The Collection and Disposal of Municipal Waste Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...populated district) can be had, where the collection carts will not be so much in evidence, and where the work can be done with lessened chances for complaints. When a suitable location can be found within reasonable distance, the objections and arguments against it should be carefully stated and fully considered. Opposition for sentimental reasons or through ignorance of the facts involved should not be allowed to outweigh the mature judgment of those best acquainted with the subject. Nuisances Dependent Upon Temperatures. The discharge of offensive gases from a chimney of a refuse disposal plant is caused by incomplete combustion of organic matter. Ths gases thrown off are oxygen, O, nitrogen, N, carbonic acid, C02, carbon monoxide, CO, and water vapor or steam. In theoretically perfect combustion the carbon monoxide burns by uniting with oxygen, leaving the nitrogen--which is inert and incombustible--to be discharged from the chimney. But, in practice, this perfect combustion is rarely reached, hence the proportion of the empyreumatic gases, present in larger or smaller amounts, that are capable of being burned but still are not destroyed, must be taken as an evidence of the character of the work. A competent authority says: "On heating organic compounds, decomposition takes place which is known as destructive distillation. Many of the resulting gaseous compounds have a more or less objectionable odor. When such an admixture of gases is exposed to a higher temperature--which has been fixed at i,500 Fahr. as the safety point--they are themselves dissociated or decomposed, and the resulting simple ga, ses are without odor." Another writer says: "It may be stated as an absolute principle, that the destruction of organisms must be done within t...