Does anyone legally incinerate?

I recover and refine precious metals and purchase my scrap from scrapers with consideration to how I have to process it. For example, I don't process flatpacks simply because they require either wet ashing (which is a very dangerous acid reduction) or incineration. If I knew of someone I could trust, who could legally incinerate and used the correct equipment so that the values were not flying up the smoke stack, I would pay to have material reduced to ash so I could process it safely.

So this could be considered a suggestion as a way for someone who has these capabilities to make some money, but also a question, is there anyone on the board that can, or is willing to do this?



Thanks

Scott

Since about 1991 I have hand built venturi filtration systems for my salt water reef tanks.

When I started recovering and refining I discovered that because I was doing it on a small scale, I had to build most of my own equipment with the exception of things like a fume hood, etc.

I built a venturi wet fume scrubber that draws at 10cfm which is more than enough for several large reaction vessels, then I recover the solution from the scrubber which is basically weak nitric acid, and use it for other parts of my process. If you ever get to the point where you need to build a wet venturi fume scrubber for your idea, let me know. I would be more than happy to help.

Scott

As a boilermaker i can tell you that we have units that are fueled by bio mass / garbage. Also ethanol refineries dry and burn the left overs from the mash after the alcohol is extracted to produce steam. All of these plants meet epa guidelines for emissions. There is no reason why you couldnt go and make a package boiler sized incinerator or a small 50mw boiler fueled by the material of your choice. You would need to recover the heat and clean the emissions for it to work efficiently and legally. But the emissions controls you talked about are the exact same setup as we build. The smoke goes through the catalyst first, the fabric filter second, the scrubber third, then out the stack. Im not an engineer, i just do what they tell us to do. The problem going large scale is getting the permits and paying off all the politicians to make it happen.

package boiler:
MBB POWER SERVICES INC. SLIDE SHOW

me in the green jacket working on a very small locomotive boiler for a small scale model railroad:
http://local83.shutterfly.com/236

standard emissions/generation schematic:
Diagram of a thermal CHP power plant (Source: ATP). - Image - Power Technology

Originally Posted by DWJ

Is your indicated 10 CFM for a liquid draw, or is that what you draw your exhaust (airborne)fumes at? If you are talking airside exhaust, what FPM do you have you're system calibrated to run? I'd be interested in learning about your specs. Thanks in advance.

The venturi works on water pressure, but it draws air off a T...

A pump, pumps water up to a specific height where it is sprayed down the exhaust stack, the sprinkler is off a tee so the water continues, the pressure is high enough to supply both, to a drop down pipe that feeds into a venturi that has a T, as the water shoots through the venturi, it draws 10cfm off the T into the water, so you are effectively mixing the air with the water, then it drops down into a sump where it is suspended in water and forced into the chamber the exhaust is it, then it has to work it's way through the stacked/packed exhaust pipe only to be sprayed down by the sprinkler, when I have a chance I'll make a diagram if there is interest.

Scott

You can purchase medical incinerators, I have almost done so at auction. It's not the incinerator itself that I have an issue with, there are many different types, sizes, used, etc. It's the EPA requirements. I live in California, near San Francisco. California EPA is extremely strict when it comes to incinerating.

Scott

flatpacks are gpus basically, a fiber cpu without pins is the best way to describe it, i have several pounds of flatpacks ive stripped from boards and removed the built in heatsinks, saving them up for a rainy day i guess

Originally Posted by Bear

What are flatpacks ?

You forgot to take notes;

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

You forgot to take notes;

id call that an ic chip, sounds like our definitions of flat pack vary

Originally Posted by jghilino

id call that an ic chip, sounds like our definitions of flat pack vary

Here is also another pic of a flatpack; the one above is a quad flatpack. Some places "loosely" call them Ic's.

Originally Posted by Bear

What are flatpacks ?

SMTs (Surface Mount Package)

Here are some pictures:









They are usually made of plastic and contain fine gold wires. If processed properly the yields can be decent.

Scott

There was a recent thread on here of a guy who left the east coast somewhere, and moved his operation all the way to, Idaho I believe it was, just for some similar reason( I think he possibly registered here as a buyer recently)

Originally Posted by Bear

You would likely have to ship it out of California then, have it incinerated elsewhere, and then shipped back ?

That's exactly right, or for example, if I purchased a large quantity I would have it shipped directly to my trusted business associate to incinerate, then when they ship it to me it's been reduced so much that it would fit in a small flat rate box. When you ash electronics/plastics, they reduce to almost nothing. You could reduce 25 lbs of plastic to about 1-2 lbs of material.

Scott