1990 年 69 巻 11 号 p. 1028-1033
In the course of carrying out periodical shut down, repairing or renovation work of plants such as power plant, oil refinary and chemical plants, large quantity of discarded insulation materials are produced. And disposal of those materials claims major cost to contractors. In additions, the capacity of disposal lots are decreasing year by year. This is an another social problem.
Under such circumstances, Nichias has realized the device which can decrease volume of discarded insulation materials to 1/5 to 1/15 by means of crushing, pressing method under ambient temperature.
This is to refer to technical matters, the outline of device and operational process, capacity, experiences, prevention of environmental hazards, installation location, legal requirements of carrying the disposal business and effective utilization of the discarded insulation materials.