| One piece of process equipment that is used to help | | | | engineering device differs from general scrubbers in |
| prevent environmental contamination is the general | | | | that oxidizer scrubbers are used to remove noxious |
| environmental scrubber. These process engineering | | | | odors from chemical emissions. These devices use |
| devices, known as scrubber systems, are used to | | | | no chemicals and require no maintenance for their |
| control air pollution emitted from industrial exhaust in | | | | lifetime duration. When purchasing this type of |
| the form of gases and particles to reduce the | | | | engineering equipment, one should take into account |
| negative impact of industrial waste on the | | | | the efficiency of the specific oxidizer scrubber model, |
| environment. Scrubbers are a great way to reduce | | | | the temperature range, required airflow, and oxidizer |
| chemical pollution resulting from process engineering | | | | type in use. |
| systems and other industrial processes, and come in | | | | Another variety of this process engineering tool is |
| both wet and dry forms. Wet scrubbers use a liquid | | | | known as the carbon adsorption scrubber. This |
| to clean negative pollutants from gas streams, while | | | | scrubber functions in the same manner as do general |
| dry scrubbers infuse gas streams with a dry reagent | | | | scrubbers except activated carbon is the material |
| to eliminate acids in gas exhausts. The waste | | | | used to eliminate gas and odor from emitted chemical |
| accumulated through the utilization of this process | | | | exhaust substances. When the volume of air steam |
| equipment is safely buried or contained. Scrubbers | | | | is measurably great and the amount of volatile |
| are an environmentally conscious investment that | | | | materials contained in it is measurably low, carbon |
| should be purchased along with other process | | | | adsorption scrubbers may be preferable to other |
| engineering devices in order to reduce toxic waste. | | | | scrubber systems. The carbon injected by the |
| Oxidizer scrubbers are an alternative type of process | | | | scrubber absorbs noxious gases in the air stream, and |
| engineering scrubber system that achieves a similar | | | | used carbon is safely disposed into the ground after |
| purpose as general environmental scrubbers. This | | | | use. |