Industry Experience

Flameless Oxidation (FTO) – Industry Experience

The “Flameless Oxidation (FTO)” technology has been around for a few decades and has been approved and applied in several industrial fields in Europe and Asia. Over 140 units have been installed and operated in areas such as:

Biogas and Waste Treatment Industry

  • Biogas plants
  • Waste offgas treatments

Steel Industry and Tempering heat treatment

  • Carburizing and tempering furnaces
  • Annealing furnaces
  • Galvanizing furnaces
  • Forging furnaces
  • Tube furnaces

(Petro)Chemical Industry

  • Rotary kilns
  • Industrial offgas treatment

Ceramic Industry

  • Indirect heated furnaces
  • Coal Power Industry
  • Coal gasification plants

WTE-Tech Superflox® reallife experience

The first commercial Superflox® unit has been build and tested in a reallife application as proof of concept and for further development of the technology for various applications. The technology is easy to transport and commission on site and performs well and as expected.

Yunnan Coal Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Yunnan Coal Chemical Group Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as “Jiehua Company”), is a joint investment of Yunnan Coal Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd. and China Yangtze River Three Gorges Corporation. It integrates and reorganizes the former Yunnan Jiehua Group Ltd, former Yunnan Ruiqi Chemical industry Ltd and Yunnan Pioneer Coal Industry Development Ltd. It was established on July 18, 2009. The company has a branch company (Jiehua Chemical Branch) and two subsidiaries (Yunnan Pioneer Coal Industry Development Ltd. and Yunnan Pioneer Chemical industry Ltd.)

According to the actual situation on the site, Jiehua Company decided to take VOCs gas from one existing exhaust gas pipeline, and one high-heat value auxiliary gas source to the experimental device, and choose a safe experimental site.

The experimental unit has no flue gas waste heat recovery part, and the original exhaust gas temperature is 300-400° C. Considered the safety at the temporary experimental site, additional cooling fans was added according to the requirements of the solution company to ensure the exhaust gas temperature is about 150 ° C.

The initial start-up was very successful and smooth. Following unit commissioning after installation the actual testrun at real time conditions ran for more then 2 weeks. Very stable operating performance this both in terms of operating conditions (temperature, flow and pressure) as in terms of emission results (extremely low HC and CO contents in flue gas and NOx levels far below legal requirements.

WTE-Tech Superflox® for ship degassing

In July 2024 the first testruns were completed for the application of inland barge degassing, with great success. One of these test runs was witnessed by Shell in order to accredit the technology for safety and application for degassing of part of the Shell fleet.