China shipped 40 “Mobile Waste and Animal Corpse Disposal Modules” to Wuhan. A manufacturer in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province converted a “mobile medical waste incinerator” to a mobile module that can handle both waste and animal corpses. It could burn 5 tons of waste a day.
Professor Qu Zan from Shanghai Jiao Tong University said that the key to treating medical waste is to kill the virus and the bacteria. The virus cannot live if the module burns the waste at a temperature of 850 Celsius for over two seconds.
According to Xinmin Evening News, a newspaper from Shanghai, each module is of the size of a 20 foot container, with a volume of about 30 cubic meters. It has three parts: a solid waste crushing cabin, an incineration cabin, and a gas purification cabin. It provides mobile disposal solutions for domestic waste, medical waste, and animal corpses.
People, after reading the news, questioned whether it was intended to burn human corpses.
Chinascope did a search on the Internet and found a related report dated 2018 from the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Agricultural Committee, Executive Yuan, Taiwan. The report talked about participating in Japan’s “Epidemic Prevention Drill of Mobile Livestock Rendering Facility.” The mobile modules would crush the cow or pig carcass, sterilize the meat slurry, package them into sealed containers, and then send them to the incinerator.
1. Excerpt in Chinese:
而為了醫療垃圾燃燒使用需求，中國南京一間廠商把「移動式醫療垃圾焚燒方艙」改成「垃圾和動物屍體處置方艙」，這個貨櫃型的裝置已運往武漢，據說每天可焚燒5噸醫療垃圾，也能處理「動物屍體」。
上海交大環境科學與工程學院教授瞿贊介紹，醫療垃圾經焚燒處置關鍵在病毒病菌的去除，在方艙焚燒爐中以850度以上焚燒維持2秒，病毒無法在這種條件下存活，該技術正好能支援目前武漢「醫療廢棄物無害化」的處置，而「方艙」每日可以焚燒、無害化處理醫療垃圾5噸。
Source: Liberty Times, February 19, 2020
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/3072422
2. Excerpt in Chinese:
此次发往武汉的“移动式医疗垃圾焚烧方舱”，每个方舱为20尺标准集装箱大小，体积约为30立方米，包括固废粉碎方舱、焚烧方舱和烟气净化方舱三部分，为应急抢险救灾过程中生活垃圾、医疗垃圾、动物尸体等固废提供移动式的处置方案，实现垃圾减量和无害化处理，焚烧烟气也经过净化达标排放。
Source: Xinmin Evening News, February 17, 2020
http://wap.xinmin.cn/content/31662242.html
3. Source: Taiwan Government Site
https://report.nat.gov.tw/ReportFront/PageSystem/reportFileDownload/C10603687/001