Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) Articles
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How to Choose the Right Thermal Oxidizer
Thermal oxidizers play a crucial role in various industrial processes across sectors such as chemical manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, automotive, coatings, and food processing, aiding in the removal of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), and other pollutants from exhaust streams. Selecting the appropriate thermal oxidizer is essential for ensuring compliance with ...
By XPRT
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How Government Regulation Impacts the Plastic Pyrolysis Market?
Government regulation plays a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of the plastic pyrolysis market, influencing its growth, innovation, and sustainability. Through legislative frameworks, policies, and incentives, authorities aim to address environmental concerns, promote technological advancements, and foster a conducive environment for investment and development in this sector. Regulatory ...
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Odor Elimination: Rendering - Case Study
Summary In the Rendering Industry, odor control equipment has been in use since the early 1970’s about the same time Anguil was formed and started serving clients with the best available air pollution control equipment. Typical early applications of air pollution control equipment in rendering consisted of a direct fired afterburner for destruction of the organic emissions (odor, ammonia, ...
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5 Benefits of a Properly Implemented LDAR Program
Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) programs are utilized in refineries and other industrial environments where volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are abundantly present. In principle, LDAR elements are designed to eliminate fugitive emissions by optimizing equipment monitoring, reporting, and maintenance. However, there are many more benefits of a properly implemented LDAR program worth knowing as ...
By LDARtools
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Anguil Catalytic Recuperative Oxidizer (CATOX) destroys Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
The Anguil Catalytic Recuperative Oxidizer destroys Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), and odorous emissions at significantly lower temperatures than thermal oxidation technologies through the use of catalyst. HOW DOES THE CATOX WORK? VOC and HAP laden process gas is either pushed or pulled into a metal heat exchanger inside the oxidizer via a system fan. The ...
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Understanding LDAR Requirements for Refinery Operations
Managing a successful emissions control program at your petroleum facility is no easy task, especially with the endless list of rules and regulations specific to this industry. Read this guide on understanding LDAR requirements for refinery operations to ensure better compliance and overall business performance. ...
By LDARtools
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Wet Scrubbers for Air Pollution Control
A wet scrubber, also known as a "wet scrubber system," is a device used to remove pollutants from industrial and commercial exhaust streams. It is an air pollution control technology that uses a liquid, usually water, to capture and remove pollutants from an airflow. Wet scrubbers are widely used in many industries including power plants, steel mills, chemical plants and refineries. The basic ...
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The Importance of Volatile Organic Compound Leak Detection
Did you know that prioritizing emissions monitoring throughout your facility can benefit your business’s success and productivity? Learn more about the importance of volatile organic compound leak detection and related LDAR ...
By LDARtools
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Using UV-C Light for Personal Airborne Pathogen Protection
Our scientists and engineers have put together a white paper to show UV-C light’s effectiveness in inactivating airborne pathogens. This white paper addresses the issues with current personal airborne pathogen protection (PAPP) methods and describes a new wearable device with UV-C light disinfection for PAPP. The device uses UV-C light at wavelengths around 265 nm, reaching peak efficiency ...
By Respiray OU
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Empowering authorities by monitoring the air quality and odour levels in the Port of Duqm, Oman - Case Study
Our Client Port of Duqm is located in the Al Wusta region of Central Oman and hosts a number of cargo shipments, vessels, marine life and fishery storage and industries. It stretches up to 2.2 Kilometers and harbours more than 1148 vessels being served. Around 70% of Oman’s fishery originates from this area, and the port acts as a medium to store and transport the same to ...
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The Invincible Mortal in the Workplace.
I have a superpower. I can breathe in radiation and spit out roses. Or at least, that's what many of us feel while working in industrial shops all over the country. In the typical industrial workplace there are tens, if not hundreds, of things you are exposed to throughout your work day, week and career. There are ergonomic related routinely made movements that affect the body over time, the ...
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The Working Principles of Continuous Emission Monitoring
Continuous emission monitoring—sometimes abbreviated to CEM—is a requirement established by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure compliance with the appropriate emission standards. It is not mandated for all stack emission monitoring applications, but it is necessary for companies that need to demonstrate continual compliance or to determine exceedances of standards ...
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Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) System Booster
Custom Induced Draft Fan We recently designed and manufactured a custom induced draft fan for a Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) application. The design featured our backward-curved technology with an Arrangement 8 configuration. Extremely robust and very large, the design features a 316L stainless steel airstream with a ferralium wheel, a stuffing box shaft seal, pie split housing, ...
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TVOC Monitoring
Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOC) are a group of compounds containing carbon that have a high vapor pressure present in the air. There are abundant VOC emitted from everyday activities among which some are colourless and some odourless and some are toxic. Therefore, TVOC monitoring is an efficient way to detect exposure to toxic VOCs. This article covers information on total volatile ...
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A Fossil Fuel Free Solution
The Challenge As individuals and corporations continue to push towards smaller carbon footprints, the use of Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIB) has become increasingly prevalent. Specifically for individuals, the utilization of battery packs for all-electric automobiles and solar-powered home battery banks have continued to grow at a rapid rate. The manufacturing of these battery packs generates ...
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How Refiners Use Monitoring Tools to Support Community Health and Safety
Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our people and our communities—the communities where our employees live, work and go to school. Fenceline monitoring is used at our facilities to aid in the early detection of emissions, including benzene. The data helps us immediately correct problems and nearly all refining facilities quickly return to below action levels after ...
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Measuring Opacity and Particulate Matter
Among the most obvious of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), as it is readily visible by eye, is particulate matter (PM) - particles of smoke and dust. Small particlesbelow 2.5 μm in diameter are a special concern as they pose the greatest risk to health. Some PM emissions can be categorised as fugitive and are generally subject to work practice controls. However, the main sources of emissions ...
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Ecotoxicology and Water Quality Standards
Abstract : The establishment of water quality objectives (WQO) for individual chemicals is a complex process fraught with many uncertainties. WQO should (in principle) be derived from no-observed-effect-concentrations (NOEC\'s) determined experimentally on selected test species and even preferably on biological communities in field situations. In practice this is seldom the case. The number of ...
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CPI Installs 60,000 SCFM RTO at Web Coater
Catalytic Products International (CPI) installed a Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) with +99% DRE at a Northeastern USA web coater for the abatement of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs). The 60,000 SCFM Triton II-60.97 Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) will control VOC and HAP emissions from three (3) web coating lines and associated ovens at the ...
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What Are VOCs, and What is VOC Removal?
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are necessary compounds used in household chemicals, industrial manufacturing processes, or are byproducts of exhaust from automobiles, aircraft, and small engines. They can be harmful to the environment and to people, and can cause irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat, cause severe headaches, dizziness, shortness of breath, memory impairment, and even some ...
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