  cyclones

-  bag house

-  pulverized active carbon

-  online pollutant monitoring system

Social target groups involved

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Publications on project results

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