Odor Control Products Articles
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OdoServe with High-pressure Misting System - Case Study
This manufacturing facility uses potatoes that are cultivated in the selected regions of India to create 200 MT of potato-based starch per day. This factory is situated in the southwest part of the Punjab, India. High TSS effluent has been generated while producing potato starch. High TSS in the influent primarily results in the deposition of sludge and the development of anaerobic zones in the ...
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V-Bank Transition (VTS) - RL Sutton WWTP, Georgia, USA - Case Study
THE PROBLEM: Located adjacent to the Chattahoochee River, in Cobb County, Georgia, is the RL Sutton Wastewater Reclamation. The facility was operating at capacity and needed to expand. An upgrade was completed a few years later to include a Biosolids Transfer Station that could assist the City of Atlanta and other Municipalities in processing solids waste. The odor from the Biosolids Transfer ...
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Packed Bed System (PBS) - New Belgium Brewery, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA - Case Study
THE PROBLEM: New Belgium Brewery, known most famously for Fat Tire Belgian Ale, began brewing craft beer in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1991. In 2016, a secondary location was opened in Asheville, North Carolina and began receiving complaints from plant workers and neighbors of smells from plant operation. The fermentation process of brewing beer produces extremely odorous airstreams, and as the ...
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V-Bank Transition (VTS) - Robert O. Pickard Environmental Centre, Ottawa, Canada - Case Study
THE PROBLEM: The RobertO. Pickard Environmental Centre (ROPEC) in Ottawa, Canada was undergoing needed upgrades and expansions to its thickening and dewatering building. This building plays a vital role by in water treatment providing sewage receiving and pumping, sludge mixing and thickening, as well as dewatering digested biosolids. These processes release H2S, Ammonia, and other VOC's into ...
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WWTPs, how to prevent and control the generation of odorous gases
There are three commonly used technologies for the prevention and control of odor gases: 1: chemical scrubbing The chemical scrubbing treatment system consists of passing the gas through scrubbing towers where air/water/reagent contact takes place. In chemical scrubbing, an acidic or basic chemical solution is injected into the system from the top, passing through the flow of the gas, and is ...
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Odour control system for leading food company in Ireland
In 2019, as part of a major programme to reduce water consumption, waste production and energy use, a leading food producer, invested in an upgrade to its existing waste water treatment plant, utilising best in class technology and processes. Part of that upgrade was a new odour control plant. Their products, with a famous brand, are exported to international markets throughout Europe, Asia, USA ...
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Catalytic Oxidizer Offers Odor Control for Home Product Manufacturer
Synopsis A manufacturing company producing scented products in their facilities around the United States received numerous complaints regarding the odors emitted from their facilities which they wanted to address proactively. A detailed engineering study determined that various hydrocarbon Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) were the root cause of the emitted odor; although the concentrations were ...
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Castle Rock, Colorado Installations - Case Study
Mix a 37’ x 17’ lift station with an attached 12’ x 17’ lift station. PHI SOLUTION: PHI provided eight bubble forming plates located in the wet well pursuant to the CFD model. The system included one four-valve mixerwith Allen-Bradley PLC controller. The customer supplied a rotary screw compressor. RESULTS: The lift station is grease free and odorswerereduced to the ...
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Automotive Manufacturing - Case Study
Tri-Mer upgrades NOx scrubber for TABC, Toyota’s first North American manufacturing plant. TABC produces components, welded subassemblies, steering columns, and service parts for Toyota’s North American facilities, Tesla Motors, Toyota Motor Sales, and for export. Tri-Mer began by increasing residence time in two existing scrubber columns; one was replaced with a column suited for ...
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Industrial NOx scrubber - Case study
Tri-Mer upgrades NOx scrubber for TABC, Toyota’s first North American manufacturing plant. TABC produces components, welded subassemblies, steering columns, and service parts for Toyota’s North American facilities, Tesla Motors, Toyota Motor Sales, and for export. Tri-Mer began by increasing residence time in two existing scrubber columns; one was replaced with a column suited for ...
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Top 10 Industrial Odor Control Stories for 2017
With 2017 already winding down, now is the ideal time to look back at the biggest industrial odor control stories for the year. From wastewater treatment to solid waste and beyond, eco-friendly odor management has become a priority for organizations looking to be good neighbors and keep their industrial processes fully optimized. Here’s a quick snapshot of the top industrial odor control ...
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Chemical Engineering Magazine: Odor Issues and Solutions for Wastewater Treatment
Today, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of industrial operations that are located within or near small towns and even large cities. When local residents constantly smell these industrial processes – particularly from wastewater treatment — unhappy neighborhoods are generally the result. In addition, many wastewater facilities can no longer produce odors without facing ...
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How To Handle Chemical Spills & Cleanups
FAST-ACT is designed for liquid and vapor chemical releases, but the chemicals it attacks does not need to be limited to what we traditionally think of as a chemical spill. Toxic and noxious chemicals can come from a variety of sources such as waste water, decomposition, household chemicals, and animals. Since FAST-ACT can be applied to liquid spill or vapor release enabling Emergency Responders ...
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Why BioLargo Is Hot and Why Shares May Get Hotter
Investors have waited patiently as BioLargo, Inc. (OTCQB: BLGO) spent millions of dollars and many years developing a world-class water treatment technology that promises to impact the world for good. In much of the world, water equates to life, and the need for clean water has never been so critical as now. Supply challenges are exacerbated by drought, pollution from industry and agriculture, ...
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Wastewater-Solids Dewatering Odor Control - Case Study
Background The Milan Wastewater Treatment Plant, located just south of Moline, Illinois, is a 1.7 MGD (6,434 m3/day) activated sludge facility with an average wastewater flow of 700,000 gpd to 800,000 gpd. This facility dewaters primary sludge using a belt filter press (Figure 1). The press operates an average of three times per month, 8 hours per day at a pump rate of 100 gpm. The sludge is ...
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Odor removal by powdered activated carbon (PAC) in low turbidity drinking water
The potential of powdered activated carbon (PAC) adsorption for odor removal in low turbidity drinking water was investigated. The batch experiments were conducted under various conditions including PAC species, dosage, contact time and dosing point. The effects of pre-chlorination and PAC dosage on turbidity were also studied. Results showed that adsorption was quite vulnerable to initial ...
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Case study - Crystal lake wastewater treatment plant
Challenge: The City of Crystal Lake is located about 45 miles northwest of Chicago with a population of nearly 45,000 people. Like many wastewater treatment plants, urban sprawl and suburban development puts the Crystal Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant near a host of commercial and residential neighbors, including a high school immediately west of the plant. Plant managers were very forward ...
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Case study - Controlling odors at a specialty plastics manufacturer
Challenge A specialty plastics manufacturer in the eastern United States makes a plastic compound that, because of its unique and desirable properties, is widely used in the automotive industry. Complications arose for this manufacturer because, in the production process, mercaptans are driven off and produce a non-hazardous but offensive nuisance odor problem. The manufacturer's neighbors were ...
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James river treatment plant meets odor control commitments with help from GTI covers
The James River Treatment Plant is one of nine major treatment plants operated by the Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD). The James River Treatment Plant is bordered on one side by the James River, and by houses and a park on the other. Although the James River Treatment Plant had installed odor control systems to capture and treat foul air from parts of the plant, its conventional ...
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High efficiency odour control for sludge dryers, sludge pasteurizers and sludge stabilisation using lime and biogas treatment
Abstract This paper summarizes ERG’s experience of supplying odour control for sludge dryers, sludge pasteurizers, sludge lime stabilization and biogas treatment and indicates areas for improvement. Keywords Odour control, chemical scrubbing, carbon filters, waste water, OdorgardTM, sludge dryers, sludge pasteurizers, lime stabilization, biogas, V‐texTM. Introduction Since ...
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