Environmentally sustainable companies balance business challenges with operational opportunities and need a roadmap and long-term vision to meet clean-air initiatives. Linde provides innovative emissions control technologies to help you draw your roadmap and achieve both economic and environmental goals. Near zero emissions is economically viable and achievable.

Thermal oxidation is the most flexible, efficient, reliable and in some cases the only means of destroying hazardous and toxic chemical wastes. Linde specialized in liquid and fume incineration of these wastes. Our systems include oxidizers, heat recovery, by-product recovery and other equipment and controls to meet emission requirements.

Our oxidizers meet emissions challenges for the following industries:

• Petrochemicals - plastics and olefins 
• Chemical 
• Pharmaceutical 
• Refining 
• Paper 
• Printing 
• Textile manufacturing and printing 
• Metals
  

Some of our processes can be used to recover acids, energy, metals and salts.

Our flame-based oxidizers can dispose of every kind of organic gaseous and liquid waste generated by the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and metals industries. These systems are based on the high mixing performance generated by a high-swirl burner, effectively combining combustible waste particles and the required air to ensure complete combustion.

Linde developed submerged combustion (SUB-X ^®) technology for waste disposal. This process ensures safe, reliable, rapid quenching of flue gases to minimize dioxin formation when halogenated compounds are present. Typical waste streams treated:

• Halogenated hydrocarbons 
• Organic and inorganic compounds 
• Complex waste streams 
• PCBs 
• Di-isocyantes
  

We use simple up-fired designs if waste constituents are primarily organic compounds. If halogens, sulfur and phosphorous are present, we incorporate scrubbers or other mist removal systems. We add particulate removal devices for waste that contains metals.