Environmental protection and safety inspired our innovative solution for combating fires in waste bunkers at incineration plants.
Smouldering fires frequently break out in stored waste, often releasing highly toxic fumes deep down in the deposits.
While fires on the surface of the waste can easily be removed by grabbers and transferred to the incinerator, fires deeper down cannot even be extinguished with water or foam, since these agents are not able to reach the source of the fire.
Our recently developed process solves this problem by using special nozzles to pipe carbon dioxide directly to the source, where it quenches the fire, preventing further release of toxic and pollutant fumes.
An additional benefit is that using carbon dioxide keeps the waste dry and easier to incinerate than it would be following the use of liquid fire-fighting agents.
We have applied for a patent on this innovative extinguishing system, which has already been installed in ten large German waste incineration plants where it is setting new safety standards.
