The Fiber Glass Reinforcing Plastic Industry in Argentina has undergone a huge development. Unfortunately, only a few facilities work with appropriate abatement pollutant emission technology. That is so due to the lack of regulations and control laws in this country.

   This work describes a case study of the design of equipment to reduce styrene emissions from a filament winding and chop hoop mixed process from a factory that produces Reinforcing Plastic pipes.

C. A. Severi¹, J. Galvez² and S. Vardaro²

1-Student of Master Environmental Engineering. National University of Cuyo, Argentina.E-mail: cralse17@yahoo.com.ar
2-Bioprocesses. Faculty of Engineering. National University of Cuyo.

   Odor control in waste water treatment plants and pumping stations is already a priority in the integration with the neighborhood. Lately the energetic and economic optimization of deodorization has become very important.

   This article describes efficient solutions with very low operating costs for specific elements of plants, using small passive compact units, able to operate without fan, and loaded with selected impregnated activated alumina adsorbents. The results and capacity shown make this solution ideal in sludge silos, thickeners, septic tanks, sludge reservoirs and digesters, storm tanks and others, as opposed to the usual deodorization design criteria by a certain number of hourly renewals.

J.L. Recaj ^* and J.Balfagón

Alphachem S.L., C/ Jerez de los Caballeros 2, 28042 Madrid, SPAIN
* jlr@alphachem.es