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GOVERNMENT SERVICE
US GOVERNMENT PROJECTS
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S-327
at Los Alamos National Labs ( 2002-2005)
Photo by Kevin N. Roark, Public
Affairs, LANL |
Our Air Burner systems have been
or are being employed by the US Government at many locations and
projects.
For example, a large number of S-327, S-321, S-220, S-111, T400 and
T-200 machines are positioned at the
Navy Bases of Guantanamo Bay (GITMO), on
the Island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, in Iraq and
Afghanistan, all supporting US and NATO military
efforts. Others are operating or were employed at US Military
facilities on islands in the Atlantic Ocean (Ascensions) and Pacific Ocean,
such Johnston Island and other undisclosed locations.
At all these locations the waste stream is combustible material, such as
packing material and household trash and rubbish. Typically such waste
would be burned in open pits. As the air curtain burners are a
pollution control device for open burning, the application here is
classic: smoke is re-burned and the operation is cleaner and faster
improving air quality significantly.
Los Alamos National
Laboratory (LANL) has used our systems in in the
Cerra Grande Wildfire Rehab Project as part of its wildfire
rehabilitation efforts. The wood waste was removed from the burned forest areas
where it posed a forest fire danger and taken to
a collection site. Useful wood was given away to the public as
firewood, and the waste wood was burned in our air curtain burners.
From July 2002 to 2005, an S-327 was scheduled to operate 24 hours a
day at least four days a week. Upon completion, the S-327 was
donated to an Indian Reservation.
The US Forest Service and
US National Park Service use our machines at various locations in
the management of our national forests. The
Bureau of Indian Affairs has funded
fireboxes for use on Indian Land, mostly for wildfire mitigation
programs. Under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security,
a number of our machines have been placed in position to deal with such
contingencies as bio terrorism or AG Terror. If ever a large herd
of cattle, for example, were to contract BSE ("Mad Cow Disease") or be
deliberately poisoned (Agriculture Terror), the machines would support
disaster recovery helping to safely destroy diseased or poisoned animals
to protect public health. Our machines play a
major roll in storm debris disposal as part of disaster recovery operations by FEMA and the
Corps of Engineers nationwide.
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S-217
at EPA Superfund Site (Coleman-Evans, July 2002) |
The EPA/US Army Corps of
Engineers in conjunction with the Florida Department of Environment (DEP), contractor Weston Solutions
and others have used an S-217 firebox to dispose of wood
waste (mostly stumps) at the Coleman-Evans
Superfund Cleanup Site in Jacksonville, Florida in July, 2002.
The image to the left was taken by a live
Perceptual Robotics Web Camera that was installed at the
Coleman-Evans
Superfund Site accessible by the public via the Internet.
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