Environmental

Solutions for challenging environmental processes

In today’s world of:

  • Mounting disposal costs and regulations
  • Concerns about climate change
  • Lack of landfill space
  • Calls to reuse or recycle material

LCI Corporation’s Thin Film Evaporation and Drying technologies are designed to efficiently separate liquids and solids, and are perfect for difficult applications that require mass and volume reduction or contain valuable materials that need to be reused.

Below are unique features and some examples of environmental applications in which thin film technologies have been used:

Thin Film Features

  • Ability to operate under vacuum
    • Evaporation and separation of high boiling point materials
    • Processing of temperature sensitive materials
  • Continuous processing
    • Lowers energy requirements
    • Increases throughput
    • Increases product quality
    • Decreased downtime for cleaning
  • High agitation
    • Rapid surface renewal for high heat transfer
    • Processing foul prone or foaming materials
    • Concentration to low ppm levels
    • Handles highly viscous materials
  • Small Footprint
    • Vertical and Horizontal designs
    • Fit existing buildings
    • Lower Construction Cost
  • Low Maintenance
    • Simple machine with one moving part
    • Decreased maintenance cost and downtime
    • Various designs tailored to specific applications
  • Low energy consumption
    • Decreases carbon footprint
    • Recovery of heat for reuse
    • Reduced exhaust stream lowers treatment requirements

Environmental Applications

  • Zero liquid discharge applications (ZLD)
    • Concentration of salt/brine streams
    • Glycerin recovery from salts
  • Reduction and recovery of materials in waste streams
    • Used oil refining
    • Valuable solvents
    • Monomer recovery
    • Catalyst recovery
  • Concentration of residues for disposal
    • Reactor washes
    • Tar and Paint Residue
    • Catalyst Fines
    • Drilling Residues
    • Radioactive wastewater
    • Waxes
    • Treating wastewater and reduction of liquid wastes
    • Radioactive waste water
    • Acid recovery
  • Drying of municipal and industrial waste sludges
    • Coal slurry
    • Biomass
    • Contaminated soil
    • Industrial process waste
    • Sewage sludge

Environmental Case Studies

Dewater Bio-Based Fuels
Dewater Bio-Based Fuels Tars and Resins
Tars and Resins Used Oil Re-refining
Used Oil Re-refining

Related Products

Thin Film Evaporators

An LCI agitated thin film evaporator (TFE) or wiped film evaporator (WFE or "wiffe") provides short residence time and open, low pressure drop configuration, allowing continuous, reliable processing of many heat sensitive, viscous, or fouling materials without product degradation.

Short Path Evaporators

Short path evaporation is excellent for gently processing heat sensitive, high boiling products. Short path evaporation perfectly complements LCI's thin film evaporation technology program, allowing us even greater capability to provide the right solution for your separation problems.

High Viscosity Processor

LCI’s high viscosity processor is ideal for various polymers, resins, highly viscous food products and many others because it provides higher heat and mass transfer rates for viscous fluids and reliability when compared to other types of evaporation equipment.

Thin Film Dryers

LCI Thin-Film Dryers concentrate slurries, suspensions, and solutions such as catalyst or salt solutions and crude glycerin with indirect heat transfer and mechanical agitation of the thin product film under both vacuum and positive pressure conditions.

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