Converter Waste Treatment

Converter is a waste sterilizer that, at the state of the art, is really uniquein his kind, having prevented and even today overcome the prescription of the Kyoto protocol regardingthe waste.
Better then an autoclaves, which operate under pressure andtherefore consume a lot of energy, the Converter sterilizer, tough applying thesame sterilizing method, referred to as moist heat, works under a lightvacuum, so performing in this way a very simple process although far moreefficient. The resulting sterilized product corresponds to a simple municipalwaste, which looks like free-flowing small granules with characteristicssimilar to sawdust, dehydrated and with an high calorific power, good forthermal stations (i.e. the obtained Municipal Solid Waste can be utilized as areal Refuse Derived Fuel).

Converter sterilizers are in use in several hospitals andtreatment stations around the world: Italy, Romania, China,Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, Botswana,Russia,etc. It was projected fortreating and sterilize allmedical waste that can be dangerous for man and animals, because of thepotential pathogens bioburden. The process develops into simples steps,which are performed in a unique chamber,as hereunder shortly described:

Crushingat high speed, meanwhile providing heating of the medical waste by frictions, dehydrationby evaporation of allthe humidity

Sterilization realized byinjecting water on the hot material once reached the temperature over 150? C Cooling downand unloading.

Converter is a waste treter and sterilizer that reduce waste of 70% in volume and 30% in weight.