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SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1978

ENGINEERS VISIT KWAI CHUNG INCINERATOR

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ABOUT 30 MEMBERS OF THE HONG KONG INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS SPENT THIS AFTERNOON VISITING THE $150 MILLION KWAI CHUNG

INCINERATOR NOW NEAR COMPLETION.

THEY WERE CONDUCTED ON À TOUR OF THE PLANT BY THE PRINCIPAL GOVERNMENT ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER, MR. GRAHAM OSBORNE- MR. MICHAEL HUTTON, GOVERNMENT ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER AND SEVERAL ENGINEERS FROM THE P.W.D.'S ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL OFFICE.

MR. OSBORNE SAID THAT THE INCINERATOR, THE LARGEST MODERN REFUSE DISPOSAL PLANT IN HONG KONG WOULD BEGIN OPERATION IN OCTOBER.

THE PLANT HAD A 150-METRE TALL CHIMNEY THE TALLEST IN HONG KONG AND MR. OSBORNE SAID THE REASON FOR BUILDING THIS TALL CHIMNEY WAS TO ACHIEVE BETTER DISPERSION OF FUMES SO AS TO MINIMISE POLLUTION.

+ALSO, THE INCINERATOR PLANT ITSELF IS EQUIPPED WITH EFFICIENT DUST EXTRACTION EQUIPMENT TO REDUCE DUST EMISSION, + HE SAID.

MR. OSBORNE EMPHASISED THAT DISPOSAL OF REFUSE BY THE PROCESS OF INCINERATION HAD TWO MAJOR BENEFITS.

+ONE OF THEM IS THE REDUCTION OF THE VOLUME OF THE ORIGINAL WASTE BY 15 TIMES AFTER INCINERATION,+ HE SAID.

+THE OTHER BENEFIT IS THAT THE HEAT PRODUCED BY COMBUSTION OF THE REFUSE CAN BE USED TO PRODUCE STEAM FOR THE GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY WHICH WILL BE USED TO OPERATE THE INCINERATION PLANT.+

MR. OSBORNE POINTED OUT THAT THE NEW INCINERATOR WOULD BE CAPABLE OF HANDLING SOME 900 TONNES OF REFUSE A DAY.

IT WOULD NORMALLY OPERATE 24 HOURS A DAY AND WOULD PROVIDE A SIGNIFICANT ADDITIONAL MEANS OF COPING WITH THE GROWING AMOUNT OF REFUSE COLLECTED EACH DAY.

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