Hospital waste incinerator with scrubber 200 kg/h

 

Bio-medical Waste Incinerator for Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

 

Used for incineration of bio-medical (hospital) waste

 

Configuration of incinerator: primary and post combustion chamber, automatic waste feeding system, oil burner, air pollution control system, 15 metres refractory lined stack, PLC operated control panel and portable gas analyzer.

 

A 250 kg/h biomedical waste incinerator was requisitioned by East Africa`s largest hospital.  The work involved civil construction which included a building housing the incinerator and foundations.

 

Kenyatta Hospital, Nairobi set up in the year 1901, is one of the largest and oldest multi-speciality hospitals and medical research centres in East Africa, with a bed strength of 1800. It is also equipped with teaching facilities.

 

It was a privilege for us that one of the largest hospitals chose us for supply of this critical equipment.

 

The contract was won against stiff global competition and our local agent took the responsibility of all civil work.

 

Before the manufacture of the incinerator was started, a team from the hospital visited our factory. The team was drawn from engineering, procurement and housekeeping

departments.  They were greeted with a `Jambo` by some of our staff which took them by surprise.  They responded with a lot of rapid sentences in Swahili, which our people did not follow. We then explained that some of us had lived in Nairobi many years back.

 

They spent 3 working days with us, assessing our facilities, shop load and previous projects. They discussed the design aspects of the system and the APC equipment, control philosophy, etc.

 

There was also a Third Party Inspection agency to monitor the progress at various `hold` points.

 

The incinerator configuration included primary and secondary combustion chambers, wet venturi scrubber and a 30 metre stack. Along with this, we also supplied conveyors for waste loading and a filter press to handle the scrubber bleed.

 

The work was taken up in right earnest after approval of the GA and P&I drawings and was completed on schedule, to the satisfaction of the end user. There was a FAT involving the TPI agency and the end user and it was completed successfully.

 

The entire system was loaded in containers and shipped to Mombasa port from where it was taken to Nairobi which was a good 500 km away.

 

Our team visited Nairobi immediately after and supervised the installation and completed commissioning.