Many pallet yards have a place that looks like a big junk pile. Keeping everything clean and tidy can be hard to do, although it is good for business. From reducing fire danger to improving your plant operations to having a facility that looks good, there are many reasons to stay up on your housekeeping.
Is wood waste reducing your pallet yard productivity? What are you doing with your scrap material? Allowing it to collect just takes today’s problems and pushes it later into the future for you to address. These piles also pose a risk for spontaneous combustion. With the Air Burners® FireBox you can quickly, cleanly and cost-effectively eliminate wood and vegetative waste without grinding or hauling. While burning the wood waste, the FireBox uses an air curtain to trap particulate matter and smoke. The result of the burn process is marketable biomass product called biochar and a lot more space for your pallet yard. Metal nails, staples and screws are not a problem either. They will fall to the bottom of the machine ready for you to collect and recycle once the burning is complete.
Air Burners technology uses an Air Curtain designed as a pollution control device for open burning. Once the fire has reached suitable strength, usually in 15 to 20 minutes, the air curtain is engaged. The air curtain then runs at a steady state throughout the burn operation, and the waste wood is loaded at a rate consistent with the rate of burn. The smallest FireBox will burn at a rate of 1 to 2 tons per hour; the largest machine can burn in excess of 20 tons per hour.
The primary purpose of the air curtain is to create a “secondary burn chamber.” The air curtain is like a lid covering the opening in a FireBox. The particles of smoke rising on the hot gasses of the fire are trapped under the air curtain. These smoke particles are then reburned and their size is significantly reduced. With this reduced size, they can now escape through the air curtain and appear more like waves of heat than smoke. The result is a very clean burn, with opacities well under 10% per EPA Method 9 Testing (as compared to open burning, which typically can run at 80% to 100% opacity). Air Burners contends, “It’s what you can’t see that is important… Black carbon smoke particles (called PM2.5) consist of particulate matter that is under 2.5 microns in size. These are the particulates that can hurt you, as they are small enough to get past your body’s defenses. No other machine used for wood waste elimination, including grinders and chippers, can control PM2.5 as well as an Air Burners machine. Our air curtain works.”
Eliminate wood waste and debris efficiently and investigate the potential for biochar in your market. Burning onsite eliminates the need for grinders and trucks. Plus, it is much faster, saving you money and protecting the environment. If you are using general incineration, there is a better way. For more information on Air Burners technology and solutions, visit www.airburners.com or call (772) 220-7303.
