Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Visit to Nagoya City Nanyo Incineration Plant

This is one of the 3 field trips organized by GSID's professors for the NESDB delegates from Thailand. Today's destination is Nagoya City Nanyo Incineration Plant, where all the garbage in Nagoya City, and maybe other places nearby, is disposed. The plant is one of the 4 active garbage disposal plants in Aichi Prefecture (please correct me if I am wrong).

An introduction to incineration and the plant by the chief
(Incineration help dispose garbage more beneficially than landfill. It could reduce the weight of garbage by 20% and its size by 3%; incineration ash can be melted and converted to sand and gravel for roadwork, etc.)

The huge garbage field seen from above through glass window

A model of the incinerator and its description

"Clinkers" are caused by the burning of burnable mixed with unburnable grabage due to the improper classification by households, resulting in badly clung furnace wall.

Before and after "clinkers" are removed from the furnace wall

Incineration flow diagram
Disposing capacity: 500 tons x 3 incinerators/day(24hrs)

The central control room
(2 shifts: 8:30-17:00 & 17:30-8:00)

The uniform of the workers here, I believe.

One of the drawings by primary school kids
"Please don't make the glob a rubbish bin!"

Nagoya City Nanyo Incineration Plant
(it doesn't look like where garbage is burnt. Too clean both outside and inside! No smell and no mess!)

The sea opposite the plant
(...don't know its name.)

Meiko Bridge (the largest in Nagoya and Aichi Pref.)
Sorry, only the cables, not the body, were seen through the bus window.

On the way back to school...
(it looks nicer in reality!)
Tired, sleepy and maybe carsick!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Why you are so precise details!!!!!! i love the way you post it. that is really great job and experience. you are wonderful, and i am lucky to be your friend. i learn something, although i didn't go with you. we should have one in Cambodia soon. anyways, take good care and sleep tight!! with love, Ricky