Carbonology

Polyurethane (PU) is a highly versatile substance valued for its application in the automotive, home insulation, mattress, textile and shoe-making sectors among many others across Europe. However, PU is derived from compounds that have the potential to harm human health and the environment if...

For communities throughout Europe, municipal organic waste collections have become the norm. Even Christmas trees can be collected, put into anaerobic digesters, and used as the source material for biogas . This biogas contains not only methane, which can then be upgraded into valuable biomethane...

Recovering and recycling plastic is crucial for achieving sustainability goals – but the process creates its own environmental problems in the form of contaminated wastewater . DESOTEC’s MOBICON filters are ideal for purifying wastewater so that it meets legal requirements, enabling recycling...

Growing your business will inevitably involve growing pains. A German supplier to the pharmaceutical sector had to comply with stricter government emission standards. They searched and found a solution to counter their increasing VOC emissions . Two Desotec Aircon V-XL filters ensured that the...

The pursuit of ‘customer delight’ is also an absolute must in the chemical sector. At the request of one of its major customers, a specialist in the storage of chemicals invested in an activated carbon filter to reduce or even completely eliminate nitrotoluene emissions. An international company...

A great deal of household residual waste is produced every day. During the mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) of these fractions, it is of crucial importance to engage in odour control. Aircon V-XL filters from Desotec have repeatedly proven their added value in France too. At the end of 2012,...

Generating green energy is currently an absolute priority to respect the environment and strive towards a sustainable society. Thermosolar systems, of which compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) systems are the most developed, are amongst the technologies that have proven their added value in this...

Proactively anticipating an increase in production capacity: based on this ambition, a producer of carpet tiles from the Netherlands was looking for a solution to comply with the decrease of permitted TOC (total organic carbon) concentrations in air emissions . Thanks to the selected solution, the...

Many former industrial sites still show traces of dumped chemicals and other unusable fractions from the past, when companies often dealt with their waste streams in a less responsible manner. Companies that specialise in remediation often combine forces with Desotec to ensure remediation projects...

In times when the reallocation of brownfield sites is at least an equivalent alternative to using greenfield sites, soil remediation is more crucial than ever. During the removal of any contaminated soil, activated carbon can play an essential role in controlling air pollution and odour emissions...