CREMATION COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT
◉ Primary Burner . Answer: A burner installed in the primary
combustion chamber to dry out and ignite the material to be burned
◉ Secondary Burner . Answer: A burner installed in the secondary
combustion chamber to maintain temperature and complete the
combustion process (sometimes referred to as an afterburner)
◉ Burning Rate . Answer: The amount of waste incinerated per unit
time, usually expressed in pounds per hour.
◉ Calcination . Answer: The process of reducing human remains to its
basic elements in the form of bone fragments through heat and vibration,
less the element of flame due to controlled oxygen
◉ Combustion . Answer: The process in which external heat energy
starts a chemical reaction between fuel and oxygen. Heat, fuel and
oxygen are the three elements required for a combustion to take place
, ◉ Cremation . Answer: The process of reducing human remains to its
basic elements in the form of bone fragments through flame, heat and
vaporization
◉ Cremation Container . Answer: The case in which the human body is
delivered to the crematory and in which it is cremated
◉ Cremator . Answer: The total mechanical unit for the cremation
process
◉ Emission . Answer: Combustion products such as smoke, soot,
sulfur dioxide, etc.
◉ EPA . Answer: United States Environmental Protection Agency
◉ Cold Hearth . Answer: A surface upon which waste material is
placed to dry and/or burn aided by the action of hot combustion gases
passing only over the waste material
◉ Hot Hearth . Answer: A surface upon which waste material is placed
to dry and/or burn aided by the action of hot combustion gases that pass
first over the waste material, and then under the hearth
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT
◉ Primary Burner . Answer: A burner installed in the primary
combustion chamber to dry out and ignite the material to be burned
◉ Secondary Burner . Answer: A burner installed in the secondary
combustion chamber to maintain temperature and complete the
combustion process (sometimes referred to as an afterburner)
◉ Burning Rate . Answer: The amount of waste incinerated per unit
time, usually expressed in pounds per hour.
◉ Calcination . Answer: The process of reducing human remains to its
basic elements in the form of bone fragments through heat and vibration,
less the element of flame due to controlled oxygen
◉ Combustion . Answer: The process in which external heat energy
starts a chemical reaction between fuel and oxygen. Heat, fuel and
oxygen are the three elements required for a combustion to take place
, ◉ Cremation . Answer: The process of reducing human remains to its
basic elements in the form of bone fragments through flame, heat and
vaporization
◉ Cremation Container . Answer: The case in which the human body is
delivered to the crematory and in which it is cremated
◉ Cremator . Answer: The total mechanical unit for the cremation
process
◉ Emission . Answer: Combustion products such as smoke, soot,
sulfur dioxide, etc.
◉ EPA . Answer: United States Environmental Protection Agency
◉ Cold Hearth . Answer: A surface upon which waste material is
placed to dry and/or burn aided by the action of hot combustion gases
passing only over the waste material
◉ Hot Hearth . Answer: A surface upon which waste material is placed
to dry and/or burn aided by the action of hot combustion gases that pass
first over the waste material, and then under the hearth
