How Does A Portable Trash Incinerator Work? Do You Need An Oil Away Attachment?

by Granite Environmental Tech Guys
(Florida, USA)

A customer contacted us with the following questions:
1. Do you have to use an oil away attachment with the portable small scale trash incinerator?
2. What happens when the incinerator top is damaged?
3. What is the general burn time?
4. What is the oil away attachment designed for?

Here the response from our Granite Environmental tech guys:

To question 1: The oil away attachment can be used with the small scale trash incinerator but doesn't have to. If the oil away attachment isn't needed at any given time, the portable incinerator will work just fine alone.

You simply have to disconnect the hose and fire the trash incinerator normally. The stand-pipe will remain in the drum but it is designed to take the heat of the portable incinerator and will not be affected.

To question 2: If the top of the oil away drum is damaged it shouldn't cause any serious issues. The oil away pump merely rests in one of the bung holes in the top of the drum and pumps the oil. As long as the top of the drum is solid enough to bear the weight of the pump and keep it upright, it should work fine.

However, the small scale incinerator drum does need to be structurally sound.

To question 3: Typically a general burn time for this portable trash incinerator is one hour burning the type of materials the customer described. The materials may burn faster or slower, depending on the exact composition of the material.

To question 4: The oil away equipment itself is designed to burn large quantities of oil (or assist the portable trash incinerator with burning wet material). In case smaller amounts of oil are used the trash incinerator can burn it with other things like cardboard, absorbents, etc. That oil can certainly be burned directly in the portable trash incinerator without the oil away attachment.

Benefits of a portable small scale trash incinerator are
- uses NO external fuel
- air powered
- simply to load
- burning refuse with no smoke or smell
- ash equal to 3 % by volume of original load when combustion is complete

Portable trash incinerator burns
• oil soaked absorbent materials
• used filters
• waste oil
• paper waste
• wood by-products
• oily rags, gloves, clothes
• grease
• domestic waste

Find out more about our portable trash incinerators.