What is an Incinerator?
Old The process of burning, setting fire to or destroying. New An Engineered process using controlled flame combustion to thermally degrade waste materials. Incinerators of today are designed to efficiently and safely burn wastes at specified rates and temperatures with the residual ash containing little or no combustible material.
The term incinerate means to burn something until nothing is left but ashes. An incinerator is a unit or facility used to burn trash and other types of waste until it is reduced to ash. An incinerator is constructed of heavy, well-insulated materials, so that it does not give off extreme amounts of external heat. The high levels of heat are kept inside the furnace or unit so that the waste is burned quickly and efficiently. If the heat were allowed to escape, the waste would not burn as completely or as rapidly.
