VietNamNet Bridge – On August 10, the Bac Kan-based Hoa Tu Long
Industry Company officially put the medical waste incinerator (YT30) into
operation. This is the first high-tech incinerator made in Vietnam.
The incinerator has the capacity
of 30-50 kilos of medical waste per hour. The patent has been granted by the
Ministry of Science and Technology to Trinh Dinh Nang, Director of Hoa Tu Long.
YT30 incinerator has been made to
the order of the Bac Kan Town Healthcare Center. This is a kind of continuous
incinerator, which means that when the incinerator is on operation, one still
open the incinerator’s door to put in more things.
Scientists say this could be
described as a waste disposal system in miniature, rather than the single
incinerator like the ones imported from foreign countries to Vietnam in recent
years.
There is a big advantage of the
incinerator manufactured with Vietnamese technology is that after burning, only
glass and aluminum dioxide are left, while all other substances would be burned
off, including needles. Especially, the incineration speed is four times faster
than the incinerators with the same capacity made in the UK, Germany, or Japan.
According to Trinh Dinh Nang, the
incineration cost of one kilo of medical waste is very low at 5000 dong, if
using diesel, while the cost would be 2000 dong only if using waste oil.
Meanwhile, if using the incinerator made in the UK, hospitals would have to pay
50,000 dong per kilo. The Bac Kan General Hospital is using the incinerator.
Some scientists have also
expressed their special interests in the incinerator, saying that one needs to
spend 80,000 dong on average to incinerate one kilo of waste with the
incinerators made in the US or Japan.
Especially, it would be 40-50
percent cheaper to invest in the IT incineration technology than buying foreign
products.
The combustion chamber has two
furnaces: primary and secondary. Medical waste would be put into the primary
furnace first. After the waste is burnt, the smoke would be transferred to the
secondary furnace for further burning.
After that, the smoke is passed
through to the dust handling system using Nano technology, then through the
water tank before it discharges into the environment. The cooling water system
runs in accordance with the industrial cyclical process.
YT incinerator of Hoa Tu Long is
made of good materials, therefore, it is expected to have long life expectancy
with the heat resistant tile life of up to 10 years, furnace cover life of 6-7
years and easily repaired. The incinerator has also been installed with
supporting devices such as computer, two independent temperature sensors, oil
pumps, and direct observation system via camera.
There is an interesting thing in
the patent that the inventor – Trinh Dinh Nang – is an “engineer with no
university degree.” Though Nang did not study at any university, he still has
invented the incinerator with his creativeness, which is a pride of the
Vietnamese technology.
Especially, Nang has affirmed
that he himself has made all the materials and equipments of the incinerator
with the materials from domestic sources, and that he only had to use foreign
made factories.
The incinerator is believed to
make a breakthrough in medical waste treatment. A lot of hospitals have
complained they cannot do anything with the waste, since incinerators have got
too old, while they do not have money to buy new ones.
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