Buddhist Community Innovation Development for Natural Energy Waste Incinerator and Environmentally Friendly
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This research study aimed to 1) investigate waste management problems, 2) develop an environmentally friendly biomass energy waste incinerator prototype, and 3) evaluate the efficiency of the environmentally friendly biomass waste incinerator. A qualitative research methodology was employed, including in-depth interviews with 21 key informants and focus group discussions with 9 participants, along with experiments burning waste in various ratios.
Research findings revealed:
1) Waste management problems stemmed from accumulating solid waste from teaching activities and increasing personnel numbers. People needed to change the way they thought about waste management by combining what they knew about the Four Paths of Accomplishment (desire, persistence, attention, and investigation) with information about how to separate waste into five groups: food waste, recyclable waste, material/wood waste, hazardous waste, and non-recyclable waste.
2) The development of the environmentally friendly biomass energy waste incinerator prototype considered five aspects of value: designing a small incinerator from high-temperature resistant steel, energy conservation by using dry waste as fuel instead of diesel oil, reducing pollution and being environmentally friendly, promoting proper waste management, and creating added value from waste incineration.
3) Efficiency evaluation through experiments with various waste ratios and pre-incineration waste sorting resulted in gasoline and wood vinegar production. The incinerator could dispose of up to 200 kilograms of waste per hour and a half, demonstrating its efficiency in environmentally friendly waste management.
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