A Medical Waste Processor (MWP) is proposed to safely eliminate medical wastes generated at military and civilian health facilities. It will be designed to occupy minimum space, control sanitary conditions, and will provide a non- toxic recyclable bi-product. The MWP will satisfy present and projected environmental specifications for disposal of medical wastes. R&D will address the issue of optimizing all desirable properties as to disposition of medical wastes even in restrictive incinerator locations and conditions. For example, the MWP will not require special storage or handling of the generated bi- products. The system design will utilize new technology for fly-ash recovery processing along with low cost, high reliability, ease of construction and implementation. This R&D effort will optimize structural, safety, and sanitary requirements at the same time. Other properties requiring tradeoff optimization include: facility constraints, health, habitability, handling of the processed waste, size, weight and power requirements. Design will take into account conforming the system for shaping to minimize use of present incinerator interior spaces.
