With the quality of air around us deteriorating each second, it’s nothing but mandatory for each organization to take concrete steps in working towards resolving the issue. Air pollution is no longer a fancy term but our reality, with people dying every year because of the poor quality of air that they inhale in, the industries must take it upon them to take all necessary precautions and preventive measures to reduce their contribution to it. The emissions from the industry are not only toxic at times but also extremely pungent and fusty.
These odorants are not only foul-smelling but also toxic to the human body, they can cause serious harm to the people working in and around it and also affect their productivity by leaps and bounds. Before investing money mindlessly into buying an odour control system, it is important to recognize the various parameters related to these smell causing substances:
Monitoring the Odour — Before taking any steps, you must recognize the source of this odour. Based on the root cause of the odour, different methods can be employed to deal with them. The best of them would be to find an alternative to the source and thus eliminate it altogether.
Analysis of the Odour — After identifying the source of your odour, it’s important to recognize the chemical nature, dispersion factor, effective concentration and many others of the substances causing the same. Running an analysis of how it can affect the body and the environment around us also comes under this analysis.
Treatment of the Odour — Now that you know enough about the odorant, it’s time to look for technologies available to treat this. With various methods available in the market, it’s important to choose one that serves the purpose efficiently, can be conveniently installed and used in your unit and is within your budget.
While many odour control systems are available in the market, it’s important to recognize which one would cater for your needs the best. Different odour control systems work towards the same goal of purifying the polluted air, but they manage to do so in different ways, based on these ways, the different types of odour control systems available are:
· Biological Systems — The bioscrubbers installed in them utilize the contaminants as their food source, producing theoretically innocuous substances like water, carbon dioxide etc. On average, they can work in these corrosive environments and yet sustain for a life span of about 15–20 years.
· Dry media systems — These systems employ highly efficient adsorbent material that adsorbs the odorants preventing their dispersion in the air. They are nonspecific and can work for a wide range of compounds. For gaseous impurities, dry media systems made up of solid adsorbents like silica, alumina and activated carbon is used in such systems. They can be reused again after proper cleaning and reactivation. There is a wide array of activated carbon odour control solutions present in India.
· Wet Scrubbers — Most widely employed technology, they employ chemicals or wet adsorbent materials that work perfectly for sewage plants majorly. These scrubbers often contain wet adsorbents or oxidizing chemicals that adsorb the pollutants like VOCs and hydrocarbons, later oxidizing them to odourless CO2 and water. They are highly efficient and more versatile in their action.
You can read more about the various options available on the link given below.
