A.S.K. Piearcey Ltd were engaged by their exclusive waste-water treatment partners Plasticon UK, to carry out the process design and flow balancing of  a flag ship odour control plant situated on the South Coast.

The system handles up to 250,000 m³/hr of odorous air from the main plant and there 2 further satellite systems handling approximately 3000 m³/hr each.

ASKP Ltd provided the process design based on a concept from the main process consultant. The system comprised venturi scrubbing for dryer off-gas solids removal and acid scrubbing for ammonia removal. This was followed by caustic-hypochlorite scrubbing and final carbon adsorber polishing.

Venturi Separator Sump

The venturi system handled up to 19100 m³/hr of dryer off-gas but had 2 modes of operation with automatically varied flow control set point and alarm level adjustment. The venturi throat could be varied by means of an adjustable throat plunger and worked on a constant overflow of final effluent from the separator vessel (above).

Acid Scrubber

The Acid scrubbers handle around 47,000 m³/hr of the high odour (from direct coupled extracts) and are there primarily to remove ammonia and some of the amine present.

Hypo-Caustic Scrubbers

The Hypo-Caustic Scrubbers handle the entire air flow at 250,000 m³/hr and can temporarily handle this with just 2 of the 3 duty scrubbers in operation

Carbon loading unit

The 3 carbon units held around 125 tonnes of copper oxide impregnated carbon to fine tune the odour control performance of the system. Each had to be loaded with a specially built carbon loading system (above).

The air was conveyed from the various field extract points via a vast network of ducting.

Field Process Odour Extract

3m diameter Combined Exhaust to Stack

The ducting was fabricated up to 3m internal diameter to meet the agreed velocity consents.

Carbon adsorber units, also containing copper oxide impregnated carbon were used for odour control in satellite pumping stations.

The system below shows a system with duty standby extract fans and local control panel.

Odour Control Unit at Satellite Pumping Station

The Entire project value was circa £6.5 million. ASKP also assisted with HAZOP, HAZChem and commissioning. We provided Detailed Design, Operational instructions, Control Philosophy, commissioning schedule and training for the entire odour control system.

Fan Pressure Testing by ASKP Ltd