Cimarron has been providing custom designed Thermal Oxidizer Systems since 1993. Each unit is custom engineered to effectively destroy specific waste and achieve required environmental regulations. Our team of experienced process, mechanical, controls and instrumentation engineers provide comprehensive support for each project, from detail engineering to assistance during start-up.
Our engineering team are experts in biogas collection and control and are available to support our customers when they need assistance. Beyond initial sizing of the equipment, we can model new conditions with process simulation software, calculate hydraulics, and perform other studies, to support field operations.
Cimarron utilizes in-house equipment fabrication at several different manufacturing shops. By eliminating the reliance on third party vendors, Cimarron can ensure the quality of the equipment and minimize lead times. Our strategically located manufacturing locations provide flexibility by allowing us to distribute work across multiple shops and ensure proximity to our customers with reduced freight costs.
Cimarron’s combustion engineering team collectively has centuries of experience creating, troubleshooting, iterating, and improving on combustion processes yielding the most robust and leading combustion products available today. When you need to rely on your combustion system, rely on Cimarron.
We have a dedicated in-house service team with extensive vapor combustion commissioning, operating, and troubleshooting experience across the US. Rest assured that Cimarron will be available to support the product throughout its life.
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Emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), and other harmful gases pose significant risks to human health and the environment. Increasing stringent environmental regulations require high destruction efficiency (DRE) of those components. Thermal Oxidizers offer a proven and reliable solution for effectively destroying these emissions achieving required DRE. Cimarron offering includes Direct Fired Thermal Oxidizers FIRECATTM and Recuperative Thermal Oxidizers R-FIRECATTM that can achieve up to 99.9999% DRE.
In a direct fired Thermal Oxidizer, contaminated gas or liquid is mixed with combustion air and heated to a high temperature by burning auxiliary fuel. This high-temperature environment facilities an oxidation process that converts harmful components into harmless components such as carbon dioxide and water.
Recuperative Thermal Oxidizers incorporate heat exchanger(s) to enhance energy efficiency. A heat exchanger preheats the incoming air or waste or both by recuperating heat from the existing clean flue gas. Commonly employed heat exchangers include plate and tubular designs. This heat recovery significantly reduces auxiliary fuel usage.
In scenarios where the waste stream is exothermic, preheating the waste or air is not advantageous. In such cases, the heat contained within the flue gas can be utilized by integrating a waste heat boiler or a hot oil heater within the system to generate steam or preheat oil.
Standard Features for all Thermal Oxidation Systems
More information on TO types:
Endothermic: Waste gas containing primary inert such as nitrogen, carbon dioxide, air with small amount of organic material, or waste liquid.
Exothermic: High heating value hydrocarbon waste gases.
These are the most common Thermal Oxidizer units supplied by Cimarron. Most of the systems are vertical units with side-fired or up-fired burner. When heat recovery is used a horizontal arrangement is often selected.
Typical Applications:
• Refineries
• Chemical plants
• Gaseous/Liquid waste from process plants
• Dehydration units
Key Features:
• Destruction Removal Efficiency (DRE)- Up to 99.9999%
• Low NOx- ≤ 0.06 lb/MMBtu
• NFPA 86 Compliant Burner Management system
During combustion of Halogenated waste acid gas such as HCl, HF, and HBr is formed. These gases must be removed before the flue gas can be emitted to the atmosphere. This is achieved by utilizing absorber or scrubber, after the flue gas is properly cooled. Cimarron offers complete Thermal Oxidizer Systems that include auxiliary equipment such as quench system, and absorber or scrubber to treat waste that contains chlorinated components.
Typical Applications:
• Chemical Plants Pharmaceutical Plants
Key Features:
• Destruction Removal Efficiency (DRE)- Up to 99.9999%
• NFPA 86 Compliant Burner Management system
• Halogenated scrubber to Minimize halogen emissions
The Tail gas Thermal Oxidizer serves as the final stage in sulfur recovery unit and represents the most common application for treating waste streams containing sulfur components, with hydrogen sulfide (H2S) being a primary component. Cimarron offers both forced draft and natural draft units. Operating temperature depends on the required H2S and CO levels in the flue gas.
Typical Applications:
• Natural Gas Processing Plants
• Sulfur recovery units
Key Features:
• Destruction Removal Efficiency (DRE)- Up to 99.9999%
• Low NOx- ≥ 0.06 lb/MMBtu
• NFPA 86 Compliant Burner Management system
• SO2 scrubber to Minimize SO2 emissions
The combustion of waste gas containing nitrogen bearing compounds results in the formation of chemical NOx. Cimarron provides integrated systems including Thermal Oxidizer with SCR/SNCR reactor to effectively reduce NOx emissions and ensure compliance with environmental regulations.
Typical Applications:
• Chemical/Manufacturing Plants
• Process Plants
Key Features:
• Destruction Removal Efficiency (DRE)- Up to 99.9999%
• NFPA 86 Compliant Burner Management system
Ultra Low NOx Thermal Oxidizers with Certified Ultra Low Emission burner (CEB)
When conventional Thermal Oxidizer burner technology is not able to achieve ultra-low NOx level <0.06 lb/MMBtu, Cimarron can offer a proprietary CEB burner to be used with a Thermal Oxidizer system. NOx levels as low as 0.018 lb/MMBtu are achievable with this technology.
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