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Automotive Manufacturer Chooses the QUADRANT SR Thermal Oxidizer
Description: he worlds largest automotive manufacturer recently installed our QUADRANT SR-Series Thermal Oxidizer for use at destroying CO and VOC emissions from their engine test cell facility. ...
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Automotive Parts Coater Exceeds Local Air Quality Requirements
Description: Today many companies are faced with unique air pollution control problems arising from their coating operations. Not only are vented emissions required to be controlled, but now a more pressing issue ...
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Biomass Generation Facility Replaces Flare
Description: A southeast-based Biomass Generation facility was interested in improving their current process to meet California's increasingly stringent air emission requirements. ...
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Can Coater Chooses the Quadrant SR Thermal Oxidizer
Description: A can manufacturer worked with Catalytic Products International, Inc to design a unique Thermal (recuperative) Oxidizer. ...
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Canadian Biofuel Manufacturer requires Air Pollution Control
Description: Catalytic Products International, Inc was tasked with providing a turnkey solution to Canadian Bio-Fuel production facility. ...
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Catalytic Products International Replaces RTO with a VECTOR Catalytic Oxidizer
Description: A chemical processing facility recently installed a VECTOR Catalytic Oxidizer to replace a competitors Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer. ...
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Cellulosic Biofuel Plant
Description: Cellulosic Biofuels meets National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants ...
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Custom Web Coater Chooses the VECTOR Catalytic Oxidizer
Description: A custom web coating facility recently installed a VECTOR-Series Catalytic Oxidizer to eliminate the VOC emissions exhausted from three different coating lines. ...
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Flexographic Printer chooses the TRITON SERIES Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer
Description: A flexographic printer recently installed a TRITON-Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer from Catalytic Products International, Inc. ...
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Flexographic Printer System Repair
Description: A flexographic printer recently contacted Catalytic Products for help solving a recurring problem. ...
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Heat Recovery System at a Flooring Manufacturer
Description: Flooring Manufacturer Reduces Operating Costs with a Customized Heat Recovery System ...
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Heat/Web Offset Printer Uses TRITON Series Thermal Oxidizer
Description: A heat-set/web offset printer recently installed a TRITON-Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer from Catalytic Products International, Inc. The TRITON system was contracted on a turnkey basis, in which CPI ...
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Landfill Waste Gas Abatement
Description: For nearly 45 years Catalytic Products International has designed and manufactured specialized oxidation systems for use in controlling process-related VOC emissions. The QUADRANT-NRV Series Thermal ...
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Petro-Chemical Processor meets National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
Description: A multitude of chemical and petroleum processing facilities across the country are now faced with having to meet new National Emission Standards for Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing. One ...
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Pharmacuetical Company Chooses the QUADRANT NRV Thermal Oxidizer
Description: Faced with meeting the needs of their Pharma Industry MACT Standards, one Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical Manufacturer called on Catalytic Products International, Inc. ...
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QUADRANT SR Thermal Oxidizer & the Chemical Industry
Description: Chemical processing facilities across the country are facing ever tightening restrictions for volatile organic compound (VOC) and hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions. These emissions can be ...
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QUADRANT SRS Thermal Oxidizer replaces silicone-contaminated system
Description: A Silicone Tape Converter recently replaced a poorly designed thermal oxidizer with a custom engineered thermal oxidizer designed by Catalytic Products International, Inc. ...
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Rule Changes for the Natural Gas Industry
Description: Final changes were published in the Federal Register for oil and natural gas industries on April 17, 2012. This white paper outlines the final changes, what they mean for the industry, and what can be ...
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Silicone Converter Succeeds with Custom Air Pollution Control Equipment
Description: Many industries utilize silicone as an ingredient in their manufactured product. Silicone enhances the attributes of the product or helps to improve production characteristics. Whatever the reason may ...
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Solid Waste Gasification Pollution Abatement
Description: Catalytic Products International has partnered with a Gasification System Designer in the design and supply of a unique thermal oxidizer for use with a closed loop batch pyrolysis gasification system. ...
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The Oxidizer Permit Protection Myth
Description: It is often assumed an air pollution control permit is enough to maintain emission compliance. Unfortunately, that's not the case. EPA is more aggressively pursuing air pollution control systems ...
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The QUADRANT SR Series Thermal Oxidizer and the Textiles Industry
Description: A synthetic leather manufacturer worked with Catalytic Products International, Inc. to design a unique Thermal (recuperative) Oxidizer. ...
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Thermal Oxidizers for Natural Gas Savings
Description: Whether your application calls for quick response to a challenging application, as in the story with this case study, or longer-term design and integration of more traditional air pollution control ...
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Turnkey Installation for a Custom Coater
Description: A custom coating operation recently installed a TRITON-Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer manufactured by Catalytic Products International, Inc. ...
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Pharmaceutical/Personal Care Product Manufacturer Promotes Quality Standards
Description: Pliormoceucal manufacturers demand high quality water with the fewest dissolved solids possible, to promote product consistency A Canadian manufaclixer of pharmoceulical/persond care products was ...
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Case Study: Delumper® Crushes Soda Ash Scale
Description: A leading mineral mining and processing plant recently turned to Franklin Miller for help in solving a long-standing problem. The facility, located in Wyoming , is a major producer of soda ash, the ...
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SIZE REDUCTION PARADOX
Description: Franklin Miller manufactures size reduction processors - crushers, shredders, grinders and screens - for industrial wet or dry, wastewater grinding or screening and solid waste applications. Their ...
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Preventive Maintenance Solutions for Air Pollution Control
Description: Production output and cost control can be difficult to obtain consistently in any manufacturing operation. Learn how one manufacturing plant created a preventive maintenance program to avoid ...
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Our Contribution to Developing Russky Island
Description: Ecologix was tasked with the responsibility to design and deliver a feat of modern infrastructure on top of unturned earth. After evaluating geo-technical studies, local resources, budgets, and ...
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Remote Worksite Wastewater Management
Description: Ecologix announces the successful implementation of its new, pre-fabricated Zeo-Clear wastewater treatment system. Chevron Mining, a subsidiary of Chevron, the second-largest U.S.-based integrated ...
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Greener Drilling through Proper Wastewater Management
Description: The tremendous boom in shale gas production in the U.S. over the past several years has dramatically altered the global energy supply landscape. As the U.S. moves closer to independence from foreign ...
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Recycling Liquid Gold: Treating Wastewater in Remote Locations
Description: The basic economic model of supply and demand is exactly what is taking place in remote drilling locations around the US. For the oil and gas industries, fresh water is a high ticket item and the most ...
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Oxidizer Case Histories in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Description: The pharmaceutical industry faces unique challenges in complying with environmental pollution and emission control regulations. Three pharmaceutical process case studies are examined: fluidized bed ...
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Chlorinated Groundwater Treatment
Description: A Fortune 50 company implemented a remedial project to collect and treat polluted groundwater from a site in Central New York, preventing the mitigation of impacted groundwater from flowing into local ...
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Engine Cell Exhaust: RTO
Description: A Mid-western outboard engine manufacturer bought a three year-old plant for the production of its marine engines. When finished the engines are removed from the assembly line and run for quality ...
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Flexographic Printer: Efficient Emissions
Description: Control of air emissions has become an important issue that flexible packaging converters must consider when changing or upgrading equipment. ...
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Heat Exchanger Retrofit
Description: A manufacturer of insulation films for the electronics industry needed to evaluate the capabilities of four existing oxidizers that treated emissions from its coating lines. The company was concerned ...
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Pemaco Superfund Site Remediation
Description: Pemaco was formerly a chemical facility located in a light industrial and residential area of Maywood, CA, adjacent to the Los Angeles River. No one knows how long hazardous substances had been ...
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Plastic Components Painting
Description: A plastic injection molding company in Wisconsin is known as a world-class leader in the industry for their secondary decorating and assembly capabilities. One of their eleven facilities not only ...
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Rubber Curing Emissions
Description: Anguil was contacted by a rubber curing company to provide an affordable solution to treat their blue haze and low level volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in order to meet regulatory requirements. The ...
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Approaches to Produced Water Treatment Evolving
From: Eco-Tec, Inc.Description: Heavy-oil fields throughout North America are now fully engaged in utilizing produced water as boiler feed for thermal extraction - a more reliable, environmentally friendly approach compared to using ...
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Continuous removal of contaminants from amine solutions
From: Eco-Tec, Inc.Description: Eco-Tec's continuous purification system (AmiPur) is overcoming amine degradation and the formation of corrosion-promoting heat stable amine salts ...
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Still Going Strong -- Very First Amipur Continues to Perform After Nearly 14 Years of Service
From: Eco-Tec, Inc.Description: Still performing and still going strong, the very first Eco-Tec Amine Purification System (AmiPur™) installed in 1998 remains in operation and carries on as a critical part of the refinery's ...
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From landfill to the tomato plant - purified biogas powers greenhouse operation
From: Eco-Tec, Inc.Description: The Board of Waste Management for the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada, known as RGMRM, needed a gas scrubber to remove the highly corrosive levels of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) at its municipal ...
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Case Study: Taskmaster® Grinder Contributes to BioFuel Production
Description: The Meadowbrook Dairy in El Mirage, California is part of a growing alternative energy initiative -the production of energy from renewable sources. In this example, the renewable source is manure ...
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ACID SEPARATION FOR IMPURITY CONTROL AND ACID RECYCLE USING SHORT BED ION EXCHANGE
From: Eco-Tec, Inc.Description: Acid separation using short bed ion exchange is a now well established technology in copper refinery tankhouses. Refinery bleed streams from liberator cells are treated by short bed systems to produce ...
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Food and Beverage Application Brief
Description: A major beverage plant was looking to reduce the impact of it's operations on the environment, while meeting the water treatment challenges at it's facility. ...
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Oil Refinery reduces Energy Consumption with a Culligan Solution
Description: 01/06/2012 Culligan International Company- Commercial & Industrial Division Add Article Oil Refinery reduces Energy Consumption with a Culligan Solution Environmental Equipment ...
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Case Study:Georgia Pacific Improves Energy and Operating Efficiencies With a Culligan Solution
Description: 12/02/2011 Culligan International Company- Commercial & Industrial Division Add Article Case Study:Georgia Pacific Improves Energy and Operating Efficiencies With a Culligan Solution Environmental ...
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Culligan UF-P2, Convoy Of Hope Case Study
Description: 11/09/2011 Culligan International Company- Commercial & Industrial Division Add Article Culligan UF-P2, Convoy Of Hope Case Study Environmental Equipment ...
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Secondary Containment Systems:
From: New Pig CorporationDescription: Secondary containment devices provide a back-up system to prevent the release of a spill in the event that a primary container fails. Custom-made secondary containment products - usually consisting of ...
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Fixed Activated Sludge Treatment (FAST®) Process Technology Overview
Description: Biological treatment systems for small communities and even single-family dwellings have been available in the general water pollution control market for many years. ...
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High Strength Wastewater can be treated...FAST
Description: The Wholesale Meat (Owyhee) Packing Plant in Homedale, Idaho was established in 1989. After 20 years in business they were faced with an unfortunate situation, a failed septic system. ...
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Mud on the Tracks; Dewatering Crews Keep the Alameda Corridor Dry
Description: The mixing vault consisted of a below grade concrete sump into which the groundwater was pumped from the dewatering wells. A metering pump dispensed the neutralizing agent into the effluent based on ...
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Covering Your Tail Gas
Description: The discovery of new shale formations throughout the world and the development of new drilling technologies have increased natural gas production and prompted government agencies to instigate tighter ...
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Reactor Vent Emission Control
Description: Many chemical companies use batch reactors to make their products. These reactors typically have vents which are opened and closed during emptying, filling, mixing, heating or cooling and other steps ...
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BMPs: The Key to Stormwater Permitting
From: New Pig CorporationDescription: In response to growing concerns over polluted waterways, the Clean Water Act (CWA) was established in 1972. This Act provides the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the authority to establish ...
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EPA Issues Guidance Document for Closed Containers
From: New Pig CorporationDescription: To help hazardous waste generators better understand what constitutes a closed container, EPA recently issued a guidance document to help clarify appropriate actions that can be taken to comply with ...
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New Media Makes RTO Natural Gas Usage a Rarity!
Description: Because of advances in RTO ceramic heat recovery media, Anguil is routinely able to provide RTO operators like Tekra with a performance upgrade by either adding to the top of existing media beds or at ...
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On-Site Sodium Hypochlorite Generation System Exceeded Engineering and Environmental Challenge in Las Vegas
Description: The River Mountain Water Treatment Facility (WTF) is one of two plants that provide drinking water to the Las Vegas Valley and is situated a quarter-mile from a residential neighborhood in the city of ...
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Advanced Oxidation Ditch Performance (.pdf)
From: S&N Airoflo, Inc.Description: Oxidation ditches are very popular wastewater treatment processes for small to medium- sized municipalities that have to meet stringent water quality standards. Oxidation ditches provide ...
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Improved Wastewater Treatment at Hess Collection Winery
From: S&N Airoflo, Inc.Description: Winery wastewater treatment at Hess Collection Winery (Napa, CA) features floating horizontal brush aerators, data logging, and computer monitoring and control to simplify required water quality ...
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Odor Control Systems (.pdf)
Description: Odor control is a key concern both in industrial manufacturing operations and municipal water and wastewater treatment. This article describes equipment and applications for a variety of odor control ...
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Aerators Enhance Aerobic Digester Process
From: S&N Airoflo, Inc.Description: In 2003, Eden WWTP staff became aware of floating brush rotor aerators as a potential approach to providing oxygen transfer and mixing in the aerobic digester. AERATORS ENHANCE AEROBIC DIGESTION ...
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Pre-filter Allows for the use of "More Energy Efficient Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO)" (.pdf)
From: Air Clear LLCDescription: Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers can be very susceptible to plugging, therefore, Air-Clear has incorporated a variety of "Pre-Filtering" Technologies to remove contaminants up steam of the RTO Units. ...
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Alcohol Scrubbing in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (.pdf)
From: VerantisDescription: A New York based pharmaceutical manufacturer's pill coating operation required ventilation to keep the isopropanol levels in the dryers from reaching LEL concentrations. Due to the high volatility of ...
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Particulate Scrubbing in Metal Processing (.pdf)
From: VerantisDescription: In operation since the late 1990's, this powder metal processing company located in Pennsylvania has installed four Verantis venturi scrubbers over a five year span. The potentially explosive metal ...
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Standard and Custom Designed Countercurrent Packed Scrubbers (SPT Series) (.pdf)
From: VerantisDescription: Pre-engineered standard models provide low initial cost since design, engineering and drafting times are reduced. Drawings for the standard scrubbers can be forwarded quickly for customer approval and ...
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Wastewater Odor Treatment (.pdf)
From: VerantisDescription: A number of sources in the wastewater treatment process such as the headworks, aeration tanks, settling tanks and dewatering press can produce high-intensity odors from gaseous sulfide emissions. The ...
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The Missing Piece: Utilizing Evaporation Technology to Dewater RO Reject Wastewater (.pdf)
From: ENCON EvaporatorsDescription: This white paper addresses a common problem in the wastewater industry; what to do with reject waters from Reverse Osmosis (RO) systems? Reverse Osmosis reject often has high salinity making it ...
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Disposal of OilSorb
From: Biomin, Inc.Description: This is the cheapest disposal option. In Massachusetts, disposal costs are approximately $40/ton plus freight. The most convenient way to deal with landfill disposal is by simply placing the spent ...
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Chinese Chemical Plant Optimizes Water Treatment by Replacing Double Pass RO with a Single Pass RO and Liqui-Cel® Contactor System (.pdf)
From: Membrana GmbHDescription: Electrodeionization (EDI) is widely used in many industrial water treatment systems throughout the world. In order to maximize the operating stability and life expectancy of an EDI system they were ...
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Oxidizer Operating Cost Reduction Strategies
Description: More and more, companies operating air pollution control equipment today realize that the initial capital cost of an oxidizer system can be rapidly eclipsed by continued operating expenses if careful ...
