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Epcon's Article, The Impact of Thermal Oxidizer Sizing on Melt-System Capacity, was one of the most popular features in Industrial Heating Magazine. Below is an overview of the top five high traffic articles from 2018.  To continue a trend we started in 2017, Industrial Heating will highlight a topic on our website and list the most-popular articles under that topic according to page views. We do this for two reasons: first, to showcase some of the outstanding content on www.industrialheating.com ; second, to provide a useful resource for readers who have a particular interest in that topic. As you will see, industrial gases and atmospheres covers a wide range of technologies – from combustion to endothermic generators to thermal oxidizers. Here is a list of the five most-viewed IGA articles on our website in 2018. Combustion Technologies Improve Melting-Furnace Productivity This article from June 2018 was clearly the most popular in this topic on our website last year. Provid...

Afterburners and Thermal oxidizers rely on the process of combustion to oxidize VOC’s to the hydrocarbon units of CO 2 and H 2 O.   High temperatures and residence time, coupled with the proper amount of turbulence, allow this process to occur. Generally, these processes will be able to destroy over 95% of the VOC’s in the process gas.   In order to increase the VOC destruction efficiency, higher temperatures and longer retention times are necessary.   When the destruction efficiencies are this high, the only products of this reaction are water and Carbon Dioxide.   These off-gases can be released to the atmosphere, so there are no removal costs.   Another unique property of these incineration type devices is the ability to destroy both small particulate VOC’s as well as airborne VOC’s.   By combining an incinerator with other methods of VOC removal such as scrubbers , baghouse filters and boilers, 99%+ removal efficiency can be guaranteed. In order ...