Protecting the Environment – Your Responsibility

Goal is to familiarize you with:
1. What the environmental concerns are related to cremation.
2. What air pollutants are important.

Objectives upon completing this session, you should be able to:
1. Identify environmental concerns related to cremation.
2. Lists the types of air pollutants of concern that could be emitted to the atmosphere from crematories.
3. Recognize your role in preventing air pollutants.

The Operator’s Role 

It is the operator’s role and responsibility to protect the environment by:
1. Complying with all emission limits and operating practices specified in your permit to operate.
2. Minimizing emissions of particulate matter, carbon monoxide and organic compounds through proper operation of your equipment.
3. Minimizing particulate matter emission from ash handling.
4. Performing regular maintenance inspections to catch any operational problems early.

Basic Combustion Principles

Goal is to familiarize you with:
1. Basic combustion terminology.
2. How the combustion process works and how you affect the process.
3. Indicators of good combustion and poor combustion.

Objective is to familiarize you with:
1. List the three factors that are needed for combustion to occur.
2. List the combustion products that are generated under good combustion and poor combustion conditions.
3. Describe the relationship between the amount of fuel, air, and waste.
4. Describe how combustion air requirements are affected by the combustion process.
5. Describe what happens when you have too much or too little combustion air.
6. Estimate the heating value off different types of cremations.
7. Describe how the combustion gas oxygen level is related to combustion air.
8. Define opacity and describe what happens to opacity under poor combustion conditions.
9. Recognize the definitions of these terms:
– Heating value
– Stoichiometric (theoretical) air
– Excess air
– Products of incomplete combustion
– Starved air