1. What is a Thermo Oxidizer?

The RGF Thermo Oxidizer is an evaporator, It is designed to remove the water content of the waste stream to reduce hauling charges. The Thermo Oxidizer performs this task better than traditional evaporators, leaving only a dry ash.

2. Why should I purchase a Thermo Oxidizer over a standard evaporator?

There are many benefits to consider, but the main ones are dry ash instead of slurry, no corrosion, less emissions, consistent efficiency, low maintenance, high return on investment, ability to eliminate waste oil and wastewater.

3. What do you mean by dry ash?

The Thermo Oxidizer atomizes the waste stream, then injects it into a combustion chamber. The water oxidizes from around the solid, leaving a dry ash residue. An added benefit is the thermal destruction of constituents to common elements that reduces the quantity of ash to dispose of.

4. How do you do control corrosion?

The interior is lined with a high density ceramic refractory that provides insulation and a non-corrosive surface. This ceramic is designed to handle 3,000º F.

5. How much wastewater can be evaporated?

Two systems are available that can evaporate up to 150 gallons per hour. The systems can also be doubled to facilitate higher flows and still remain cost effective.

6. What safeguards are utilized on the system?

The system is designed to meet strict NFPA 86 regulations providing limits switches, emergency shut down functions, and PLC controller to monitor critical aspects.

7. Can the Thermo Oxidizer handle solids?

The system has been tested with waste streams consisting of 6% solids (60,000 ppm total solids). Typical streams exhibiting greater than 6% can be pre-filtered/separated utilizing RGF's many separation technologies.

9. What about emissions?

The Thermo Oxidizer exceeds standard evaporators in emissions because of its design. Atomization of the waste stream injected into the combustion chamber thermally destroys most VOC's and many other elements. Standard evaporators emit more VOC's when carried off by the steam.

10. How much will it cost to operate?

Most waste streams can be evaporated for as little as $0.03 per gallon when the waste oil burner is added. A low cost of operation is maintained with the Thermo Oxidizer because solids are not concentrated. Standard evaporators' cost of operation increases as the solids concentration increase.

11. I've heard that standard evaporators cannot handle high chlorides.

This is true. The chlorides will corrode steel, even stainless steel. The RGF Thermo Oxidizer has no steel that comes in contact with the heated wastewater.

14. What are some of the waste streams the Thermo Oxidizer can effectively handle?

* Floor scrubber water

* Parts cleaner water

* Equipment wash water

* Used oil

* Machinery coolant

* Airport ramp runoff

* UF/RO Reject

* Die casting wastewater

* Pharmaceutical manufacturing wastes