Talk:Incineration

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Alex 11:23, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] General comments

I believe the article reads more correctly now. I will be tweaking it to be NPOV or manipulated by misleading terms related to other forms of waste facility I have also put strikethroughs on most of the discussion below which dates back from articles that no longer exist or are relevant.--Alex 08:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Alex, I think you did an excellent job of blending the two merged articles. The only major comment I have is that the "Outputs from incineration" section should be combined with the "Pollution" section, which I will do in the next hour or so. Once again, great work!! - mbeychok 15:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind comments! --Alex 15:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
This article has just had the Waste-to-energy plant article merged into it by Alex (see just below). As a result, it now has two displays of the same photo, two "External links" sections, two sections discussing how incinerators and waste-to-energy plants work, two similar discussion about the air pollutants in the combustion flue gases including diooxins and furans, and other such duplicate discussions of various items.
The article now needs someone with expertise and real-world experience in this field to blend the two articles together and to remove all of the duplicating information. - mbeychok 17:47, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clean-up tag removed

I have removed the clean-up tag because the article has been re-written, re-arranged and largely cleaned during yesterday and today. That is not to say that it is perfect ... it still needs source referencing quite badly and perhaps more Wikifying. But it is a great deal better than it was. - mbeychok 19:58, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I have done quite a bit more Wikifying, adding additional information and references. I think the article is now in fairly good shape. - mbeychok 05:08, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coverage of aspects of incineration: incinerator design and technology

This article seems to have plenty about the effect on the environment, but where can people find useful matter about the design and technology of incinerators? Anthony Appleyard 12:01, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

This would be an ideal expansion of the incineration article. Comparisons between fluidised bed technology and other aspects such as gas clean up would be very useful. I do not have the knowledge to help in this area. --Alex 07:37, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Fluidized bed technology is used in other fields too, creating a seperate aticle to discribe the technology might be best.Walter Hartmann 02:45, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

See Fluidization and Fluidized bed reactor. They're very general. This incineration article is the best place to describe fluid bed incineration in particular, and comparison to other incinerator technologies such as multiple-hearth, rotary kiln, travelling grate, etc.BSMet94 04:39, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV in alterations on 12 October 2006

Alterations made on 21 October 2006 (see [1]) have a pattern of deletions that look like non-NPOV towards modern incinerators and away from old incinerators, including trying to rename the process of incineration. I have put some of this deleted matter back in this editing. Anthony Appleyard 08:05, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Anthony I agree. When I was combining the two old articles of incineration and waste-to-energy plant I tried to keep a valid balance between what modern incinerators are and what the old incinerators were like. I also created a new article waste-to-energy for disambiguation as there are other forms of plant to produce energy from waste without incineration.--Alex 10:06, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Argument against

I already see in the article part of the problem that exists with perceptions of incineration. Arguments against (in the article) include dioxin/furan emissions, heavy metals emissions, etc. You can't just say that as a blanket "argument against". It needs to be stated as follows: "dioxin/furan emissions in <waste type> incinerators." This failure to attache specific pollutants to specific waste types is what scares people (intentionally sometimes, by certain people) into thinking that all incineration pollutes with all of these scary chemicals, so naturally the uneducated will oppose even the most innocuous municipal sewage sludge incinerator. BSMet94 17:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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