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Incineration Plant
When the garbage truck had finished collecting the trash, the truck would deliver the trash to the incinerator plant to burn them up. There were three incinerator plants in Taipei, Ne Hu incinerator, Mu Zha incinerator, and Bei Tou incinerator. Miss Zou, our teacher, had taken us to visit Ne Hu incinerator plant which was the first incinerator in Taiwan.
Ne Hu Incinerator Plant
When we arrived at Nei Hu incinerator plant, there was an aunt who gave us a brief introduction about Nei Hu incinerator plant. From the brief introduction, we knew the Department of Environmental Protection of the Taipei City Government (TDEP) implemented a" Ten year plan for treating Taipei's Garbage ". Thus the department began planning for the establishment of incinerators in 1985. Nei Hu incinerator was the first incinerator to be planned, built and operational .The start-up and trial burning procedures were begun in 1991 and the plant became fully operational and administered by the TDEP in January 1992. It is the first large-scale, high-efficiency refuse incinerator in Taiwan .It burns all combustible material and reduces the volume of refuse to one-tenth the original volume.
In the incinerator plant, the staff would throw the garbage into the garbage pit, then using big tongs to put the garbage into the incinerator for burning. After burning, there were five kinds of remnants, liquid waste, waste gas, bottom ashes, flying ashes, and the incombustibles. The residual was sent to a qualified recycling plant. The heat generated from burning the refuse was recovered by a heat recovery boiler and transformed into power which operated steam turbines that generated electricity .By incinerating garbage we could effectively reduce the amount of waste in an environmentally safe manner so that the resulting ashes were not harmful to the environment and the heat produced could be recovered and recycled in a profitable manner. Furthermore, the incinerator had a lot of public facilities (e.g. indoor swimming pool, activity center and tennis court), which was a benchmark of community relations and exemplary model for other incinerators in Taiwan.