Breathe Easy With Environmental Controls

When designing an oxidizer system’s thermal rate efficiency, it is important to rate the maximum efficiency of the primary heat exchanger to the solvent load thought to be encountered almost 80 percent of the time. This allows the oxidizer to use very little natural gas during normal operations. It is also important to design a system capable of working through the higher solvent loading conditions. A hot-gas bypass is a standard recommendation on all thermal oxidizers. The hot-gas bypass becomes the safety valve for the system and allows higher LELs to be safely and effectively managed, without any need for operator involvement.