Controlling Volatile Organic Carbon (VOC) Compounds
Wastewater Treatment
The fate of VOC's in wastewater treatment systems has come under close scrutiny by the EPA. In the petroleum, petrochemical, organic chemical and pharmaceutical industries, the presence of VOCs is beings controlled under the auspices of the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPS). Steam or air stripping, carbon adsorption and solvent extraction are all viable candidates for removing VOCs from wastewater before secondary treatment.
Air Pollution Control
Scrubbing vapor streams before atmospheric discharge is the most common methods for controlling VOC emissions. Carbon adsorption is frequently successful as well.
Solvent Reclamation
Recovery of spent solvents is becoming ever more economical. High cost for disposing of spent materials can be combined with the savings realized by avoiding the purchase of fresh solvent to identify enormous economic benefit for recycling spent solvents. Liquid-liquid extraction and activated carbon are often used in solvent recovery systems, but distillation is by far the most popular solvent recovery operation.
Laboratory Data Generation
We operate an engineering laboratory with bench-scale systems to generate basic equilibrium data needed for process design of vapor-liquid, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid mass transfer systems. Most systems that involve waste materials are too complex to expect valid predictions of equilibrium conditions from literature data. ERI can provide rapid and economical laboratory equilibrium data on your actual process or waste fluids. The data we generate can be used directly to define the treatment equipment needed to achieve the results that you require. We have vapor-liquid equilibrium stills, and chemostats to generate data for any of the technologies that we support. We also have pilot-scale, multi-stage equipment for laboratory demonstration of those technologies.
Field Testing Capabilities
ERI can supply equipment and personnel to help you characterize your waste streams with onsite data and sample collection and analysis. We can also provide custom-built pilot plants to demonstrate the potential for VOC control systems at the source.
ERI provides engineering, design and construction of systems to control emission of volatile organic compounds (VOC's). We provide services from laboratory development of basic design data to construction of VOC control systems.
Wastewater Treatment
The fate of VOC's in wastewater treatment systems has come under close scrutiny by the EPA. In the petroleum, petrochemical, organic chemical and pharmaceutical industries, the presence of VOCs is beings controlled under the auspices of the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPS). Steam or air stripping, carbon adsorption and solvent extraction are all viable candidates for removing VOCs from wastewater before secondary treatment.
Air Pollution Control
Scrubbing vapor streams before atmospheric discharge is the most common methods for controlling VOC emissions. Carbon adsorption is frequently successful as well.
Solvent Reclamation
Recovery of spent solvents is becoming ever more economical. High cost for disposing of spent materials can be combined with the savings realized by avoiding the purchase of fresh solvent to identify enormous economic benefit for recycling spent solvents. Liquid-liquid extraction and activated carbon are often used in solvent recovery systems, but distillation is by far the most popular solvent recovery operation.
Laboratory Data Generation
We operate an engineering laboratory with bench-scale systems to generate basic equilibrium data needed for process design of vapor-liquid, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid mass transfer systems. Most systems that involve waste materials are too complex to expect valid predictions of equilibrium conditions from literature data. ERI can provide rapid and economical laboratory equilibrium data on your actual process or waste fluids. The data we generate can be used directly to define the treatment equipment needed to achieve the results that you require. We have vapor-liquid equilibrium stills, and chemostats to generate data for any of the technologies that we support. We also have pilot-scale, multi-stage equipment for laboratory demonstration of those technologies.
Field Testing Capabilities
ERI can supply equipment and personnel to help you characterize your waste streams with onsite data and sample collection and analysis. We can also provide custom-built pilot plants to demonstrate the potential for VOC control systems at the source.
Engineering Resource, Inc., 19 Edgehill Road, Winchester, MA 01890. Tel: 781-938-1074; Fax: 781-938-1075.