V-tex™
V-tex™ is an outstanding scrubbing and stripping technology, providing users with a highly efficient scrubbing/stripping unit operation, in a fraction of the height of a traditional packed tower. And thanks to the opposed-jet spray nozzle at the heart of the technology, V-tex™ offers flexible, robust operability and unrivalled, maintenance-free availability, across a wide variety of applications.
Background
V-tex™ technology was first employed in the nuclear industry to scrub both gaseous and particulate contamination while minimising the risk of fouling of scrubber internals and spray nozzle blockage. Using the V-tex™ technology reduced the requirement for hazardous maintenance activity.
With the partial privatisation for the UK Nuclear industry in the 1990s this unique patented technology became available for all applications.
Over the last 15 years the technology has been developed and improved and today there are more than 400 V-tex™ scrubbers and strippers in successful operation across a broad range of process industries and leading global companies.
V-tex™ technology is available from ERG and its global network of licensees.
We also have a number of V-tex™ pilot plants, which are available to be installed at customer sites for pilot trials, to prove the V-tex™ technology for customer specific applications.
Fuel Gas Cleaning
Whether the requirement is for cleaning tars from biogases generated from a hot gasification process, or sulphurous compounds or VOCs from biofuels generated from an anerobic digestion process, V-texTM can be the solution.
- Gasification of waste bio-materials (eg, wood chips) produces a hot fuel gas that is cooled and cleaned and then fed into an engine driving a power generator. As the gas is cooled the tars present begin to condense (usually 90-120°C) forming viscous sticky liquids that cause fouling. V-tex™ offers the power plant engineer a self-cleaning, high-efficiency, compact heat-exchanger that will remove all condensibles ahead of his blower or compressor.
- Biofuel gases can be produced from sewage works, landfill sites and by the anaerobic digestion of organic waste materials. These gases are cool so contain fewer condensibles. Instead, they contain other compounds that can foul blowers, compressors or engines including sulphurous compounds (eg. H2S, mercaptans) or VOCs (eg. styrenes, xylenes). Once again, the power plant engineer needs a self-cleaning, high-efficiency, compact reactor that will remove these compounds from the fuel gas. V-tex™ can remove any of these by careful selection of scrubbing-liquor.
