Emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the food and drink industries of the European community

Elimination of alkanes from off‐gases using biotrickling filters containing two liquid phases

“…18, No. 3) tion, scrubbing and adsorption, and biological methods such as biofiltration, bioscrubbing and bio-trickling filtration [I]. Biofilters are packed beds with biologically active material (e.g.…”

Sources and reactivity of NMHCs and VOCs in the atmosphere: A review

“…Small quantities of VOCs are emitted by several French coal-fired power stations, with benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes, tetrachloroethane, benzaldehyde and phenol being the most abundant compounds [56]. Some data has also been obtained from petroleum fires [57], food and beverage production [58] household products and indoor building materials [59]. Summary of NMHCs source apportionment studies and the concentrations of various hydrocarbons from major U.S. cities are given in Tables 2 and 3 …”

Potential of electric discharge plasma methods in abatement of volatile organic compounds originating from the food industry

“…Alcohol seems to accompany mankind persistently: in NASA experiments, the presence of abundant amounts of alcohols was detected even in balanced life support systems (Stutte and Wheeler, 1997). Alcohol is considered to be one of the major food industry VOCs: commercial activities in the EC in 1993 emitted 151,000 tonnes of ethanol to the atmosphere (Passant et al, 1993). In the same year, in Los Angeles alone, commercial bakeries emitted 2400 tonnes per year of VOCs, principally ethanol (Cox et al, 2001).…”

“…About twenty years ago, rather detailed and alarming estimates were made of the amount of VOCs emitted to the atmosphere by the food processing industry in the European Community (EC) countries (Passant et al,1993). Evaluations made for seven food manufacturing sectors: baking, vegetable oil extraction, solid fat processing, animal rendering, fish meal processing, coffee production and sugar beet processing, and three drink manufacturing sectors: brewing, spirit production and wine making, suggesting that 260,000 tonnes of VOCs per year were emitted in Europe.…”