A part of the field of “Gas treatment”, which is expected to grow in importance in the future, due to legislation and regulation to protect the environment, is the reduction of volatile organic components: VOC

Upon international deliberation and agreement, every country has to reach defined targets regarding the VOC reduction and the subjected branches have been identified. As an average, industry has to reduce emissions of VOC with ~30% in the period of 2004 until 2010.

Depending the kind, the concentration and other aspects, volatile organic components can be separated from an exhaust, which is emitting to the free atmosphere.

It is possible to use a direct conversion technique, like incineration, but also to use concentrators after which recovery can take place followed by a post treatment or storage in a compact storage system. It is also possible to destroy or process the concentrate after this concentration process.

The typical risk factors of these plants and the location require special attention regarding design and execution in order to comply with legislation and regulations. This is not limited to process specific requirements, but also to matters regarding external safety, emission monitoring, process integration and interaction with feeding systems, process related reproducibility, controllability regarding permits, climate- and weather influences and so on.

The available know how and experience of PLOUM Engineering, also covers this part of the field of gas treatment.

See also “Thermal gas treatment” on this website.

* All activities as described under "Gas treatment".
* Design of concentration processes and plants.
* Design of thermal processes for gas treatment systems.
* Engineering of the selected process incl. peripheral systems.
* Engineering of process integral solutions.
* Defining and specification of the equipment required.
* Estimate of operational costs for the various methods of treatment.

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