LBI-500 500 kg hazardous waste incinerator

The LBI-500 is rated at 500 kg/h continuously, so throughput is a function of how many hours you run it rather than how many cycles you complete. Running it for an eight-hour shift clears roughly 4,000 kg. The 500 kg figure in the model name is the chamber charge, not a daily ceiling.

Continuous. The LBI-500 holds its rated 500 kg/h for as long as it is fed, so you can keep loading through a shift without waiting for a cycle to finish. Fewer, longer burns use less fuel than repeatedly bringing the refractory up from cold.

The LBI-500 is specified for contaminated land arisings, spill response & incident waste, flytipping & land clearance, flood & storm clearance, marine, harbour & beach debris and water treatment residues. It reaches 850–1,200°C and holds flue gas above 850°C for two seconds in the secondary chamber, which is the Industrial Emissions Directive condition for these streams. Waste containing more than 1% halogenated organic content raises that secondary-chamber minimum to 1,100°C.

The LBI-500 measures 4680 × 2530 × 2760 mm (L × W × H) externally and weighs 3.8 t installed. You need clear working space around it for the front doors to swing and for ash removal, plus a stack whose height comes out of a site-specific dispersion assessment rather than a standard figure.

Yes. Running this unit needs an environmental permit from the Environment Agency in England and Wales, SEPA in Scotland or NIEA in Northern Ireland. The waste codes for environmental waste have to be named in the application, and a permit written for general waste does not silently cover them. We supply the technical data pack the permit application relies on.

The LBI-500 runs on natural gas, hydrogen, diesel, LPG or biofuel through 3 burners. Being hydrogen-ready matters if you expect to decarbonise the site later: the unit does not need replacing when the fuel supply changes.

Thirty minutes from cold to operating temperature. From there it runs between 850°C and 1,200°C, with a 2.0-second gas retention time in the secondary chamber and a Coretex refractory lining. Control is through an IP6X-rated PLC panel.

Ash residue is 3–5% of input mass, so roughly 95% of what you load stops being a disposal cost. On a 500 kg charge that leaves about 20 kg of ash to remove — the only fraction still attracting gate fees and Landfill Tax.

20,000 kg of bagged clearance waste against 500 kg/h is 40 hours on paper, or about 55–60 with a saturated load — a week of double-shift running rather than the month a consignment schedule would take. Surge capacity is bought for the week it is needed, not the fifty it is not, so the honest comparison is against what the same backlog costs in consignments and storage while it waits — including the licence conditions that apply to holding it.

Not usefully, and we would rather say so than sell you a machine for it. Soil is mineral: it does not burn, it comes out at close to the weight that went in, and it occupies the chamber the whole time. Bulk contaminated soil belongs in thermal desorption, soil washing or licensed treatment. What this unit takes from a remediation site is the contaminated materials — sorbents, geotextiles, liners, PPE, debris, screenings.

Because the scope is hazardous. Standard rules permits do not cover hazardous waste incineration, so the application is bespoke and carries a site-specific dispersion assessment. That assessment is normally the longest item in the programme, which is why it should start before the unit is ordered rather than after it arrives.

Asbestos, gas cylinders and aerosols, drums or containers with free liquid, batteries, electrical items and anything radioactive. On this stream those things are found rather than declared, which is why the assessment step exists — a flytipped load or a flood clearance will contain at least one of them often enough that screening is the operating discipline, not a precaution.