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GOVERNMENT SERVICE
US GOVERNMENT PROJECTS
Our Air Burner systems have been
or are being employed by the US Government at many locations and
for many diverse projects.
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S-220
at Eglin Air Force Base (2010)
Photo by (U.S. Air Force / Samuel King
Jr.) |
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.
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S-327
in transit to a US Naval Base (2010) |
At all these locations the waste stream is combustible material, such as
packing material and household trash and rubbish. Typically such waste
would often 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.
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S-327
at Los Alamos National Labs
(2002-2005)
Photo by Kevin N. Roark,
Public
Affairs, LANL |
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
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S-220
at National Park Service
Rocky Mountain National Park (2009) |
(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.
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.
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S-217
at EPA Superfund Site
(Coleman-Evans, July 2002) |
The image to the right 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.
In 2008, the EPA carried out
elaborate emissions testing with an S-327 in Louisiana. The waste stream
consisted (a) of clean vegetative debris (wood waste) and (b) of
demolition debris from a residential house in New Orleans that was made
unlivable by Hurricane Katrina. The entire house was demolished and
burned in the S-327 FireBox. The extensive emissions sampling has been
analyzed and the related EPA report is expected to be released to the
public in 2012. Official videos from the test can be viewed here:
S-327 Emissions Test EPA Videos.
Under the direction of the
USACE our FireBoxes are being used for waterborne debris disposal, such
as the clean-up in Louisiana, such as the Pearl River from debris caused by
Hurricane Katrina. The S-220 is typically operated at the river's shoreline to
minimize transpiration of the woody debris collected from the waterway.
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