SCRUBBER  ABSORBER        NEWSLETTER               

                                                                                                                  January 2005
                                                                                                                         No. 367

Who Should Carry This Effort Forward?

First of all, McIlvaine is offering design drawings of the McIlvaine Mini Scrubber free of charge to anyone who wants to pursue this subject. Beyond this there are a number of organizations that could move this concept along. Thermo Electron is in the business of supplying Method 5 equipment and is a logical entity to offer the components. Clean Air Engineering not only offers Method 5 trains but was the early subcontractor to manufacture the McIlvaine Mini Scrubber.

EPA ETV is a logical entity to use the concept to test the performance on commercial devices. Investors have lost huge amounts of money on scrubber designs which were claimed to be efficient based on particle size analyses. Comparing performance of novel devices to that of a standard miniature scrubber would avoid this problem.

EPA BACT and MACT formulators can use this concept to write much better rules. BACT or MACT can be defined in terms of the performance of the miniature device. Since with the Mini Scrubber the performance increases with pressure drop, BACT or MACT can be defined in terms of a selected pressure drop.

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