The new 35-tonne air burner at Fort Bay harbour with Commissioner Bruce Zagers (right) and ROI technical team of ROI and Johnson’s Enterprises representatives.
SABA–The modern Envirosaver 350 air burner of Ragnar Original Innovation (ROI) has arrived in Saba and was transported and installed at the landfill. It will be put into use in the coming week.
The 35-tonne air burner was delivered by transport ship Midnight Coast. Her arrival into the harbour was witnessed by Governor Jonathan Johnson, Commissioner Bruce Zagers, harbour and landfill crews, ROI representatives from New Hampshire and facilitating company Johnson’s Enterprises of Aruba.
After it was off-loaded, the air burner, equipped with tracks, was driven up to the landfill and placed next to the recycling building, away from the gut where the old air burner is located.
Testing took place over the weekend, closely monitored by ROI Envirosaver technicians Paul Crinklaw and Matt Skinner, and Ian Lejuez, Andrew Lejuez and Jonathan Tromp of Johnson’s Enterprises. Zagers was also at hand.
The new air burner can handle three to four times the volume of the old one. It burns the garbage at a higher temperature and generates less smoke. Due to its larger size, the new burner will only have to operate a few times a week. Daily burning will no longer be necessary.
The new unit uses an air curtain to contain smoke and heat and will replace the current, much smaller air burner which has been in operation for many years to burn the non-recyclable garbage.
Zagers said of the new burner: “We wanted to take another step into waste management.” However, he emphasised that it remains very important to separate glass, plastics, cardboard, aluminium and metal for recycling purposes: “The more is recycled, the less we have to burn.”
The ash left from the burning will be deposited at the landfill.
The new burner tracks make it easy to relocate if needed and it can be tilted to safely remove ash and residue. It will no longer be necessary to remove ash manually; a big improvement in terms of health and safety at the landfill.
The new burner was designed in the United States and manufactured in Ontario, Canada. “We have a first. There is no other like it in the Caribbean,” said Zagers.
Tromp said Johnson’s Enterprises also had an air burner at the dump in Aruba, but not as advanced as the new one in Saba.
Zagers, Head of the Planning Bureau Bobby Zagers and landfill manager Arnold Hassell went to Canada last year to look at the possibilities for a new air burner. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management financed the new burner.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/84951-new-air-burner-in-place-in-saba
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