Technical Topics
Customised Solutions for Dust and Fume Extraction
Technical Topics/Publications
Catalysts
Topsoe, as a leading supplier of cutting-edge catalysts and technologies, has an active research and development division. The company`s current focus is on new catalysts and processes for :
- large-scale syngas units including gasifiers
- hydrotreating catalysts and other refining technologies to meet new fuels requirements
- environmental solutions for removing sulphur compounds and NOx from gas streams in industrial plants and power plants and from diesel exhaust
Biogas and Landfills
One of Enviroplus` principal technology suppliers, Tedom, is among the biggest producer of “green electricity” in Europe, as many of its cogeneration units are operated in landfills, making use of landfill gas to produce electricity. Landfill gas contains a high percentage of methane, one of the most aggressive gasses causing greenhouse effect.
The company states:
Compared to the separate production of electricity and heat, the combined production generated in CHP units running on natural gas as well as the electricity production from renewable energy resources, provide a significant emission reduction of CO2. Annually TEDOM, as an operator of CHP units burning natural gas and landfill gas, saves almost 250.000 tons of CO2 compared to the standard electricity production in the Czech Republic. If we were able to sell all these emissions at the price of CO2 allowances (currently about 20 EURO per ton) then we could achieve financial savings of 5 million EUROS. More details about CO2 reductions at each plant is available here.
More information on biogas is also available on the Tedom website.
Publications by members of the Enviroplus team include:
- Cornish LA, Grant M, Williams B, Wilsenach I and McAllister H, An evaluation of steels selected for use within electric arc furnaces, presented at the 4th International Platinum Conference, The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2010
- Grant MR and Gaylard JM, Pollution control and measurement in the cement industry, presented at the 5th South African Institution of Chemical Engineers Meeting, CSIR Pretoria, South Africa, 15 August 1988
- le Roux A and Grant M (1990), Operating experience with high volume air samplers, The Clean Air Journal 8(1), 8-14
- Grant MR (1998), Air quality at Jabavu Clinic, Soweto, paper 13D-5, in Papers of the 11th World Clean Air and Environment Congress, National Association for Clean Air, Parklands, South Africa
- Grant, M (1999), Open coal fires and air pollution at Jabavu clinic, Soweto, in Proceedings of Coal Indaba `99, 5th Coal Science and Technology Conference, The Fossil Fuel Foundation, Johannesburg
- Annegarn HJ, Grant MR, Kneen MS and Scorgie Y (1999), Direct source apportionment of particulate pollution within a township, low smoke coal programme of the Department of Minerals and Energy, Annegarn Environmental Research (Pty) limited
- Vandayar V, Smith VC, Grant M and Pritchard C, Control Engineering in Carbon-in- pulp (CIP) and Carbon-in-leach (CIL) Processes, presented at Minerals Processing 2001, South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Conference, Cape Town, 2-3 August 2001
- Williams BR and Strydom HJF (1989), Rapid data acquisition for coal combustion studies, SAICHe Symposium proceedings
- Williams BR and Glasser D (1989), An automated technique for the instantaneous monitoring of coal combustion, 6th Pittsburgh Coal Conference, USA
- Williams BR and Glasser D (1991), Using residence time theory for the characterisation of coal combustion behaviour, SAICHe Symposium proceedings
- Williams BR and van der Riet M, (December 1996), Repowering a 125 MW unit at Komati Power Station to burn discard coal, SA Mech Eng Journal
- Williams BR (1997), The potential for independent power production using discard coal and other waste fuels, Eskom TLP
- Grant MR and Williams B, Off-gas conditioning for a new 3 MW platinum furnace, paper OR31 presented at MinProc2009, South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Conference, Cape Town, August 6-7, 2009
- Cornish LA, Grant M and Williams, B (2010), High temperature corrosion in selected stainless steels, Microscopy Society of Southern Africa – Proceedings – Vol 40, 2010
In addition, we have undertaken numerous other smaller projects such as HAZOP studies.
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