Komar equipment can safely and efficiently process all types of hazardous waste, such as:

• Drummed Waste
• Resins
• Tars
• Paint Sludge
• Soils
• Rocks
• Asphalt
• much, much more

When processing your hazardous waste with our auger/processor, you can do the 3 steps – shredding, blending and feeding – using just one Komar machine! Here are some of the benefits of this Komar auger/processor:

• Fully Automated System for Classified Areas
• Nitrogen or Negative Air Enclosed Processing
• Capacities from 90-kg. to 9100-kg. per hour.

• Operating efficiency;
• Proper receiving/staging;
• Controlled processing;
• Operational considerations.

A major problem facing incinerators is the ability to maintain constant throughput, while optimizing permitted incinerator capacity. Consumption of various materials with disproportionate BTU levels creates an inconsistent burn level. Explosions and spiking cause disproportionate consumption of oxygen in the incinerator, leading to inefficiency, automatic shutdown and damage to the kilns. For example, commercial rotary kilns, licensed and permitted to operate at certain temperature levels, experience automatic shutdown if temperature variances exceed or drop below given preset points. If spikes could be minimized, efficiency would rise and profits would increase as a result of the steady, consistent throughput.

Upon acceptance of the waste, thorough inspection and documentation of the waste received allows for proper mixtures, both chemically and physically. All waste is sampled and properly staged prior to being stored/processed.

The inspection and characterization of the waste includes rating the waste in one of the following categories, so that blends of these categories can be developed to improve processing results:

• Liquid: flowable, pumpable and water-like;
• Sludge: high-viscosity material that may have thixotropic properties – wet cake mix;
• Semi-solid: sludge with suspended solids;
• Tar: high viscosity, tacky – may have thixotropic properties;
• Solid: hard material that will fracture when high torque is applied.
• Mixed: any of the above, with no one type representing 50%.

In view of the flammability and/or reactive nature of the waste and the sometimes-toxic characteristics of the emissions, processing in an inert environment with venting to appropriate apparatus becomes increasingly important. Because of the volumes and the diversity of the waste received, most facilities will require blending and size reduction of the waste as a part of the processing. The operators must become ‘blend masters’. Their tools will become as important as their expertise.

Unfortunately, the processor has little control over the contents of the drum when it arrives on the site; however, the operators have total control over the equipment they select and the manner in which they operate it.

• Limit Employee Exposure
• Reduced Temperature and CO Spikes Plus Fewer Automatic Kiln Shutdowns and Fewer Permit Violations
• Higher Throughputs
• Reduced Fire and Risk Hazard
• Longer Kiln-Brick Life