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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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Case study - Heat web offset printing - MN
Location: Minnesota Equipment: Catalytic recuperative oxidizer 1,000 scfm capacity (expandable to 3,000 scfm; 1981 vintage) Installed: Spring 2001 Problem: Odor Complaints from Neighbors Project Details: Many printers have such low levels of emissions that they are considered minor sources per the EPA, and are not required to control these emissions. However, heat set web offset printing ...
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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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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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Landfill is forced to pay heavy penalties when masking agent is unsuccessful at reducing odors
The Problem - A Pennsylvania landfill using masking agents for years discovered how unsuccessful "covering" odors can be. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection documented over 200 odor complaints from neighbors of the landfill in just one year. As a result and at significant expense, the site was required to install an enhanced landfill gas collection system with temporary ...
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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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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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BioLargo`s - natural clean- it`s not your grandmother`s iodine
People of a certain age may remember how their grandmother would use iodine on their cuts and scrapes when they were children. Not only did it leave a stain, but it also stung on the wound. If only the positives of Iodine were available without the negatives. Good news – now they are! BioLargo Inc. offers a number of products that take the sting and stain out of iodine use. ...
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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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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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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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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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