Organic waste gas is part of the gaseous pollutants, from a wide range of sources, chemical waste gas, fluorine waste gas, gaseous hydrocarbons, malodorous gases, etc. are organic waste gas. Organic waste gas is generally flammable and explosive characteristics, but also toxic and harmful, not only damage to the environment, but also a threat to human health, and treatment is difficult. Organic waste gas from the composition of roughly including formaldehyde, xylene, acetone, butanone, acetic acid, ethyl ester and so on.
At present, domestic and foreign use of gaseous pollution management technology are: dry neutralisation, absorption, adsorption, ion deodorisation, microbial degradation, ozone (composite activated oxygen method), combustion and condensation method and several other methods. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, as shown in the table below.
Comprehensive Comparison Table of Commonly Used Exhaust Gas Treatment Processes
Methods | Principle of operation | Working body | Applicable objects | Remarks |
Absorption | The use of malodorous substances dissolved in water or with other chemical substances oxidation, neutralisation, complexation, salt formation reaction, the generation of odourless molecules | Plant extracts | Amino, mercapto and other odour molecules | Good effect, stable operation, but there is no very good domestic absorption fluid. |
Physical absorption: water | Water-soluble odour components | High water consumption, difficult to treat wastewater, unstable results | ||
Chemical absorption: alkali | Acidic odour components | Deodorisation efficiency is general, there is secondary pollution, when the concentration of malodorous gas is high, multi-stage absorption is required. Disadvantages: huge volume, high investment, and the scope of application is quite limited. |
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Chemical absorption: Acid | Alkaline odour components | |||
Strong oxidising agent | easily oxidises and breaks down malodour components. | |||
Adsorption | Adsorption of odour molecules using porous media |
Physical: Activated Carbon | Hydrocarbons | Simple equipment, deodorant effect is good, suitable for low concentration of malodorous gas treatment, generally used for compound malodorous final purification, when the gas concentration is high, the gas must be pre-treatment such as water washing, acid washing or alkali washing, and dusty gas must be pre-dusting treatment. Disadvantages: high investment, operation and maintenance workload, the adsorption effect is not stable, the performance of the initial good, after the operation of the deodorant efficiency decreased rapidly, and the concentration is small, the intensity of the odor, fishy smell has no obvious effect. |
Chemical: Impregnated activated carbon | H₂S etc. | |||
deodoriser | Alkaline, acidic odour components | |||
Iron oxide-based desulphurisation agent | H₂S | |||
plasma (physics) | The plasma method relies on molecular exciters - using high frequency and high pressure and adopting the principle of molecular resonance. | exciter | Easily decomposed malodour components and malodour gases with unstable molecular structure | It has the advantages of small area, convenient operation and low running cost. Disadvantages: the treatment effect is affected by the concentration, high investment costs, the need for regular replacement of ionic tubes, imported from abroad, expensive. And the possibility of spontaneous combustion |
Incendiary method | Odourous substances are mostly combustible and decompose into harmless inorganic substances such as water and CO2 after combustion. | Direct combustion Catalytic combustion Concentrated combustion |
Combustible odour components | High deodorisation effect, but the ignition temperature of organic waste gas is generally between 100-720 ℃, and it is often necessary to add auxiliary fuel for continuous combustion. Disadvantages: high equipment and operating costs, temperature control is complex, generally used to deal with high concentrations of small volume of organic waste gas, not suitable for odour control. |
condensation | In systems where two phases of gas and liquid coexist, vapour changes to liquid due to condensation and liquid changes to gas due to evaporation. | physiotherapy | organic gas | Higher removal efficiency for individual organic gases. Disadvantages: high equipment and operating costs, complex temperature control, generally used to deal with high concentration of small volume of organic waste gas, not suitable for odour control. |