Green Tech Industry Conference 2012 Sydney , 29.10.

2012
Reinhard Schmidt, CEO
econ industries GmbH
VacuDry® - indirect heated vacuum thermal desorption
Overview

 Business activities
 VacuDry®
– Applications
– Technology
– Advantages
– Process
– Working principle
 Examples & References
– France
– Israel
– Germany
– Kuwait
 Rent a VacuDry®
Business activities
since 1993 consultancy and components supply for
industrial waste treatment

2003 Company econ industries established - for

engineering and delivery of turn-key projects
2004 1st waste stabilization plant for haz. waste
2005 1st VacuDry® plant for oily sludge
2008 VacuDry test center in Prague/CZ established
2010 Relocation to new premises in Starnberg
2012 12 VacuDry® plants in 5 countries in operation
engineering contracts: Australia, Sweden, ???
2012 VacuDry®zerofuel; for large oily waste projects
2013 `Rent a VacuDry®´ semi-mobile units

………… Imagine – Zero industrial Waste… !

Business activities

 VacuDry®: indirect heated vacuum thermal desorption

– Thermal separation of mercury, hydrocarbons etc.
 Sterilization
– Hospital waste
 Recycling systems
– Fluorescent lamps recycling
– Industrial resource recovery
 Engineering and consulting services
 Research and development
 Rent a VacuDry® semi-mobile equipment to hire, a
NEW service - available from 3rd Q 2013
Applications for VacuDry®

Mercury containing Refinery wastes, oily sludge Grinding swarf and

wastes and soils mill scale sludge

Hazardous waste and

soil (e.g. pesticides,
organo- lead etc.) and
other industrial
resources and wastes

Hydrocarbon Oil lagoons

contaminated soils

Limitation: contaminants to be separated must have boiling point < 450°C

 VacuDry® process
Liquid output
solid content > 80%

Sieving unit
contaminated soils
Oil or mercury

< 30mm econ VacuDry®

moisture > 50%

Solid output
Oil/HC << 1 %
filtercakes
Sludge,

Hg < 1 ppm
Moisture << 1%

Evaporation of different hydrocarbons, mercury and

other hazardous substances under vacuum
VacuDry® working principle
Clean exhaust
Input material Warm air
Active charcoal filter
Vapour filter

Cooling unit
Condensation unit

Vacuum unit
Thermal oil Vacuum
heating unit dryer
Nitrogen supply

cooling
bunker Water treatment

Warm air
Clean
exhaust

Cooling unit Chiller for VOC

condensation
Solidification mixer

Solids output Water & contaminant condensate output

Advantages of VacuDry®

 min. 4x higher energy efficiency compared to other

desorber types (e.g. rotary kilns)
 Smallest carbon footprint compared to any other
desorber type
 lowest process emissions below 1,000 m³/h due to
vacuum operation; worldwide EPA acceptance
 100% resource recovery of hydrocarbons, mercury,
etc.
 only desorber type with ATEX (explosion protection)
certificate, approved by German TÜV
 > 7,000 operating hours/ year
Reference plant France
Cement silo Evaporation unit 1

Evaporation unit 2

Vapour filter

Solidification unit
Discharge unit

Cooling unit

Soil an building rubble

contaminated with mercury
Throughput capacity: 4 t/h
Referenve plant Israel
Vapour filter

Condensation unit

Evaporation unit

Refinery waste, contaminated soils,

pump-able sludge contaminated
Discharge unit
with crude oil and various
hydrocarbon fractions
Throughput capacity: 1.5 - 2 t/h
Cooling unit
Reference plant Germany

Vapour filter

Evaporation unit 1

Grinding swarf, mill scale

sludge, highly viscous and
semi solid contaminated with
organic substances and
hydrocarbons C10- C40
Evaporation unit 2 Throughput capacity: 6 t/h
Reference plant Kuwait

Condensation unit

Evaporation unit 1

Cooling unit

Tank cleaning and oil lagoon

sludge, drill cuttings and
refinery waste, highly viscous Discharge unit
and pump-able contaminated
Cooling unit
with crude oil Evaporation unit 2
Throughput capacity: 5 t/h
Rent a VacuDry® NEW in 2013
 For soil remediation projects of high
contaminated industrial sites
 Typical contaminations are mercury,
PAH, pesticides, PCB, organic
heavy metals compounds, etc.
 Operation under our supervision
 Project size: > 50,000 tons
 Project duration: 2 – 4 years
 `Rent a VacuDry®`: semi-mobile unit
for easy and fast relocation
 Treatment will be charged for each
treated ton
Planned activities in Australia

 Installation of VacuDry®
for hazardous waste
 Establish „Rent a
VacuDry®“ for soil
remediation projects
 New applications for
VacuDry® in different
markets
 Many more…
Why Australia?
 VacuDry® appears to be an interesting
product for the Australian market;
positive EPA feedback
 Australia is an interesting market; new
`green policy´ (incineration & landfill
unwanted) opens many opportunities;
safe financial ranking
 Financing situation is very interesting at
the moment for Australian clients (Ratio
Dollar – Euro; export promotion
programs by German government)
 Nice country…..
 Thank you for
your attention!

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