Voc Emissions Posts

Here on the CPI blog, we regularly look at how environmental regulations affect your air pollution control systems. Today, we're taking a close look at methane, which is one of the greenhouse gases addressed in President Obama's Climate Action Plan.

The Climate Action Plan, announced in 2013, is broken down into three different sectors:

• Reducing carbon pollution in the United States
• Preparing the United States for the impacts of climate change
• Leading international efforts to address climate change

The goal of the Climate Action Plan is to follow through on the commitment made by President Obama that by the year 2020, the United States Government would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 17% of those recorded in 2005. To accomplish this task, the Obama Administration has focused on the following 4 areas to cut carbon pollution in America: 

1. Deploying clean energy through reduction of pollution from existing power plants and the creation of renewable energy from wind, solar, and geothermal sources.
2. Establishing new fuel economy standards and development of new transportation technologies.
3. A focus on reducing energy usage in homes, businesses, and factories.
4. Reduction of other greenhouse gas emissions. 

In order to address these tasks, it's important to be able to understand the details behind the causes of these emissions and how they affect the planet's climate. Let's examine methane emissions, which accounted for nearly 10 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2015, starting start with some of the basics: 

What Is Methane?

Why should you be concerned about condensate management in your paint booth, curing oven, exhaust blowers, ductwork, or pollution control device? The primary reasons for this concern is condensates can affect the quality of your product, affect the indoor air quality of your facility, ruin equipment, create safety concerns, and, lastly, affect your bottom line. Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) based condensation can and will catch on fire, both in your production line and at your pollution control device. That’s something will definitely ruin your day. For all these reasons, you need to be concerned -- very concerned.

One question which we frequently receive is about the length of the process of building and installing an oxidizer. There are many factors which influence the oxidizer installation process, including the client’s procurement process and the complexity of the equipment and location of the site. In this series of blogs, we’ve been taking a look at a typical industrial process utilizing a standard thermal oxidizer, catalytic oxidizer, or regenerative thermal oxidizer. We’ve previously discussed the timelines for the client buying process and oxidizer delivery and installation. In this final blog, we’ll look at the timeline for compliance testing.

At CPI, we are frequently asked about the length of time necessary to build and install an oxidizer. The answer to that question is complicated, depending on a variety of factors such as the client’s procurement process and the complexity of the equipment and location of the site. To help build understanding of the decisions that go into this process, we wanted to take a closer look at a typical industrial process utilizing a standard thermal oxidizer, catalytic oxidizer, or regenerative thermal oxidizer. In our first blog on this topic, we looked at the client buying process. Today, we’ll look at the timeline for oxidizer deliver and installation.

If you haven’t had a Title V permit, but one may be in your future, you may wonder what’s in store. In this post, we’ll take a look at the Title V permit program, which has been a feature of environmental regulation in the United States for over twenty years.

One of our most frequently asked questions is, “How long does it take to build an oxidizer?”  The answer depends on the client’s procurement process as well as the complexity of the equipment and location of the site. This series of blogs will focus on a typical industrial process utilizing a standard thermal oxidizer, catalytic oxidizer, or regenerative thermal oxidizer. Since this is a complicated topic, we wanted to separate it out into a few steps. In this first blog, we’ll look at the client buying process.

The worlds largest automotive manufacturer recently installed our QUADRANT SR-Series Thermal Oxidizer to destroy CO and VOC emissions from the exhaust generated by an engine dyno test cell facility. The test facility houses several engine, transmission, and chassis dynamometer’s for gasoline and diesel testing. The manufacturer demanded a system that would provide the highest uptime reliability and highest performance.

Controlling VOC emissions from a landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) purification upgrade system can be achieved with a direct fired thermal oxidizer (DFTO).  The QUADRANT-NRV Series Thermal Oxidation System is designed for use with the low-volume/high-BTU waste gas stream emitted from many landfill renewable natural gas purification processes. As we utilize our Venturi Burner Package to process the waste gas directly through the burner, we are able to reduce the size, and thus cost, of the oxidation system.