Thermal Oxidizers

Glenro's Regenex RTOs come in either two or three bed configurations. The two bed units offer a reasonably priced, modular design that achieves greater than 95% VOC destruction with high heat recovery. They are housed in a single compact box minimizing the overall footprint.

An RTO consists of two or more heat exchangers connected by a common combustion chamber. The heat exchangers consist of beds filled with media that will allow air to pass while serving as a mass to store heat.

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For certain applications, Glenro recommends the use of a catalytic oxidizer to achieve the required VOC abatement. The use of a catalyst causes the oxidation reaction to occur many times faster than thermal conversion and at much lower temperatures. This means that the catalytic oxidizer will be smaller in size and will generally have a lower initial cost and operating cost as compared to a recuperative thermal oxidizer. Glenro engineers these systems for maximum efficiency and lowers operating costs by integrating primary and secondary heat recovery technologies.

For applications where VOC concentration levels in the process exhaust is relatively high and secondary heat recovery is viable, Glenro usually recommends recuperative thermal fume oxidizers. This oxidizer design is also a good choice if process air flows and solvents vary. Because they are designed for minimum fuel consumption with exhaust heat recuperation, direct fired thermal oxidizers have the potential to provide outstanding destruction efficiencies (typically 95% to 98%) at a reasonable operating cost and provide substantial energy for use with secondary heat recovery technologies to service other processes and applications elsewhere in the facility.

These are examples of green technologies that can increase product margins by reducing manufacturing costs while protecting the environment.

Even before the 1990 Clean Air Act, Glenro has been supporting a clean environment. Glenro has developed and integrated green technologies into its equipment designs to help reduce global warming and total green house gas emissions. When a thermal oxidizer is required to prevent the emission of hydrocarbon solvent vapors (VOCs) into the atmosphere, we also look for ways to recover as much energy as possible and redirect it to the manufacturing process. By coupling our oxidizers to our process drying or curing systems, CO₂ emissions are significantly reduced.

Oxidizers are used to destroy volatile organic compounds (VOC) in process gases.