Industrial Pollution Prevention

In industry heat and pressure are used to manufacture a wide variety of products. When heat and pressure combine gases are emitted. Some gases are inorganic and some are organic, or VOCs. Those fumes and smoke escape into the air and are responsible for acid rain, smog and air pollution. (Source)

To prevent air pollution industries employ the use of thermal oxidizers, bioscrubbers and solvent recovery systems. These systems help capture harmful emissions and clean them before they are released into the atmosphere.

Thermal Oxidizers

Because VOCs are organic in nature they have a heat value. Essentially, they are a fuel which can be burned. Thermal Oxidizers accomplish the burning of VOCs effectively breaking them down into a water and carbon dioxide which are non-harmful to the atmosphere.
A regenerative thermal oxidizer RTO enables VOCs to self-combust, with some help from natural gas. The resulting emissions are water and CO2, safe for release.

Solvent Recovery

Another method for preventing industrial pollution is through solvent recovery. A solvent recovery system captures VOCs and directs them through a condenser or an adsorbent. If sent through a condenser the solvents are recovered directly from the condenser. In solvent adsorption the VOCs absorb and then are desorbed, and then finally condensed and recovered.

Bioreactors and Bioscrubbers

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, bioreaction is the use of microbes to consume pollutants from contaminated air.

It is a natural process for organic compounds like VOCs to decompose in the presence of microbes. Bioreactors and bioscrubbers harness their degrading abilities to break down various pollution emissions.