SPECIFIC TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEALTHCARE WASTE

SPECIFIC TREATMENT

TECHNOLOGIES FOR

HEALTHCARE WASTE

Jorge Emmanuel

International Experts’ Workshop

UNEP-DTIE-IETC

July 19-20, 2012

Osaka, Japan

SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES IN THE

COMPENDIUM

64 specific technologies:

15 autoclave technologies

11 hybrid autoclaves

4 continuous steam treatment systems

3 batch microwave units

3 continuous microwave systems

2 frictional heating treatment technologies

2 dry heat units

9 incinerators

4 alkaline hydrolysis technologies

3 chemical treatment systems

8 new or emerging technologies

Technologies represent 22 countries: Argentina (1), Australia (3), Austria (2), Belgium (2), Canada

(1), China (3), France (5), Germany (2), Hungary (1), India (2), Iran (1), Israel (2), Italy (4), Japan (1), Luxemburg (1), New Zealand (1), Philippines (1), Spain (2), Tanzania (1), Turkey (1), United Kingdom (3), and United States (24)

SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES IN THE COMPENDIUM

Data on each specific technology Type of technology

Process description

Types of waste treated

Range of capacities

Pathogen destruction

Emissions and by-products

Operation

Installation

Maintenance

Job Potential

Locations where the technology is in operation

Cost estimates

Special features

Parameter for specification

Photographs

Vendor information

Contact information

AUTOCLAVES: SPECIFIC

TECHNOLOGIES

AWS Clinical Waste

Bondtech

CISA

GEF Technology

GK Moss

Incol

MachinFabrik

Mark-Costello

Matachana / Webeco

Medclean Technologies

OnSite Sterilization/Variclave

Safewaste Technologies

San-I-Pak

Steridium

Tuttnauer

AUTOCLAVE: AWS CLINICAL WASTE

6 Models

Range of capacities: 20 to 20,000 liters/cycle

Special features:

Skid mounted

Post-treatment shredding

Odor control

Weighing and electronic waste tracking

In business since 1989

Installations: Australia, New Caledonia, Papau New

Guinea, New Zealand, UK, India and the USA

VACUUM AUTOCLAVE: BONDTECH

Range of capacities: 90 to 3,200 kg/cycle

Special features:

Pre- and post-vacuum using liquid ring pump or steam

ejector

Internal tracks or lift table for autoclavable carts

Weighing and electronic waste tracking


Installations: Argentina, Canada, Chile, Ireland,

Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, South

Korea, Thailand, most states of the United States,

and other countries

VACUUM AUTOCLAVE: CISA

7 models

Range of capacities: 10 to 150 kg/cycle

Special features:

Special autoclavable carts and trolleys

Fully enclosed stainless steel shelter, can be used outdoors

Can be constructed as a mobile system

In business for more than 60 years

Installations: Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy,

Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, and other countries in

Central Asia, Middle East, East Asia, and the

Americas.

STEAM FLUSHING AUTOCLAVE: GEF SYSTEM

Designed for district level hospitals (50-150 beds)

Capacities: 200 liters per cycle

Special features:

Can operate on electricity, gas/solar, or biofuels

Special autoclavable waste containers and pedal stands

Designed to facilitate materials recovery and recycling; can

be used with shredder or compactor-baler

Low-cost for low-income countries

Developed in Tanzania for the Global Environment

Facility under UNDP, WHO and HCWH

VACUUM AUTOCLAVE: GK MOSS

Retort design


Special features:

Autoclavable stainless steel carts with cart lift tables or

ramps

Assembled in modules


Installations: most states in the United States,

Vietnam

VACUUM AUTOCLAVE: INCOL

Multiple vacuum autoclave rated to 180ºC

8 basic models

Range of capacities: 150 to 1500 kg/hr

Special features:

Autoclavable stainless steel carts with cart lift tables

Also manufacture shredders and bind tippers

In business since early 1990s

Installations: Argentina, Brazil

VACUUM AUTOCLAVE: MACHINFABRIK

9 models


Special features:

Different door designs

Also manufacture shredders

In business since early 1990s

Installations: Bangladesh, India, Mauritius

GRAVITY-DISPLACMENT AND VACUUM AUTOCLAVE:

MARK-COSTELLO

12 models


Special features:

Gravity displacement or high vacuum autoclave

Carbon steel or stainless steel ; single or double door

Pull-out drawers, ramps, lifts, bin dumpers, shredders,

compactors, balers, recycling equipment, robotics

Some autoclaves still in operation after 20 years

In business since early 1959; autoclaves since 1971

Installations: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Guam, India,

Mexico, New Guinea, New Zealand, Peru, Romania,

US and the UK

VACUUM AUTOCLAVE: MATACHANA / WEBECO

Multiple vacuums; 4 models


Special features:

Two standard programs and two test programs for HCW

Internal racks for waste bags

Radiation detector


Installations: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China

and other Asian countires, Colombia, Czech Republic,

Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Mexico,

Norway, Peru, Portugal, Spain, and Venezuela

AUTOCLAVE: MEDCLEAN

6 models


Special features:

Fixed, mobile or containerized configurations

Aluminum-nickel alloy autoclavable carts

Also manufactures a high-torque low-speed shredder

In business since 1997 (formerly Aduromed)

Installations: Canada, United States

VACUUM AUTOCLAVE: ONSITE’S VARICLAVE

Multiple vacuum

Capacity: 270 kg/cycle

Special features:

Self-aligning doors

Internal water spray to cool waste and wash bin

Automatically determines the cycles and process

parameters according to the waste characteristics

In business since around 2000

Installations: United States

AUTOCLAVE: SAFEWASTE

Gravity displacement

Capacity: 50 kg/hr

Special features:

Internal data logger monitors waste temperature

Multiple units can operate in parallel

Waste placed inside used rice sacks in steel baskets

Autoclave manufacturer in business since 1964

Installations: Philippines

VACUUM AUTOCLAVE: SAN-I-PAK

6 model categories of multiple sizes

Range of capacities: 10 – 1000+ kg/hr

Special features:

Modular design; remote diagnostics

Most models have three tilt positions: load, process, dump

Integrated into compactor for regular waste

Autoclave manufacturer in business since 1964

Installations: over 1000 installations in North

America including US, South America, Central

America, Europe, Middle East, New Zealand and Asia

VACUUM AUTOCLAVE: STERIDIUM

10 models

Range of capacities: 150 – 800 liters per cycle

Special features:

Liquid ring pump or steam ejector for vacuum

Vertical sliding door

Reverse flow system to decontaminate drain lines

Automatic blowdown of boiler

In business since 1980s

Installations: Australia, Vietnam and other

industrialized and developing countries

VACUUM AUTOCLAVE: TUTTNAUER

15 models with range of capacities: 160 – 4000 l/cycle

Special features:

Hinged or auto vertical sliding doors, single or double

Liquid ring pump for vacuum supplemented by steam

ejector and optional HEPA filter for decontamination

Carts with drains; autoclave have built-in cooling coils

Four pre-programmed standard cycles: 2 SW, LW, LW-SW

In business for over 80 years

Installations: Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Germany,

Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Kenya, Netherlands, Panama,

Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Turkey, United States, and

Vietnam

HYBRID AUTOCLAVES: SPECIFIC

TECHNOLOGIES

Celitron

Ecodas

Ecolotec

Hydroclave

MedFreshe/Narula Group

Medivac Metamizer

Metan

RedBag Solutions

Sazgar

T.E.M. Steriflash and Steri2flash

Tempico Rotoclave

HYBRID AUTOCLAVE: CELITRON

Tilting vertical autoclave with internal shredder

Capacity: 48 kg per hour (25 minute cycles)

Special features:

Internal blades rotate 300 to 1100 rpm in two directions

Internal spray for cleaning

Automatic tilt for loading and processing (vertical)

Installations: Australia, Germany, Hungary, Mexico,

Netherlands and Switzerland

HYBRID AUTOCLAVE: ECODAS

Vertical autoclave with internal shredder

4 models with range of capacities: 30 to 300 kg/hr

Special features:

Autoclave jacket used also for cooling

Vacuum used for drying

Loading door can be on dock level or higher floor

In business for over 20 years

Installations: 50 countries including Albania, Algeria,

Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Brazil, China, Cyprus, Ecuador,

Egypt, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadalupe,

Honduras, India, Iraq, Iran, Jamaica, Jordan, Kosovo, Latvia,

Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, New Caledonia, Nigeria,

Panama, Reunion Island,

St. Lucia, Syria, Turkmenistan,

UAE, and Venezuela.

HYBRID AUTOCLAVE: ECOLOTEC

Tilting autoclave with internal shredder

Capacity: 160 kg per hour (15 minute cycles)

Special features:

Internal knife hammers rotate 1500 to 1750 rpm

Uses injection of superheated steam

Automatic tilt for loading and processing

Exposure time is adjusted in case of a rotary tool failure

Designed in Germany in 1993


HYBRID AUTOCLAVE: HYDROCLAVE

Autoclave with internal rotating arms

9 models with range of capacities: 34-1023 kg/hr

Special features:

Different arm designs for fragmenting & mixing

Loading doors at the top or sides near the top

Integrated with conveyors, shredders or compactors


Installations: Albania, Argentina, Canada, China, Egypt,

Greece, Guyana, India, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico, New Caledonia,

Niger, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka, South Africa,

Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States

HYBRID AUTOCLAVE: NARULA MEDFRESHE

Tilting autoclave with internal shredder

Capacity: 150 liters and a 15-minute cycle

Special features:

Two sets of blades rotating in two different directions at

300 to 1400 rpm

Three positions: load, process and unload

Treatment plant designed around the treatment unit

In business since 1953, waste unit is more recent

Installations: India and in other countries in Asia and

Europe

HYBRID AUTOCLAVE: MEDIVAC METAMIZER

Autoclave with internal shredder

Capacity: 250 liters at 15-minute cycles, 200 kg/hr

Special features:

Waste circulated through the internal shredder

Automatic RFID scanning and weighing of waste bins

Remote monitoring

In business for 14 years

Installations: Australia, with distribution in Cyprus,

India, Greece, Japan, and Russia

HYBRID AUTOCLAVE: METAN

Horizontal or vertical autoclave with internal

shredder and internal mixer


Special features:

L-shaped design for horizontal model or fully

vertical design for the vertical model

Cassette-type two-shaft shredder is in the

section just before the autoclave

Autoclaves have internal mixers (mixing wings)

In business since 1998, Akar Machinery

(autoclave builder) in business since 1990

Installations: Turkey

HYBRID AUTOCLAVE: REDBAG SOLUTIONS

Steam treatment with internal maceration

Capacity: 70 kg/hr

Special features:

Internal grinding by circulating through macerator pump

impellers

Integrated with a solid-liquid filter separator

Remote monitoring through the Internet

In business since1990s (previously Antaeus)


HYBRID AUTOCLAVE: SAZGAR

Steam treatment with internal shredding

3 models


Special features:

Three vacuum cycles and a cooling cycle

Dual-shaft shredder with auto reverse to prevent jamming

Integrated with a solid-liquid filter separator


Installations: Iran and other

Middle Eastern countries

HYBRID AUTOCLAVE: TEM STERIFLASH

Steam treatment with internal shredding

2 capacities: 80 and 200 liters/cycle, 43 minute cycle

Special features:

Transparent lid with mechanical arm

Two-shaft shredder, auger press for solid-liquid separation

Bactericide sprayed before waste is placed in hopper


Installations: Algeria, Czech Republic, France, Germany,

Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,

Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Panama, Poland, Romania,

Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, St. Bart, Syria, Tunisia,

Ukraine, UAE, UK, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

HYBRID AUTOCLAVE: TEMPICO ROTOCLAVE

Rotating autoclave with internal vanes

8 models with range of capacities: 870 - 14,700+ liter/hr

Special features:

Pre- and post-treatment vacuum using steam ejector

Integrated with bin dumpers, conveyors, shredders


Installations: more than 100 in

American Samoa, Canada, Latvia,

Mexico, United Kingdom, United

States and other countries

CONTINUOUS STEAM TREATMENT

SYSTEMS: SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES

BioSafe Engineering

Erdwich

LogMed

Miclo

CONTINUOUS STEAM TREATMENT: BIOSAFE

ENGINEERING

6 Models with range of capacities: 140 to 1800 kg/hr

Special features:

Can be installed indoors or outdoors

Internal four-shaft shredder (cassette) and conveying auger

Flash-off section to dry waste, HEPA filter to remove odors

Shredders last up to 1350 tonnes of waste

In business since mid-1990s (formerly ChemClav)

Installations: large commercial plants in Australia,

England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and United States.

CONTINUOUS STEAM TREATMENT: ERDWICH

TWIN-STER

Capacity: 250 kg/hr

Special features:

Shredder with ram, multiple conveying augers, buffer vessel

Double-lock slide gate on jacketed sterilization chamber

Steam treatment (121º-140ºC), double-chamber filter for odors

Erdwich has been making shredders for over 30 years

Installations: Germany

CONTINUOUS STEAM TREATMENT: LOGMED

4 models, range of capacities: 100 - 500 kg/hr

Special features:

Shredder, reversible treatment screw with isolation valves

PLC controls temperature, pressure and time

Optional liquid sterilizatioin system


Installations: Belgium, England,

France, Germany, Luxemburg

and Netherlands

CONTINUOUS STEAM TREATMENT: MICLO

Several models with range of capacities: 100-500 kg/hr

Special features:

Waste collected in 660 to 1100 liter bins

Shredder and ram, screw with isolation valves, compactor

Treatment at 138ºC and 3.6 bars for 15-18 minutes

1 hour cycle, 24 hour operation, remote monitoring and diagnostics

In business for 30 years in shredding and compaction

Installations: France and in other countries

BATCH MICROWAVE UNITS: SPECIFIC

TECHNOLOGIES

Meteka

Sintion

Sterifant-Sterival

CONTINUOUS MICROWAVE SYSTEMS: SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES

AMB Ecosteryl

Micro-Waste

Sanitec

BATCH MICROWAVE: METEKA MEDISTER

6 models with range of capacities: 8 - 60 liter per cycle

Special features:

Waste collected Meditainer (puncture-proof reusable bin) which are transported on Meditrans (trolleys) and fit directly in the Medister (microwave unit)

Magnetrons convert water into steam inside the bin


Installations: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Montenegro, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Turkmenistan

BATCH MICROWAVE: SINTION

2 models with capacities 42 and 103 liters per cycle or

20 liters per hour and 210 liters per hour

Special features:

Top loading, one bag at a time, small compact units

Optional shredder


Installations: over 100 units in Austria, Bosnia &

Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece,

Lithuania, Serbia in Asia, other countries

in Europe, Central and South America.

BATCH MICROWAVE: STERIFANT-STERIVAL

Modular design; each module treats 60 liters/half hour

Special features:

Waste bins with clamp rings, reusable 100-200 times

2 liters of water injected into each bin

After microwaving to 136ºC, waste is shredded and

compacted and deodorizer is added

10 modules can fit in a truck for mobile treatment


Installations: 27 units in Europe, 10 in South America and 6 in

Asia; including France, Germany, Hungary, Kuwait, Luxembourg,

Portugal and the UK

CONTINUOUS MICROWAVE: AMB ECOSTERYL

3 models, range of capacities from 100 to 300 kg/hr

Special features:

Screw with 6 magnetrons, holding tank

4-shaft shredder cuts pieces to less than 20 mm sizes

660 to 770 liter waste bins

In business since 1947; microwave units since 2006

Installations: Belgium, France and other European countries,

the Maghreb countries (North Africa), South Africa, South America

and Russia, overseas French territories, the Middle East and Asia

CONTINUOUS MICROWAVE: MICRO-WASTE

2 models: one has thicker shredder cutters, larger size

screen, and no holding section

Capacity: 800 kg/hr

Special features:

Self-contained, all-weather enclosure

Six or eight magnetrons

Similar to Sanitec microwave

In business since 1989, began as company to service and

maintain Sanitec


CONTINUOUS MICROWAVE: SANITEC

2 original models; smaller unit no longer made

Capacity: 810 kg/hr

Special features:

Self-contained, all weather enclosure

Six magnetrons

Originally ABB Sanitec in late 1980s, Sanitec sinc 1990

Installations: Brazil, Philippines, S. Korea, United

States, and other countries

FRICTIONAL HEATING SYSTEMS: SPECIFIC

TECHNOLOGIES

Newster

OMPeco

DRY HEAT UNITS: SPECIFIC

TECHNOLOGIES

Demolizer

Sterigerms

FRICTIONAL HEATING: NEWSTER

2 models: 15 kg/hr and 30 kg/hr

Special features:

High-speed rotors at 1300 to 2800 rpm

Hypochlorite added; frictional heating forms steam

Waste heated between 135º and 150ºC, dry superheat


Installations: about 223 units in Albania, Azerbaijan, Belarus,

Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia,

Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Poland

Romania, Russia, and Tunisia

FRICTIONAL HEATING: OMPECO

6 models

Range of capacities: 10 to 1500 kg/hr, 30 minute cycle

Special features:

High-speed rotors at the bottom of the vessel

Waste heated to 151ºC, dry superheat

In business since 1973, frictional heating since 2001

Installations: 62 OMPeco Converter units in operation in

Bosnia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China,

Croatia, France, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico,

Netherlands, Romania,

Russia, South Africa,

Spain, Tunisia, Turkey,

Ukraine, and Venezuela

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DRY HEATING: DEMOLIZER

Small desktop unit for clinics, doctor’s office, dentists

Capacity: 3.8 liters per cycle, 2.5 hour cycle

Special features:

Disposable container with plastic lid that melts

Heated without steam to over 177ºC

Confirmation label printed and affixed to container

DOCC since 1990s, acquired by BMTS in 2005

Installations: United States and India

DRY HEATING: STERIGERMS

2 models, capacities of 12 & 60 liters per 55-min cycle

Special features:

Waste in disposable bags heated to 150ºC for 20 min

Piston compacts the waste into a compressed disk


Installations: France and other European

countries, also used by the Navy

MEDICAL WASTE INCINERATORS:

SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES

Advanced Combustion Systems

ATI Incinerateurs Muller

BIC systems

Consutech

Hafner

Incinco

Kureha

Pennram

Techtrol/Incol

Plantec

INCINERATORS: ADVANCED COMBUSTION SYSTEMS

Modular, dual-chamber, controlled air incinerator

10 models; range of capacities: 110 to 910 kg/hr

Special features:

Ram feeder, monolithic refractory liner, air injection

Two-stage quencher, absorber, entrainment

separator, wet ESP, heat recovery boiler, venturi

scrubber, activated carbon

Dioxins down to 0.0023 ng TEQ/dsfcm


Installations: Afghanistan, Canada, Iraq, Lebanon, Mexico,

Saipan, United States, and other countries

INCINERATORS: ATI INCINERATEURS MULLER

Dual-chamber incinerator

11 models


Special features:

High turbulence vortex oxygen injection system

Wet or dry sorbent injection scrubber, ceramic filter

Meets EU emission limits


Installations: 32 incinerators that meet the emission limits

under the EU Directive; 500 incinerators in 55 countries, France

INCINERATORS: BIC SYSTEMS

Co-current and counter-current rotary kilns

Custom built with range of capacities 100-5000 kg/hr

Special features:

Cooling chamber, venturi dry scrubber using

NaHCO3, activated carbon, baghouse filter; optional

wet scrubber with NaOH, semi-wet scrubber using

lime, cyclone, & ESP to meet US and EU limits


Installations: Belgium, Cote D’Ivoire, Czech Republic, France,

Germany, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Tanzania, Thailand,

UAE, UK, and Vietnam

INCINERATORS: CONSUTECH

Dual-chamber stepped hearth controlled air incinerator

33 models with range of capacities: 34 kg/hr to 100+ tpd

Special features:

Quench chamber with atomized water spray, dry

scrubber with activated carbon, wet scrubber, vortex

mixing chamber, baghouse filter


Installations: thousands of incinerators worldwide

INCINERATORS: HAFNER

Rotary kiln

Two models, 7 tpy or 25000 tpy

Special features:

Constructed in modules in shipping containers

Quencher; Teflon-coated fabric filter; dry absorption

with soda, coke and bicarbonate; catalyst to remove

Nox and dioxins/furans, to meet EU limits

Installations: Austria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, and Venezuela;

other countries in Asia and Eastern Europe

INCINERATORS: INCINCO

Reciprocating grate dual-chamber incinerator

Many models ranging from 25 kg/hr to over 2000 kg/hr

Special features:

Heat recovery boiler

Range of air pollution control including wet

scrubbers, ceramic pod dry filtration


Installations: 10,000 incinerators worldwide including Algeria,

Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, Nigeria,

Pakistan, Qatar, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, UK, and Vietnam.

INCINERATORS: KUREHA

Rotary kiln

Custom built for large scale processing

Special features:

Jet furnace and ash extraction system

Quench tower, wet scrubber with re-circulating

alkali, mist Cottrell wet ESP; option of dry scrubber

with activated carbon or catalyst; wastewater

treatment to meet EU limit

In business since 1944; waste treatment since 1970s

Installations: Japan

INCINERATORS: PENNRAM


Many models ranging from 25 kg/hr to 30 tpd

Special features:

2 to 4 steps; 1 to 4 ash transfer rams, water ash sump

Wet scrubber, baghouse filter to meet EU and US

limits


Installations: 50 countries in Africa, North America,

Caribbean and the Middle East.

INCINERATORS: TECHTROL/INCOL


10 models from 135 to 1350 kg/hr

Special features:

Ash discharged into a closed bin

Air blast cooling, dry scrubber using a neutralizing

sorbent and activated carbon, multi-element filter; or

dual-stage quench system, venturi wet scrubber with

neutralizing liquid or catalytic gas cleaning, filter

with mercury abatement

Techtrol in business since 1985, Incol since 1990s

Installations: thousands of units worldwide

ALKALINE DIGESTERS: SPECIFIC

TECHNOLOGIES

BioResponse

BioSafe Engineering

Peerless Waste Solutions

PRI

CHEMICAL TREATMENT SYSTEMS: SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES

PIWS

Sterimed

Trinova

ALKALINE DIGESTER: BIORESPONSE

6 low-T models, 30 to 4500 kg per 6-18 hour cycle

6 high-T/P models, 30 to 4500 kg per 5-8 hour cycle

Special features:

Low-T models at 93ºC high-T models at 150ºC and 4 bar-g

In business since 2006, came out of WR2

Installations: 75 units in Canada, Ireland, United States, and

other countries. Low-temperature units are found

in Australia, United States and other countries

ALKALINE DIGESTER: BIOSAFE ENGINEERING

Many models ranging from 15 to 4336 kg/cycle

Special features:

3-4 hour cycle at 150ºC

Optional pH reduction of effluent by CO2 injection

In business since 1992, came out of WR2; oldest unit

installed in 1993 still in operation

Installations: more than a hundred units in Canada,

United States and other countries

ALKALINE DIGESTER: PEERLESS WASTE

3 models from 7 to 90 kg per cycle

Special features:

Both low-temperature (95ºC) and high-temperature

high-pressure systems

In business for several years


ALKALINE DIGESTER: PRI

Custom built from 14 to 4500 kg/cycle

Both low-temperature and high-T high-P designs

Special features:

High torque low-speed mixer


Installations: Canada, China, Germany, S. Korea,

Malaysia, Spain, United States, and other countries

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CHEMICAL TREATMENT: PIWS

Dry calcium-oxide based disinfectant

2 models: 180 kg/hr and 900 kg/hr

Special features:

Mobile or stationary

30-min cycle, computer sets disinfectant amount

Two-chamber grinding, powder added with mist


Installations: China, United States, other countries

CHEMICAL TREATMENT: STERIMED

Glutaraldehyde and quats disinfectant

2 models at 15 liters per cycle and 70 liters per cycle

Special features:

Shredder, mixing, solid-liquid separator


Installations: Azerbaijan, Caribbean, Guam, Serbia, Hungary,

United Kingdom, United States, other countries in Europe and

elsewhere

CHEMICAL TREATMENT: TRINOVA

Disinfection with aqueous solution of chlorine dioxide

3 models ranging from 270 to 680 kg/hr

Special features:

Shredder, mixing reservoir, reaction coil, filter,

neutralizer for depleted ClO2 solution



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