With the development of pharmaceutical industry in Palestine, the land suffers from solid hazardous waste, which becomes more priority issue compete country, so the responsibility of all residence is to address this problem by using sustainable methods that is environmentally friendly.
The main objective of this project is to treat hazardous pharmaceutical solid waste by incineration. Incineration at high temperature is the safe and effective technology for converting pharmaceutical hazardous solid waste to stable compound by completes combustion, applying this project has importance such as attractive method for waste disposal instead of different contaminated methods like land fill or open burning.
The project consists of two stages, the first one was designing and constructing the pyrolytic incinerator, and the second stage was operated it at high temperature to study the mass reduction, gas and ash produced during combustion. Three experiments were done; the first one was to study the mass reduction of pharmaceutical solid waste during combustion at 920°C in incinerator with different residence time, the second one was to analyze gas produced throughout combustion of waste and to detect the relationship between gases produced with different residence time, the final experiment was to analyze the composition of the remained after combustion of waste.
The results obtained from these experiments are: mass reduction of (> 90%) of waste with increased the residence time, and reducing the amount of hazard gases (CO, SO2, NOX ) with increasing the residence time and amount of O2 .
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