Incinerator (marine)

A marine incinerator is a shipboard furnace that burns sludge oil, oily rags, food and domestic waste, and other permitted garbage at high temperature to reduce the waste the ship must land ashore. It burns at a furnace temperature of about 850 to 1,200 degrees C with auxiliary oil-fired support burners, and shipboard incineration is governed by MARPOL Annex VI Regulation 16; units fitted from 1 January 2000 must be type approved to IMO resolution MEPC.244(66) (the standard specification, adopted 2014), which sets the flue-gas and combustion-chamber outlet requirements. Cargo residues, PCBs, and Annex II substances cannot be burned.