Challenge: A refinery faced significant challenges with high benzene emissions from its wastewater, exceeding the Benzene Waste Operations NESHAP (BWON) requirements. Crude desalter process water, typically directed to the refinery’s Wastewater Treatment Unit (WWTU), contained high levels of dissolved benzene and phenols. These contaminants were not fully removed during primary treatment, leading to their release […]
Challenge An Envent customer needed to perform maintenance on their distillation unit, SATS unit, and flare. For this project, the customer rented a temporary flare to combust VOCs while their main flare unit was serviced. The customer came to Envent requesting sour gas scrubbing. H2S levels up to 15,000 ppm were to be expected in […]
Challenge The customer needed to clear their hydrotreater of volatile vapors and product in order to allow manned entry for maintenance activities. During this process, there would be limited availability to use the flare or FGRU to purge vapors from the unit. Additionally, there were high concentrations of hydrogen gas and H2S that needed to […]
Challenge A customer removed 50′ of 60″ ducting which contained NOx. The facility is located next to a major highway and bridge in the California Bay Area. Envent provided vapor control on the NOx so it did not produce a toxic orange cloud over the heavily populated area while the customer was removing the ducting. […]
Challenge Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) network were created. Our customer was approved to join and manufacture COVID vaccines and needed to start production quickly. They requested an automated system to control vapors from their process units. Solution Envent’s engineers […]
Challenge A Houston refinery reaches out to Envent to submit a competitive proposal amongst many other thermal oxidizing companies to assist in the cleaning and degassing an API Seperator. This tank is an underground-rectangular tank with an extrernal-floating roof. This tank has taken years of waste-water products from all over the refinery, which creates a […]
Envent provided equipment over a three-year span ranging from small carbon vessels all the way up to our 42 MMBTU/H EMECS42 Thermal Oxidizer along with three other Smaller thermal oxidizers.
Challenge A west coast pipeline company requested Envent to provide vapor control during a pipeline purging process. Normally large vessels with adsorption media were proposed for this kind of job. However, due to the high pressure operation, either expensive high pressure vessels should be used or some devices should be installed to protect the regular […]
Challenge On Christmas Eve 2019 the citizens of a Northern California city woke up to a terrible rotten egg smell. The General Manager of the water treatment facility made a call to Envent around 2:30 p.m. on December 24th, 2019. He said he had a terrible rotten egg smell coming out of one of the […]
Challenge A mid-west facility was under a time and regulatory constraint to reduce H2S emissions coming from a cold feed storage tank. There were many requirements that had to be met to sufficiently perform this job including having a high flow at the system. Envent had to figure out a way to knock out aerosol and oily […]
Challenge A large gulf coast refinery was planning major equipment turnaround on multiple process units. While defining the scope of the work, they estimated that their Flare Header would quickly reach maximum capacity with vent gas from the process unit depressure and decontamination steps. The environmental department required the project to limit all emissions to […]
Challenge A major oil and gas refinery in Louisiana was fast approaching on a major turnaround where the coker flare and adjacent unit would need to be taken down for maintenance. The adjacent unit was home to the flare scrubber where all daily vents from multiple units, such as the Coker, Diesel Hydrotreater, Sulfur Plant, […]
