The disposal of municipal refuse . Fig. 45.—Feeding Rubbish into Fig. 46.—Conveyor and Men Sorting out Material. 141 PRACTICAL INCINERATION 143 West Forty-seventh Street Plant, New York City At the request of Commissioner Woodbury, the author,in 1902, designed this plant for the incineration of plant was located on a pier at the foot of West Forty-seventh Street, Borough of Manhattan, City of New site was selected through fear of delays, caused by injunc-tions from neighbors, should the plant be built on land. Prior to the erection of this plant, the material wa
The disposal of municipal refuse . Fig. 45.—Feeding Rubbish into Fig. 46.—Conveyor and Men Sorting out Material. 141 PRACTICAL INCINERATION 143 West Forty-seventh Street Plant, New York City At the request of Commissioner Woodbury, the author,in 1902, designed this plant for the incineration of plant was located on a pier at the foot of West Forty-seventh Street, Borough of Manhattan, City of New site was selected through fear of delays, caused by injunc-tions from neighbors, should the plant be built on land. Prior to the erection of this plant, the material was loadedon scows, Fig. 43, together with ashes and street-sweepings,and dumped at sea or taken to land-fills. A general view of the plant is shown in Fig. 42. Theplant consists of a brick furnace, divided into three cellsarranged in series, so that the hot gases of combustion fromthe first and second cells pass over the third cell on their wayto the stack. Each cell has a grate surface 6 feet long by 5feet wide, or a total grate surface of 90 square feet. Thestack is
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