TMIP manufactures distillation and adsorption plants to recover solvents from liquid and gaseous streams. Their batch and continuous distillation units can recover solvent mixtures with yields over 95% while their adsorption systems use activated carbon or zeolite to recover solvents and pollutants from air streams at removal rates of 97%. TMIP also offers vapor recovery units to capture vapors during fuel and chemical storage and transport, reducing emissions to as low as 50 mg/m3.
TMIP manufactures distillation and adsorption plants to recover solvents from liquid and gaseous streams. Their batch and continuous distillation units can recover solvent mixtures with yields over 95% while their adsorption systems use activated carbon or zeolite to recover solvents and pollutants from air streams at removal rates of 97%. TMIP also offers vapor recovery units to capture vapors during fuel and chemical storage and transport, reducing emissions to as low as 50 mg/m3.
TMIP manufactures distillation and adsorption plants to recover solvents from liquid and gaseous streams. Their batch and continuous distillation units can recover solvent mixtures with yields over 95% while their adsorption systems use activated carbon or zeolite to recover solvents and pollutants from air streams at removal rates of 97%. TMIP also offers vapor recovery units to capture vapors during fuel and chemical storage and transport, reducing emissions to as low as 50 mg/m3.
TMIP manufactures distillation and adsorption plants to recover solvents from liquid and gaseous streams. Their batch and continuous distillation units can recover solvent mixtures with yields over 95% while their adsorption systems use activated carbon or zeolite to recover solvents and pollutants from air streams at removal rates of 97%. TMIP also offers vapor recovery units to capture vapors during fuel and chemical storage and transport, reducing emissions to as low as 50 mg/m3.
In many pharmaceutical, chemical and textile processes, solvents are
used as solvent mixtures or as water solutions. Solvents can (“must”) be recovered. TMIP manufactures both batch and continuous distillation plants suitable for the above mentioned process. Discontinuous (batch) units are normally used for recovering solvents from complex mixtures, usually present in pharmaceutical industry. Continuous distillers are aimed at chemical industries. TMIP distillation plants include units for operating under pressure or vacuum, double or triple effect, with yields above 95% and controlled by some of the most sophisticated control systems available.
3 Distillation Typical recovered compounds:
4 Distillation The distillation process cannot always be optimized in a theoretical way. In some cases the presence of substances deriving from the proprietary production process that generated the pollutant wastes can hinder and/or limit distillation.
Process Solution Continuous Distillation Batch Distillation Azeotropic Distillation Extractive Distillation Vacuum Distillation High pressure Distillation With Mechanical Compression With Thermocompression Multiple effects
TMIP offers its distillation experience in order to
recover the solvents into the original process or other process.
5 Ethanol –water Process Data • Operation: Continuous Double Effects • Type: Sieve Trays • Capacity: 3000 kg/h • Operating pressure: Atm • Top operating Temperature: 78 °C • Bottom operating Temperature: 100 °C • Recovered Ethanol: >98% • Concentration of Recovered Ethanol: >95% wt. • Material of construction: AISI 304 SS
6 DMF –water Process Data • Operation: Continuous • Type: Sieve Trays • Capacity: up to 9000 kg/h • Material of construction: AISI 316-304 SS • Top operating Temperature: 56°C • Bottom operating Temperature:105 °C • Recovered DMF: >99% • Concentration of Recovered DMF: 99% wt. • Operating pressure: vacuum
7 MC / ACETONE / IPA / TEA-DEA MC -water IPA -water TEA/DEA –water ACETONE - water
Material of AISI 316 SS AISI 316 SS Carbon steel, AISI 316 SS
construction Glass lined Column, Titanium heat exchanger
8 IPA –water Process Data • Operation: Continuous double effects • Type: Sieve Trays • Capacity: 5000 kg/h • IPA inlet concentration: 50% wt • Top operating Temperature: 80°C • Bottom operating Temperature:100 °C • Recovered IPA: >98% • Concentration of Recovered IPA: >87% wt. • Operating pressure: atm • Material of construction: AISI 316 SS / HastelloyC22
9 Ethyl acetate –water Process Data • Operation: Continuous • Type: Sieve Trays • Capacity: 1000 kg/h • EtAcinlet concentration: 50% wt • Top operating Temperature: 70°C • Bottom operating Temperature:100 °C • Concentration of Recovered EtAc: >99% wt. • Operating pressure: atm • Material of construction: AISI 304 SS
10 from gaseous stream: Absorption
11 Absorption: solvent recovery
DMF, NMP is highly soluble in water; TM.I.P.
exploits this characteristic of the soluble water solvent that can be recovered by washing the air in counter current air stream with water in a plates tower. Solvent is collected on the bottom of the tower in solution with water. The solution will be distilled to recover pure solvent.
12 Absorption: pollutant removal Pollutants removal takes place through a “washing” process by means of liquid. Particles with diameter > 1 μm that impact water droplets or wet surface generates the absorption process. A liquid detains small particles by absorption that is the selective passage of one or more gaseous components into liquid phase. The liquid incorporating the pollutants is then recovered on the bottom of the washing tower and treated.
13 from gaseous stream: Adsorption It’s adopted for treating exhaust gas recovering pollutants with the possibility of recycling them in a new process. Adsorbing materials are micro porous substances with a huge surface/height (up to 1700 m2/gr) such as activated carbons, synthetic zeolite, silica gel and activated alumina. TMIP designs & manufactures adsorption plants with pollutant removal levels of 97% and with a particularly fast investment payback.
15 Adsorption Process Solution: • Activated Carbon regeneration by steam • Activated Carbon regeneration by hot nitrogen • with Thermocompression for steam saving • With Distillation Units
16 Hexane recovery Process Data • Operation: Continuous • Type: Steam regeneration • Capacity: 200.000 Nm3/h • Number of adsorbers: 5 • Solvent inlet concentration: 5 g/Nm3 • Recovery percentage: >96% • Steam specific consumption: 3.5 kgsteam/kgsolvent
17 Toluene recovery Process Data • Operation: Continuous • Type: Steam regeneration • Capacity: 200.000 Nm3/h • Number of adsorbers: 5 • Solvent inlet concentration: 5 g/Nm3 • Recovery percentage: >96% • Steam specific consumption: 3.5 kgsteam/kgsolvent
18 Ethyl acetate recovery
Process Data • Operation: Continuous • Type: Steam regeneration and Ethyl acetate water mixer distillation • Capacity: 80.000 Nm3/h • Number of adsorbers: 3 • Solvent inlet concentration: 8 g/Nm3 • Recovery percentage: >96% • Steam specific consumption: 3 kgsteam/kgsolvent
19 Vapour Recovery Unit The main advantages for recovering vapours are:
• Reduce emission of environmentally hazardous
compounds; • Increase safety and reduce health risks linked with the distribution net of gasoline or crude oil; • Recovery of valuable energy resources; • VRU capacity: from 150 to 3500 m3/h of vapours.
Main application of VRU:
Storage terminals; Truck and rail car loading; Marine loading system; Vapour balance systems.
20 Vapour Recovery Unit All emission regulations can be achieved:
TA-Luft: 150 mg/m3
EU Directive: 35 g/m3 US EPA: 5 mg/l loaded
Our VRU may even coupled with a second stage plant, reducing emissions to as low as 50 mg/m3.
Process consists of three main steps:
Adsorption of the VOC on activated carbon bed;
Regeneration of the carbon by means of vacuum; Re-absorption and recovery of VOC by absorbent liquid.
21 Vapour Recovery Unit VRU Safety Safety features of our VRUs include the following: • Use of activated carbon capable to withstand high degrees of mechanical and thermal stresses; • Higher pressure resistant vessels and piping; • Control system monitoring all important operating parameters, with ESD; • Flame arrestors, limit switches , level switches etc.
VRU Control system
• Our plants are equipped with an advanced Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), a bus communication between I/O station and PLC as well as a PC-based, user-friendly Human Machine Interface (HMI). Control system continuously keeps track of process parameters and the operation of the unit; • The system enables operational adjustments, accurate diagnostics and remote supervision.
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