With
over 250 cumulative years of experience applying Air Abatement equipment to a
variety of applications, Pro-Environmental Inc. has seen the potential pitfalls
when designing these systems. The following is a list of common and costly
mistakes made regarding this equipment:
- Inappropriate materials of construction, resulting in
corrosion and potential replacement of the equipment shell.
- Inaccurate or incomplete characterization of the process stream which
is the basis of design for the abatement equipment. This is especially
important with regards to chemical contamination such as chlorinated or fluorinated
compounds.
- Selecting the wrong heat recovery media type resulting in system
fouling.
- Insufficient heat exchanger efficiency, resulting in increased
operation costs.
- Poor maintenance on upstream particulate removal equipment, or lack
of particulate removal equipment in the process stream, resulting in early
replacement of RTO heat exchanger media.
- Compliance testing done at levels higher than
permitted/required.
- Failure to install Oxidizer resulting in a Consent Decree and or
fines.
- Sizing system heat recovery for the peak conditions rather than for
normal conditions.
- Failing to design adequate equipment capacity and finding out at
start-up your actual air flow is higher than the design flow.
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