How does the Air Curtain Burner unit work?
Air curtain burners (ACB) are efficient and safe machines that are loaded up with wood, slash, needles, chips or other wood waste for burning. The ACB blow high velocity air (curtain) across and into a combustion chamber. The curtain of air over oxygenates the fire creating a high degree of combustion which entraps particulates (smoke) limiting the amount of emissions. ACB units produce lower smoke emissions compared to pile burning, they can burn a greater variety of material such as green fuel, operate with fewer weather restrictions, and the fire within the box can easily be contained and extinguished quickly if necessary. The ACB is a recently purchased but widely used piece of equipment that will allow Boulder County to dispose of more wood waste with fewer air quality emissions than slash burning.
