SOIL-THERM OXIDIZERS . . .

SOIL-THERM Combustion Technology

  • Soil-Therm Jet-THERM Burner
  • NO COMBUSTION BLOWER
  • Burner Turndown: 75:1
  • Flame  turbulence destroys Well Vapors directly through the flame zone
  • Well Vapors are the primary flame fuel - - supplemental fuel is added only as needed
  • D.E.’s >99.99%
  • Combustion Air Burner
  • COMBUSTION AIR BLOWER REQUIRED!
  • Turndown Ratio:  30:1
  • Combustion air blower provides all flame & heat for destroying VOC’s
  • HUGE combustion chamber
  • Destruction efficiency ~98%

Conventional SVE Oxidizers . . .

Only the Well Vapor Blower is needed for our burner. Contaminated Well Vapors go directly through the SOIL-THERM burner for destruction - - no need for a Combustion Blower! The VOC’s from the Well Vapors burn in the turbulent flame zone as the primary fuel source. In summary, you’re burning only the supplemental fuel you have to, nothing more. The most energy efficient design on the market!  SIMPLE,  POWERFUL and VERY ENERGY EFFICIENT !

TWO BLOWERS ?? - - cha-ching! ... your fuel bill just got nasty! The Combustion Air blower has to heat both its ambient air and the Well Vapors process stream to 1400F. Yee-ouch!  While the Combustion Air flame is burning, the Well Vapors are injected into the flame for destruction. As if thats not bad enough, most of the manufacturers are using ‘fixed combustion air burners’. A FUEL WASTING PROCESS HERE !

SOIL-THERM develops advanced burner technologies for environmental and emissions control applications. High speed flight combustion technologies have been adapted to create the most energy efficient flame process for destruction of VOC’s, chlorinateds, benzene, MTBE, and other difficult to destroy compounds.  SOIL-THERM oxidizers are also far more energy efficient than oxidizers using conventional “combustion air” burners by others.

Lets compare SOIL-THERM’s technology with Conventional Oxidizers (all the others the market)...

Energy Efficient!

Huge Gas Bill !

No Combustion Air Blower!

THE BEST TECHNOLOGY - - SOIL-THERM. SOIL-THERM offers a whole new exciting combustion technology for remediation cleanup applications. Like many of our customers, we’ve never been satisfied with Conventional Oxidizers’ outrageous energy costs and feeble cleanup performance.  If you want to clean a site faster and more economically, SOIL-THERM is your best choice.  If you require high destruction efficiencies or high processing rates, SOIL-THERM is the only one to use. We’ve expanded our product-line and system performance capabilities to clean the toughest site applications that a thermal system would ever see - - all with an excellent record of success!  

TECHNICAL SUPPORT ... When you call SOIL-THERM - - feel free to get all the technical burner & oxidizer performance information you need to properly evaluate the performance of your system. Openly discuss your combustion design requirements, thermodynamics, energy values of influent vapors, flame mixing, permitting, dilution air wihout combustion air blower, performance requirements and energy calcs with water content, high CO2, low Oxygen, guaranteed fuel usage, and other aspects that will affect the processing and destruction of VOC’s for your chlorinated, SVE, or DPE site application. Because these systems are  a large investment - - we’ll make sure you’re getting exactly what you need & that your operating costs are kept within budget. 

SOIL-THERM is the company with proven burner and combustion experience  for your environmental projects!  Our award winning technologies and experience is unmatched!

Operating Mode

SOIL-THERM

Conventional Oxidizers

Catalytic (700F)

   680 btuh/cfm   (Nat Gas $3.92/cfm-mo) (Propane: $5.64/cfm-mo)

  1530 btuh/cfm  (Nat. Gas$8.81/cfm-mo) (Propane: $12.69/cfm-mo)

Thermal  (1400F)

1460 btuh/cfm (Nat. Gas: $8.41/cfm-mo)   (Propane: $12.11/cfm-mo)

   3570 btuh/cfm (Nat. Gas: $20.56/cfm-mo)    (Propane: $29.61/cfm-mo)

This really happened . . .At a site in Southern California, a SOIL-THERM 2002 oxidizer system was compared side-by-side with a “Brand X” thermal oxidizer system with Combustion Air Burner. In thermal operation at 1400F, the SOIL-THERM system required 5.0 cfm (300,000 btuh) natural gas, and the “Conventional Oxidizer” system required 11.9 cfm (714,000 btuh) to process 200 cfm SVE vapors with approximately 1500 ppmv VOC’s. According to the alarmed operator, when he called the manufacturer’s service dept. about the high fuel usage he was told: “That sounds about right -  - if you want to reduce fuel costs just cut down on your Well Vapor Flow”. Hmmm... that can’t be right, can it ?

If thats your site, you’re wasting about $2,385 in gas every month! If you operate that system for one year, you’ll spend $29,000 more than you would’ve with a SOIL-THERM system .. And at that rate - - you could buy a whole new SOIL-THERM system in just a few more months!...

After researching the operating costs between SOIL-THERM oxidizers and five different brands of Conventional Oxidizers, we found the following fuel consumption relationships that showed huge differences between the two oxidizer technologies. In summary, SOIL-THERM was always lower in operating costs - - regardless of brand and whether the oxidizer system was horizontally or vertically mounted.  The results are shown in the table below:

Review Data

   Environmental Business Journal       “Industry’s Best in 2003 & 2004”    

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“We currently own three SOIL-THERM mobile dual phase thermal systems, custom built to our specs. These systems provide impressive processing rates, high destruction efficiencies, and are extremely reliable. We’ve used the others, SOIL-THERM is the best and uses at least 50% less fuel!”.  Tom Waller, PE, Principal Engr, Holguin Fahan & Assoc.

“SOIL-THERM designed and built a Mobile-THERM system that was impressive to look at and operated using much less fuel than all others we’ve used. The finest equipment at a great price.” Steve Diamond, EnviroTRAC

“It has been my field experience that  SOIL-THERM oxidizer systems are  as much as 50% more energy efficient than the other conventional oxidizers.  Our SOIL-THERM mobile dual phase oxidizer system has been extremely reliable and versatile. Its custom design achieves excellent operation over a wide range of flows and concentrations”. Dan Louks, Vice President, GSA Engineering

“I operate over 30 SVE thermal systems from all manufacturers.  Based on my field experience, I have found that SOIL-THERM systems are much more energy efficient and outperform the others by far ! Thery’re also highly reliable and have excellent uptime”. Darren Azarian, Principal, Integral Engineering Services, Inc.

 

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   Environmental Business Journal       “Industry’s Best in 2003 & 2004”    

“2003 TECHNOLOGY MERIT AWARD... for developing and deploying thermal and catalytic systems with the new Jet-THERM combustion process technology... to achieve virtually 100% destruction of VOC’s from soil-vapor-extractions, multi-phase-extraction, and chlorinate emissions control applications .” Environmental Business Journal, January, 2004

“2004 TECHNOLOGY MERIT AWARD... for implementing advances in its Jet-THERM combustion burner process to destroy methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) contaminants recovered in groundwater treated by soil-vapor extraction and multi-phase extracdtion.” Environmental Business Journal, March, 2005