Brewery and steam vent odor control system
AssigneeSimple Solutions Distributing, LLC
InventorsAndrew McGibbon, Louis John Pagano
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Abstract
The invention disclosed herein relates to an odor control system including features to allow a media scrubber to function to treat a humid, or saturated, or superheated exhaust stream. In some embodiments, the system disclosed herein can capture a humid, or saturated, or superheated exhaust stream, such as from a kettle vent, and dilute the exhaust with fresh air to lower the temperature of the combined air flow below its dew point. Water is drained from the system as it condenses in the system. The combined air flow can be further diluted and/or treated according to embodiments disclosed herein such that the exhaust stream, after having excess water removed, will have a relative humidity (RH) value enabling it to be run through a media scrubber.
Claims20
An odor control system comprising:
- an air admittance tee operable to receive a superheated exhaust stream and a fresh air flow to create a combined outflow that is below the dew point;
- at least one water drain configured to drain water from the system as it condenses in the system;
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- a treatment zone operable to treat the combined outflow, wherein the treatment zone includes a media scrubber having an adsorbent media disposed therein.
An odor control system comprising:
- an air admittance tee operable to receive an exhaust flow;
- a damper in the air admittance tee permitting an air flow to enter the air admittance tee and mix with the exhaust flow as the exhaust flow moves through the tee to create a combined outflow;
- a first pipe connecting an outlet of the air admittance tee with a demister;
- a first drain in the first pipe;
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- a second pipe connecting an outlet of the demister with a treatment zone, wherein
- the treatment zone comprises a media scrubber having an adsorbent material.
An odor control system comprising:
- an air admittance tee operable to receive an exhaust flow;
- a vent in the air admittance tee, the vent permitting escape of the exhaust flow therethrough without the exhaust flow moving through the odor control system;
- a first valve in the vent, the valve operable to open and close the vent;
- a first damper in the air admittance tee permitting a first external air flow to enter the air admittance tee and mix with the exhaust flow as the exhaust flow moves through the tee to create a combined outflow;
- a first pipe connecting an outlet of the air admittance tee with a demister;
- a first drain in the first pipe;
- an air admittance lateral, communicating with the first pipe, operable to permit a second external air flow to move into the first pipe to mix with the combined outflow before entering the demister;
- a second damper in the air admittance lateral operable to regulate a volume of the external air flow;
- a media scrubber having an adsorbent material;
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- a pressure blower, wherein the pressure blower moves an outflow through the media scrubber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.