Title: Catalytic Oxidizer Catalyst Replacement: Pharmaceutical Company

A New Jersey pharmaceutical company purchased a thermal incinerator to treat the heptane and hexane exhaust from their capsule wash system. The thermal incinerator's "tubular" design was modified with a catalyst bed in order to reduce the system's operational costs. Unfortunately, when operating in the catalytic mode, the oxidizer failed to provide the required 95% destruction efficiency of non-methane hydrocarbons required by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

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