VOC Abatement – No Afterburning of Fossil Fuels
We specialize in sustainable catalytic technologies for removing harmful airborne volatile organic compound (VOC) pollution in the air without thermal afterburning of fossil fuels! We have engineered unique proprietary VOC abatement catalytic air scrubber systems. The catalytic air scrubbers are uniquely designed with our patented technology process of growing ceramic honeycomb “cubes” with non-precious mixed oxide catalyst crystals. After years of research and development in Europe, we successfully installed our catalytic abatement air scrubber systems at over one hundred industrial and commercial EU companies, including Zeiss, Rolex, Phillips and Bosch. Of no small consideration, these forward thinking businesses are earth friendly, sustainable and economically competitive with fossil fuel systems.
Our system offers you the following advantages:
- no fossil fuels required;
- no thermal afterburning;
- lightweight and compact design;
- can be retrofitted in existing HVAC systems;
- low maintenance;
- renewable catalyst cubes;
- high reliability and durability;
- significantly lower energy consumption;
- lower reaction temperature.
Mixed Oxide Catalyst Crystals
Most VOC air emissions cleaning systems in North America use fossil fuels natural gas burners that must heat large volumes of exhaust gases to extremely high temperatures (> 1.500⁰ F) necessary for this type of system to perform accurately. At Catalytec, our engineers believe the burning of fossil fuels cannot be the sustainability solution for the removal of VOCs from exhaust gases. In addition, our VOC technology was designed to eliminate the current necessity of high cost precious metal catalysts in commercial and small to medium scale industrial VOC removal applications. No Platinum or other expensive precious metals with their adverse impact on the environment are needed any longer.
Our catalytic conversion systems utilize our proprietary processing of mixed oxide catalyst crystals to achieve efficient chemical reactions with 60% to 80% lower operating temperatures than fossil fuel burning systems. All our VOC systems incorporate highly efficient recuperative heat recovery non-contact air-to-air electric heat exchangers for an unbeatable economic footprint. We use special, proprietary non-precious metal mixed oxide catalyst crystals in our VOC abatement systems. It is the chemical reactions of the mixed oxide catalyst crystals that outperforms existing combustion systems, and thus eliminates the need for expensive platinum and other precious metal catalysts that must be routinely replaced in existing fossil fuel burning VOC systems. Our proprietary honeycomb micro duct structures are pre-coated with mixed oxide catalyst crystals. The catalyst is durable and has a high resistance to heat and typical catalyst poisons.
The acicular structure of the mixed oxide catalyst crystals enlarges the catalyzing surface contact area, enabling a more effective surface exposure to and conversion of contaminant loads to their non-poisonous components. Thus, the catalyst binds with VOCs, converting them to inert elements, and at a substantially lower temperature than standard combustion methods.
Our mixed oxide catalyst crystal are a new technology in the abatement of VOC exhaust gases when used in thermal-catalytic post-combustion of solvent-containing exhaust air. The operating temperature of our catalysts starts at 300 ° C. This significantly reduces your costs. Depending on the application and pollutants, operating temperatures of up to 500 ° C are also possible. The catalytic activity is based on the adsorption and desorption of the harmful gases on the mixed oxide catalyst crystals. The environmentally harmful VOC gases are flamelessly converted into carbon dioxide and water. The structure of our “cubes” combined with catalyst temperature stability results in a long service life before the “cubes” need to be renewed.