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VOC reprocessing machine
Recycle VOCs and contribute to environmental protection !*
The valve unscrewing post is the one which discharges the most VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) to the atmosphere:
Example: 36t/year, that is to say more than 50% of a filling plant total emissions**
Thanks to this machine, you will:
- Comply with the European legislation in force*
- Reprocess VOCs
- Recycle gas
- No longer have to tilt the cylinders up side down to empty them, and thus avoid to collect LPG residues (tar, iron filings, sand...)
- No longer need to burn or catalyse gases
Characteristics :
- Automatic functioning
- Production rate: 50 cyl/h
- Performance: 16t/year (200g x 50cyl/h x 8h x 200 days)
- Any kind of cylinders
- Any types of valves
- Machine designed to work in hazardous area: certified ATEX zone
- Independent machine with air compressor and heating system
Process :
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1. Cylinder weighing before emptying 2. Manual fitting of the insert on the valve 3. Automatic admission of the cylinder 4. Bell going down and vacuuming (valve isolation) 5. Vacuuming (creation of a 90% - void) 6. Injection of a gaseous phase into the bell to balance the pressure between the cylinder and the machine 7. Valve unscrewing |
8. Vacuuming until one bar of pressure. At the same time, compensation of the liquid phase expansion by caloric intake on the bottom of the cylinder 9. Ejection of the cylinder, which then contents only 40 g of gas (figures measured for a 26L Butane cylinder) 10. The vacuumed gas is pushed to the intermediate storage tank with a possible return to the sphere 11. Manual unfitting of the insert 12. Cylinder weight check |
This machine has been developed in partnership with Cobogal (France) for the Ambès-based filling plant
*according to the 2003_87_CE, 96_61_CE et 2001_80_CE European Directives
**Source: Internet website of the French Ministry for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Land Settlement
