What can you do with a Firelake incinerator? The list grows. The latest trends for uses of incineration equipment are focused on legalized marijuana operations, pet cremation, and contraband disposal. What kind of incinerator is needed to meet these needs? One incinerator option is the small efficient B model that offers quick preheating Continue Reading
Firelake Incinerator, Load, Push START, Leave
Yes, it is that E-A-S-Y to operate. Open the balanced load door, place the waste or animals inside, close the loading door, latch it, and push START. Now you have time to go do other tasks while the Firelake incinerator does its work. The burners fire automatically and stop automatically. When you return in a few hours, later that day, or Continue Reading
Trays Allow Economic Private Pet Cremation
Firelake Manufacturing offers cremation trays to allow fuel savings while maintaining the integrity of separated remains. The blue bags in the photo hold individual animals, and depending on the size, as many as six or more trays can be stacked in one batch. When the animals are consumed the trays settle down on each other and contain the Continue Reading
Firelake Design, 5 Minutes and Running
A Firelake animal cremator in western Virginia sensed a problem and decided not to allow its preheat burner to operate. This is a safety feature built into all Firelake burners. The fault prevented the clinic from providing a pet cremation that was very important to customer satisfaction. Fortunately, Firelake cremation systems can Continue Reading
Animal Cremator P16 Start-up
A Firelake P16 was professionally installed and started last week in Appalachia. Housed inside a steel and block structure this unit should provide comfort to operators and protect the cremator from weather. Preheat is achieved in minutes. The operator can initiate the cremation process with the digital timer and walk off to do other work. Continue Reading
Oily Waste and Solid Waste Incinerator
Firelake designed and fabricated two 40 foot tall Model P50 incinerators for a northern client. Shipping in January 2016 the units are tailored to dispose of oily waste, solids, wood, grease, papers, and other industrial and camp items. A nominal capacity of 1600 pounds of waste can be loaded in to each. The incinerators have automatic Continue Reading
Want to incinerate, but do you know Incineration?
The trend in incineration is to ask for the "best technology", or "ask for the same specifications another country or state uses". This thinking loses focus on meeting needs and balancing costs. Here are some examples. We want a minimum Primary burn chamber temperature: It is not possible to establish and maintain high Continue Reading
Craft Industry Uses Firelake’s as Kilns/Dryers
Firelake chambers and burners provide heat and containment to process handiwork in to a final workable component. Product smoking, heating, curing, glazing, drying, or setting can be accomplished with controlled accuracy. Steel exteriors and lined refractory cast interiors maintain the process automatically. Easily adjusted from low heat to Continue Reading
Fish Disposal in the Midwest
A research site near the upper Mississippi River uses the Firelake P25 design to dispose of materials from their lab. The P25 is a grated unit that creates a flame under the grates and allows the heat to rise through the waste. Ashes are free to fall to the bottom of the chamber and easily removed by pulling the ash from an access door at the Continue Reading
Incinerators That Last
Over twenty years ago a cremator was installed in southern Pennsylvania. Experience in cremator design is measured in decades at Firelake. There are many locations where our A, C, and P Series incinerators are working many years after commissioning. Small units and large units, propane, natural gas, and diesel burners. Medical waste, Continue Reading