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The documents and links listed here are resources for understanding combustion and gas cleaning processes. If you have comments about the documents or ideas for other links, please let us know!

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• Banks Engineering - Services, References and Feedback
• Banks Engineering Photos
  • Dan Banks with Pemex refinery personnel at startup of large Claus sulfur plant
  • Chlorinated silane incineration system assembled for testing before shipment
  • Chlorinated waste gas incinerator at pesticide plant
  • Waste gas liquid seal flame arrestor with foam removal sprays
  • Incinerator Exhaust Gas water spray quench
  • Dan Banks with wood treating plant maintenance manager
  • Geothermal offgas incinerator system
  • Dan Banks with Chemical Plant Manager near Leipzig
• Expert Witness
• BIOGRAPHY OF DAN BANKS,
  • Banks Feedback Page
• THERMAL OXIDIZERS –
• COMMON INCINERATION PROBLEMS
  • DEFINITIONS
  • BURNER STABILITY:
  • Combustion Pulsation and Noise
  • WASTE HANDLING
  • CORROSION
  • THERMAL DAMAGE:
  • THERMAL EXPANSION
  • SCRUBBER PROBLEMS:
  • BOILER PROBLEMS:
• Lachute Incinerator Debottleneck.pdf
• HOW TO DISPOSE OF NCG AND TRS
• Links to Other Sites on the Web
• Claus Plant Combustor Survey Results
  • Reaction Furnace Diagram
  • Claus fig 2
  • Acid Gas Burner O2 enhanced
  • Claus survey fig 4
  • Claus Survey fig 5
  • Claus Survey figure 6
• In case you were wondering about
  • About Waste Heat Boilers
    • Safety controls for any fuel gas fired  boiler
    • Boiler Installation and Setup
    • Boiler Hydrostatic Testing -
    • Boiler Refractory Dryout (
    • Boiler Boil-Out Suggestions
    • Boiler Valve Positions
    • Boiler Shutdown,
    • Boiler Water Treatment Considerations
    • Boiler Maintenance
    • Boiler Operating Suggestions
    • Boiler Startup Recommendations
    • Boiler Safety Guidelines
  • About Fans -
    • Fan Engineering Guide ERG100.pdf
    • Fan Sound ED300.pdf
    • Fan Protective Coatings ED400.pdf
    • Fan Troubleshooting ED100.pdf
    • Fan Vibration ED200.pdf
    • Fan Vibration Isolation ED1900.pdf
    • Fan Bearings ED1300.pdf
    • Fan Belt Drives ED1400.pdf
  • About Refractory
    • Refrac Properties - definitions.pdf
    • AP Green on Refractory - a 1953 Paper
    • AP Green Refrac Destructive Forces.pdf
    • Refrac_Temp_vs_Color_Chart.jpg
  • About Flame Arrestors and Detonation Arrestors
  • WASTE CONTAINING
    • NOx from Bound Nitrogen_files/filelist.xml
  • Fact Sheet
• Combustion Safety
• Chlorine Formation in Thermal Oxidizers
• Burning Sulfur Compounds.pdf
• Redesign of Thermal Oxidizers
• Banks Table of Contents Page
• Banks Search Page
• Banks News Page

Last modified: January 12, 2007