Pressure swing adsorption for VOC recovery at gasoline loading terminals

Autor: Herbert A. Johnson, Daniel J. Pezolt, Lanny A. Robbins, Scott J. Collick
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Environmental Progress. 16:16-19
ISSN: 1547-5921
0278-4491
DOI: 10.1002/ep.3300160115
Popis: Volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from gaso-line storage and distribution facilities are coming under increased scrutiny in both the United States and Europe. The recently passed European Community stage 1 directive for gasoline emissions has established an emissions limit of 35 grams total organic compounds (TOC) per cubic meter gasoline loaded (35 g TOC/m 3 ) Similarly, the United States Environmental Protection Agency Standard 40 CFR Part 63 has established an emission limit of 10 mg TOC per liter of gasoline loaded (l0g TOC/m 3 ). The German TA-Luft standard, the most stringent known gasoline emission regulation, has set an emissions limit of 150 mg TOC (excluding methane) per cubic meter of loaded product (0,15 g TOC/m 3 ). The Dow Chemical Company has successfully applied the SORBATHENE Solvent Vapor Recovery Unit technology, a pressure swing adsorption process, to meet these increasingly stringent gasoline and light hydro carbon vapor emission standards. Working through technology licensees (Radian International LLC, Austin, Texas and McTay Engineering, Bromborough, United Kingdom), a field trial demonstrating 99 + % recovery efficiencies has been conducted at a major U.S. gaso-line storage and distribution terminal, and the first commercial SORBATHENE gasoline vapor recovery unit has been installed at a major storage and distribution terminal in Leeds, United Kingdom.
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