Sites:
Home > Technical Library > Manufacturing and Process Equipment > Air Quality > Heat Recovery Media: Monolith/Structured vs. Random Packed

Heat Recovery Media: Monolith/Structured vs. Random Packed

From Cycle Therm, LLC

Choosing a heat recovery media for an RTO is not as simple as meets the eye. There are numerous misconceptions to overcome and many variables to consider in choosing a heat recovery media; especially in regard to thermal efficiency and VOC destruction efficiency.

Thermal efficiency and destruction efficiency do not necessarily go hand in hand. Paradoxically, in a typical 2-chamber RTO, higher thermal efficiency often means lower VOC destruction efficiency. Here is the paradox: stretching the cycle time to improve destruction efficiency lowers thermal efficiency, but the stretch also generates larger and larger temperature swings in the heat recovery media as the elongated cycle time depletes the media of stored heat.

Read the Whole Article
Products & Services
Product Announcements
Glenro Inc. - Recuperative Thermal & Catalytic Oxidizers
Glenro designs and manufactures recuperative thermal oxidizers. The systems are typically direct gas fired and incorporate a primary (recuperative) heat exchanger to preheat the incoming solvent laden... (read more)
Branch Environmental Corp. - Thermal and Catalyst Oxidizers for VOC control.
By adding a catalyst to the thermal oxidizer, a lower operating temperature can be used -resulting in considerable energy savings. This is most appropriate where there are low concentrations of... (read more)
Branch Environmental Corp. - Oxidizers built to handle any size volume of gas.
Thermal and Catalyst Oxidizers for VOC control. Branch can provide standard design or custom built oxidation systems for thermal destruction of volatile organic compounds (VOC) and other gases that... (read more)
Catalytic Products International, Inc. - TRITON Series Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers
TRITON-Series Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer's are two-tower systems and all are custom engineered to your exact needs. Each system incorporates specialized ceramic media in the regenerator (heat... (read more)
Glenro Inc. - Glenro Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTO)
Regenex™ Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTO) offer guaranteed VOC destruction of 98 or 99%, depending on whether the design of the unit includes two or three heat exchanger beds. Glenro often... (read more)
Anguil Environmental Systems, Inc. - Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO)
The RTO is an emission destruction device capable of destroying more than 99% of the Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) discharged from various industrial process... (read more)
Anguil Environmental Systems, Inc. - RTO Media Replacement
Considering some enhancements to your Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer? Think about this: Even a small increase in TER% can have a dramatic effect on RTO fuel usage. In some cases, a bump in TER%... (read more)
Catalytic Products International, Inc. - TRITON II Series Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers
TRITON II-Series Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer's improve upon the success of the TRITON Series RTO's by adding a specialized VOC Polishing Chamber. By matching the VOC Polishing Chamber, the TRITON II... (read more)
Topics of Interest

Food/spice manufacturer was seeking to upgrade the efficiency of their existing air pollution control equipment with a regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO). During the selection process, it was...

Cycle Therm designs, manufactures and installs regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTOs) for the destruction of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) and odorous emissions.

A coil coating facility purchased a new a 15,000 SCFM Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) which has a nominal heat transfer efficiency rate of 90% and designed with supplemental fuel injection (SFI)...

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...

A pharmaceutical company had a 5,000 SCFM oxidizer that they were looking to relocate to another facility across the United States. The destruction efficiency rate and heat recovery expectation at the...