Characterization and Control of Odours and VOC in the Process Industries (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Characterization and Control of Odours and Voc in the Process Industries 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 10
Preface 16
Opening Session 18
Chapter 1. Inaugural address 20
Chapter 2. Emission reduction programmes for VOC in some OECD countries 24
Chapter 3. The strategy of the European Community to reduce emissions of VOC, mainly in the sector of the industrial use of organic solvents 42
Chapter 4. Economical impact assessment in France of the Draft Directive on the limitation of organic solvent emissions 50
Chapter 5. Possible approaches towards regulating odoriferous emissions 62
Chapter 6. Aspects of the olfactory information 74
Chapter 7. Odours metrology and industrial olfactometry 90
Chapter 8. Study of the VOC emission from an urban sanitary landfill site 104
Session A: Chemical and olfactive characterization + Substitution methods 116
Chapter 9. The application of synergy and inhibition phenomena to odor reduction 118
Chapter 10. TNO experience with olfactometry 132
Chapter 11. Odour annoyance in industrial zones of the river Seine estuary 140
Chapter 12. Study and sanitation of odour nuisance 150
Chapter 13. Physicochemical characterization of odors: a quantified approach to the problem: Example of a domestic refuse composting plant 158
Chapter 14. Pollution prevention research for organic air emissions 166
Chapter 15. How environmental control legislation offers opportunities for alternative technologies 178
Chapter 16. VOC measurements in paint workshops 190
Chapter 17. Radiation curing: combining environmental demands with product quality and cost effectiveness 202
Chapter 18. Comparison concerning VOC emissions between different powder systems during the curing 218
Chapter 19. Waterborne coating systems: the route from low emission to solvent-free 242
Chapter 20. Odour and VOC emissions reduction on coil-coating lines by using waterborne paints 252
Chapter 21. Regeneration of granular activated carbon by inductive heating. Application in the elimination and recycling of air-born solvents 264
Session B: Abatement techniques I 274
Chapter 22. Volatile Organic Compounds Treatment Techniques 276
Chapter 23. Comparative study of odors removal in a wastewater treatment plant by wet scrubbing and oxidation by chlorine or ozone 290
Chapter 24. Odour control in sewage treatment plants. A typical example: the city of Nice 308
Chapter 25. Solvent recovery and waste gas purification with cryogenic processes 322
Chapter 26. The use of activated carbon in the removal of VOC's 334
Chapter 27. The influence of water vapor on the organic compounds adsorption on activated carbon 344
Chapter 28. Separation of solvents with adsorbent resins 352
Chapter 29. Organic compounds adsorption on molecular sieves in gas phase. A comparison with activated carbons 362
Chapter 30. VOC separation on membranes: a review 372
Chapter 31. Industrial applications of membranes to control VOC emissions 388
Chapter 32. The recovery of organic vapors from process air with gas permeation membranes 400
Chapter 33. Environmental tests comparing Kress Indirect Dry Cooling with conventional Coke Oven Pushing and Quenching 410
Session B: Abatement techniques II 422
Chapter 34. Biological waste gas treatment 424
Chapter 35. The "Mist-Foam'' concept: a concept for biological treatment of gaseous organic compounds 432
Chapter 36. Biopurification of odorous gases in urban wastewater treatment plants 444
Chapter 37. Catalytic incineration applied to organic coating lines 458
Chapter 38. Catalytic oxidation processes for odour and VOC control 472
Chapter 39. Development of transition metal oxide-zeolite catalysts to control chlorinated VOC air emissions 482
Chapter 40. Catalytic incineration of VOC's in a cyclic reactor 492
Session Posters and Short Communications 504
Chapter 41. Preparation and Benzene adsorption characteristics of a new carbonaceous adsorbent from elutrilithe 506
Chapter 42. Analysis of VOC being adsorbed on charcoal. "Purge and trap" and Soxhlet extraction: two complementary techniques 520
Chapter 43. Solvent recovery with a combined adsorption membrane hybrid process 528
Chapter 44. Removal of hydrogen sulfide by catalytic oxidation over activated carbon: influence of operating parameters on efficiency of a bench-scale tubular reactor 534
Chapter 45. Catalytic destruction of VOC and odor over platinum group metal catalyst 536
Authors Index 538
Subject Index 540