What Are Industrial Odor Scrubbers? Uses And Benefits Of Using Them

You may relate odor scrubbers to some sort of scrubbing or washing technique that is used in the industries. If you have guessed so then you are partially correct. The scrubbers are used in the various industrial plants and water treatment plants for controlling the bad smell or odor. These are some of the gases that can be dangerous for the workers who are working within the industrial plants and pose a risk of breathing problems and suffocation.

Some of the gases such as carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide as you might know are very suffocating and harmful for the human body. But during the various stages of water treatment and in some of the chemical industries these gases may form odors inside the large storage containers and tanks. It is thus essential to scrub them off or neutralize them effectively to ensure minimum gaseous contamination within the industry or even outside.

What are the dangerous gases that can be effectively scrubbed off?

Some gases are worth neutralizing. The list of gases includes some highly poisonous and suffocating gases such as hydrogen sulfide, methyl mercaptan, dimethyl sulfide, carbon disulfide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, n propyl mercaptan.

What is the use of the scrubbers?

So, what is the use of the odor scrubbers then in neutralizing these poisonous gases?

These scrubbers are some of the highly effective tools that help clean up the waste gases produced during the various stages of the manufacturing and water treatment process. The undesirable smell and bad odor are treated effectively with the use of these scrubbers and thus it helps to keep the premises atmosphere clean and hygienic enough to work.  Different types of odor scrubbers are being used in industries and factories these days.  We shall explain about the various types of scrubbers for odor control shortly but first, we shall know of the various process that is there.

Processes for odor control used in the industries and wastewater treatment plants.

There are three basic forms of odor control strategies that are used by the industries, chemical factories, and wastewater treatment plants.

These include-

• Odor scrubbers as we will mention it here.

• Certain biological treatments

• Activated carbon scrubbers that clean off the carbon compounds.

Getting to know about the various types of scrubbers used in the industries.

Know that we have gained some partial knowledge of what scrubbing is what are the strategies being used by the industries and factories for efficient odor control let us have a look at what we promised to you above.

And that is the various types of odor scrubbers.

Carbon scrubber

As the name suggests, carbon scrubber helps clean off the various types of carbon pollutants and gases containing carbon only. There are varieties of carbon pollutants and gases which why only carbon scrubber containing activated carbon is used.

The gases that you can control or neutralize using the carbon scrubbers include carbon disulfide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and some traces of other carbon-polluting gases. The activated carbon filter effectively absorbs all the carbon-polluting gases.

Chemical scrubber

The wastewater also contains some other chemicals that are cleaned off using the chemical scrubber. These are some of the sulfur and nitrogen compounds in gaseous form that are also harmful.

Biological scrubber

The use of microorganisms, including various types of bacteria and fungi, is done on the containers and tanks’ walls. The colony of bacteria is grown and then they can effectively decompose the harmful gases into non-harmful gases.

Conclusion

As you can see that there are three different types of odor scrubbers used in the industries. The exact type of scrubber to be used will depend on the type of industry and the harmful toxin gases to be cleaned.