Refuse destructors : with results up to present time / [Charles Jones].

  • Charles Jones
Date:
1894
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    wonder the question of cost was raised. At Ealing we have a fire-bar area of 7ft. 9m. by 4ft. I find this amply sufficient for seven cells. The reason cinders are not used is simply that, having to burn all our sewage sludge with the house refuse, we find it necessary to retain the whole of the ashes for the purpose of combustion in the Destructor Cells. With reference to the utilisation of the Cremator up to the present, and in answer to certain queries raised with respect to its continuous use and the material employed, I may state that out of 397 Destructor cells now at work there are no fewer than 252 cells in which the fumes from the same are being treated by Jones’ Fume Cremator. Forty separate Destructors have been erected since the year 1887 ; thirty-eight of these are fitted with the same apparatus. With respect to the Cremator at Ealing, it has been at work night and day from the year 1885, Sundays and week-days, and has never been out except for more than 14 to 2 r days in each year, and then only for the necessary repairs to Cremator and Destructor. I have communicated with someengineers in reference to the queries raisedandstatements made, and in reply a well-known engineer, Mr. Cox, C.E.,Engineer to the Bradford Corporation (who has, perhaps, the largest experience upon this matter), says -“ Our Cremators were erected to deal with the difficulties which we had to contend against, and not for deputations to visit. They have been burning continuously from the time they were built.” Mr. Lowe, of Hampstead, says “ Our Cremators are kept going night and day. We consume a certain quantity of rough dust or cinders for supplying the Cremators, at the cost of screening.” Mr. Mawbey, of Leicester, says:—“We use about one ton of screened ash per day for the Cremator.” Mr. Wardle, of Longton, writes :—“We use screened ashes, with a little coke breeze, from the Gas Works.” House Refuse and Sewage Sludge. Knowing the view that I have always taken in connection with Destructors and sewage sludge, it would hardly be expected that I should conclude a paper upon this particular question without some
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