At Catalytic Products International, we have a wide variety of experts on our team, with everyone working together to provide air pollution control solutions to our clients. In our continuing series of blogs, we’ll be speaking to the different members of our team to learn how they bring value to our clients through their expertise.

When it comes to air pollution control, understanding the technology that is available is a complicated endeavor, but this knowledge is necessary for complying with environmental regulations. At Catalytic Products International, we are experts in the systems used to control volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), and we want to help you understand how you can use these oxidizers for VOC control and to meet all your air pollution control needs.

There are 5 basic, distinct types of oxidizers used for VOC control. Let's look at each of them, along with some simple guidelines to point you in direction of the correct oxidizer for your process. 

In recent years, ammonia has increasingly become a regulatory concern. Due to the formation of fine particulate matter that has been linked to ammonia emissions into the atmosphere, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has focused regulatory efforts on controlling these emissions, due to their statistical association with increased incidence of pulmonary disease and reduced lung function, cardiac arrest, and premature death. In addition, ammonia has an adverse effect on rivers, lakes, and aquifers, which has led to restrictions on ammonia emissions in wastewater.

This month, CPI would like to dig deep into the guts of the Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) to share an educated understanding of RTO ceramic heat exchange media. In all RTO applications, the selection of the type of media required to best suit your needs is an important decision when buying an RTO, but it could also be an area for improvement in equipment rebuilds. To get started, let’s review the basic types of RTO ceramic heat exchange media:

At Catalytic Products International, we work with a variety of experts who deal with air pollution control systems at every level. Just as we regularly share our clients’ success stories, we want to look at the work that our team does to meet those clients’ needs.

A thermal oxidizer (also known as a thermal incinerator) is a process unit for air pollution control in many industrial plants that decomposes volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at a high temperature and releases them into the atmosphere.

At Catalytic Products International, we work with our clients every day to help them ensure that they are addressing their air pollution control needs as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. With our years of experience and level of expertise, we can help them address their concerns and find the best solutions to meet their needs. Each client we work with is different, and we want to share their stories to show how CPI can provide the best air pollution control solutions for any industry.

Does downtime for your air pollution control system mean a loss of production for your company? If your air pollution control device fails due to a component part failure, does your EPA permit require the plant to shut down operations until the oxidizer is repaired?

So you’ve reached compliance with your EPA operations permit. Your manufacturing is 100% online. Your team is happy to report that your regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) is fully commissioned and running better than expected. These are typical reactions to a Startup/Commissioning sequence on CPI projects. Now that the system is running and production is back to full speed the real question is this: What type of maintenance is required on the RTO? Over the next few months, we’ll be looking at the critical, yet often overlooked, requirements for keeping a quality CPI RTO online and running smoothly.

At Catalytic Products International, we work with a wide variety of clients to help them meet their air pollution control needs. While each client is different, our experience and expertise ensures that we are able to help them address and resolve the issues they experience. In this series of customer testimonial blogs, we’ll be sharing some of these success stories.