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Recycle and Reuse of VOCs from Fugitive Emissions and Small Vent Streams
EPA Contract Number: 68D40075Title: Recycle and Reuse of VOCs from Fugitive Emissions and Small Vent Streams
Investigators: Wijmans, J. (Hans) G.
Small Business: Membrane Technology and Research Inc.
EPA Contact: Richards, April
Phase: II
Project Period: September 1, 1994 through April 1, 1996
Project Amount: $165,000
RFA: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - Phase II (1994) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: SBIR - Air Pollution , Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) , Air Quality and Air Toxics
Description:
The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 regulate emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from equipment leans and from small vent streams. Gasoline vapor emissions from storage tanks at gasoline retail stations and refrigerant emissions from industrial chiller vents are examples of such streams. Very small (1-3 scfm) membrane vapor separation systems will be a simple, energy-efficient method of VOC emission control for these particular applications. Cost advantages could also result because membrane systems recover the VOC as a reusable condensed liquid.Commercial membrane modules, that Membrane Technology and Research, Inc., (MTR) has developed to date show only moderate separation performance at low flow rates. The Phase I program demonstrated dramatic performance improvements with an innovative module design. In the Phase II program, the module design will be optimized and demonstrated in a membrane vapor recovery system operating at a gasoline retail station. The demonstration will be performed in cooperation with MTR's collaborator, a leading supplier of gasoline service station equipment.
Supplemental Keywords:
VOC Emissions, Membrane Modules, Vapor Recovery, Gasoline Vents., Sustainable Industry/Business, RFA, Air, Scientific Discipline, Toxics, Technology for Sustainable Environment, Chemical Engineering, Sustainable Environment, Environmental Chemistry, Engineering, Chemistry, & Physics, tropospheric ozone, VOCs, cleaner production/pollution prevention, air toxics, Environmental Engineering, vapor recovery, gasoline vents, treatment, membrane technology, membrane modules, recycled VOCs, small vent streams, recovery, membrane module, membrane technology , reused VOC emissions, reuse of VOC emissions, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), recycled VOC emissions, reuse VOC emissionsProgress and Final Reports:
SBIR Phase I:
Recycle and Reuse of VOCs from Fugitive Emissions and Small Vent StreamsThe perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.