COST EFFECTIVE DIAPER AND SANITARY NAPKIN INCINERATOR USING INDUCTION HEATING

POWER ELECTRONICS

Disposal of sanitary napkin and diapers is a headache for most of the people. A single sanitary pad takes about 500–800 years to decompose. And alone in India every year, around 1250crore (12.5 billion) hygienic pads are disposed of in various landfills and dumpsites across the country. People who live close to the water bodies throw these wastes into the water causing massive health and environmental hazards. Due to limited awareness some people dispose them by means of toilets thereby causing choking. Whereas some others throw these wastes directly into the public dustbins, which eventually end up in landfills. In rural areas people prefer to wash napkins and either bury them or burn them. In all these prior menƟoned acƟviƟes, polluƟon is a must thing. The improper management of these wastes may cause major environmental damages which leads to air, water and land polluƟon. Heaps of sanitary napkins with a large number of disease-causing bacteria on them pose a significant threat to the hygiene in the surrounding area. Young girls and even certain older women are not aware of the hygiene problems cause by improper disposal of Napkins. We can rely on Incinerators to solve these issues. But the present model incinerator has a major drawback, as it emits toxic gas directly into the atmosphere. Emission of such gases is highly dangerous. These Electrical incinerators consume high power. In the proposed model, incinerator is designed using inducƟon heaƟng which reduces the power consumpƟon and also less smoke is produced by this method compared to other method, therefore it is eco-friendly. It is also an efficient heaƟng method compared to other heaƟng methods as the byproduct obtained is in the form of ash.

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