Air Clean is a well-established company, with 30 years’ experience, specialized in the design and manufacturing of Air Pollutant Treatment Plants. With PBTech, we want to give solution to current limitations of conventional air control technologies when treating difficult waste gas mixtures with variable composition and concentration of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). PBTech, combines the use of two different techniques used to treat pollutant emissions, non-thermal plasma (NTP) and biotrickling, and optimizes their performance through an automated control system, designed to guarantee the best operational conditions according to gas fluctuations.
This end-of-pipe technology is able to treat industrial waste gases with low and variable concentrations of VOC mixtures (0.1-3 mg C/m3), and with a flexible treatment capacity (1,000-106 m3/h). The high removal efficiency, over 99%, and its competitive price and operational costs (3,800 €/year per 1000 m3/h) will allow European industry facing the problem of VOC emissions to comply with applicable legislation and limit values (20 mg/m3 total VOC).
During a Phase2 project, PBTech will be scaled-up, first to a complete prototype of 500 m3/h with validated performances, and second to a semi continuous pilot line of 2000 m3/h, that will be tested and qualified, first with 3 different industrial waste gases on laboratory, and second on-site in a waste water treatment plant (WWTP). PBTech will comply with EU regulation, SED directive emissions, Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive (2014/30/EU) and Machinery directive. We have developed a commercial strategy to increase our presence in two sectors :1) current WWTP market through retrofitting existing biotrickling filters, installed by Air Clean, in composting and dewatering sludge installations with NTP, and 2) Solvents markets, selling PBTech as a “green technology” in substitution of traditional thermal oxidizers. PBTech prepares its market launch in EU by 2019 within Air Clean current markets (Italy, Spain, and Greece) and in other countries where we count on established representatives (France, Ireland and UK). From 2020, we also plan to penetrate in Latvia and Slovenia, and Germany.
PBTech will increase its personnel in 15 employees, and total sales projection (including after sales service) will be worth 11.4M€. PBTech profitability has been quantified in this feasibility Study, with a payback period from 5.4 months to 1 year.
