Filed under: Case Studies, News | Tags: Acid Scrubbers, carbon adsorber, Caustic Scrubber, Copper Oxide, Design, Extract Systems, Hypochlorite Scrubbing, sewage odour control, Venturi scrubber, VOC Abatement
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
Filed under: Case Studies | Tags: Absorbers, Bio-filter, carbon adsorber, H2S, Odour, Sewage, sewage odour control, VOC Abatement
A.S.K. Piearcey (ASKPL) have assisted Cover manufacturing specialists JSF Hidraulica (JSF) of Madrid in developing their odour control portfolio in Spain.
After some preliminary design work by ASKPL, JSF have built and tested a pilot system (below) consisting of a bio-filter and a Carbon polisher.
JSF have tried a number of different media in the vessels to find an optimum for sewage odour control.
JSF are leaders in the aluminium structures, solid tank covers (below) and floating
tank covers market place. Odour control was a natural progression from their
various tank covering projects and they had received a number of enquiries to
provide odour abatement with their covers. They decided that a pilot trial was
an effective and economic means of developing track
record and confidence in the approach suggested by ourselves.
After extensive pilot trials involving various media they have developed a system
(with design assistance from ASKPL), which
can be used to handle the majority of the sewage odour control applications that
they come across. The bio-filter was entirely constructed from
aluminium and lined with a chemical resistant liner.
Measurements of air flow, H2S inlet and outlet as well as temperature and irrigation were made and data-logged where practical.
The pilot trial, in Fuengirola (south coast of Spain) was so successful that the plant manager is seeking to replace the existing scrubbers with the bio-filter approach.
JSF have since secured 2 large orders involving bio-filters and carbon adsorbers with design assistance from ASKPL.
Filed under: Case Studies | Tags: Absorbers, Carbon, Scrubber, VOC, VOC Abatement
Industrial VOC Abatement
ASK Piearcey designed a range of split bed rect-annular carbon adsorbers for the adsorption of methyl chloride on a coating process.
The equipment was manufactured to our designs by EIS Ltd
ASK Piearcey were asked to investigate the possible release of VOCs from a printing process. Smoke testing and flow measurement from ASK Piearcey demonstrated clearly that there were no fugitive emissions from the process. By investigating the prime VOC sources in the process ASKP Ltd were able to advise the client regarding minor extract philosophy changes to improve stack emissions, which were found to be compliant
VOC Abatement
ASK Piearcey were asked to provide designs for movable carbon adsorbers to assist in the removal of VOCS from combined vent and breather sources, some of which ere already treated via a scrubber. Modifications to the scrubber operation involving re-use of another waste water stream improved the scrubber performance and hence allowed for an improvement in design carbon bed life. The units are due to replace existing static adsorbers and will provide for easier carbon change and reduction in on site, associated hazards.
The project was under taken with Transvac Ltd who built the original scrubber.
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