explosion protection Articles

A massive fire and explosion in the dust collection system of a New Hampshire wood pellet manufacturer demonstrates the need for adequate system design to prevent combustible dust explosions in general industry.  We recently published a news article on Environmental-Expert.com about OSHA’s enforcement actions concerning last ...

Centralised treatment of various sources of industrial waste has been established in many European countries over the last decade. Many facilities are still equipped with non state of the art technology and therefore cannot fulfil the broad field of applications with regard to industrial waste remediation. econ's international client decided to be ...

In 2003 econ received an inquiry from a service company operating an industrial waste water treatment plant. At the end of the physical-chemical WWT process this client generated metal-hydroxide sludge from his chamber filter presses. Originally he discharged the sludge into skips and brought it to a hazardous waste landfill. At this ...

The use of subterranean salt mines for the final storage of inorganic hazardous waste is state of the art in Germany, and in fact most other European countries. However, the technical requirements to prepare the waste in an appropriate way are quite challenging. Over ten years ago econ supplied a plant to a salt mine in eastern Germany. The ...

Type      HOFGAS®- Efficiency 2500 (2x)  Commissioning      2003 Site      Bandeirantes(Saõ Paulo, BR)    Situation The landfill of Saõ Paulo, the largest city in South America, extends over 140 ha. For a period of 4 more years several thousands tons of waste ...

Type HOFGAS® - Ready/C 300  Commissioning 2004Site Moncorneil (FR) Situation Moncorneil is a medium-sized landfill near Toulouse. A heating boiler is to be operated with landfill gas and the acquired heat is used for leachate treatment. In view of the complete landfill design the customer demands a container construction with remote monitoring ...

Type     HOFGAS® - Sparky XXL (1000Nm3/h) Commissioning       2004 Site      St.Tite-des-Caps (CA) Situation The landfill site St. Tite-des-Caps is approx. 70 km north east of Quebec. The project was allotted within the framework of the PERRL (Pilot Emission Removals, ...

Type     HOFGAS®- LPM 7000  Commissioning     2003 Site     Landfill Pinto (ES) SituationOne of the Europe’s largest landfill sites is located in the Pinto region, south of Madrid, where a modern waste treatment and energy recovery system is currently being developed. Urbaser S. ...

Type     HOFGAS®- IFM4c/2200/1500/60/180 Commissioning     2004 Site     Novartis (Basel, CH) Situation In order to prevent production failure due to missing redundancy in the flue gas clean up, Novartis required an additional system. During different production processes exhaust air ...

In the food industry many end products are mixtures of solid substances. Examples of such products are dessert mixtures, sugar blends, instant drinks, dried soups and sauces, dietetic foods and spice mixtures. The great variety of constituents, such as milk powder, cream powder, sugar, cocoa, flour, vegetables, fungi, spices, fats (liquid ...