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
Tars and Resins
Used Oil Re-refining

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.