Industries Served

Historically a firm specializing in fired-heater design and process engineering, OnQuest's dedicated team of experts in thermal oxidization technology has experience in many industries where exhaust gases are handled and treated.

For companies facing challenges in adapting industrial processes to comply with evolving air emissions regulations, including plants with furnaces, kilns, or fired-heater applications, our professionals can review and propose specific applications. Our thermal oxidizers can be used in the following sectors, including for odor control and ethanol suppression:

Process Applications

Manufacturing & Heavy Industry
Automotive and aircraft parts manufacturing
Chemical processing, including dye manufacturing and dry cleaning
Food processing, including baking, brewing and distilling
Foundries using resins and/or refractory binders
Iron and steel furnaces, including metals processing
Painting, finishing, and coatings, including applications using solvent vapors
Parts cleaning and degreasing
Semiconductors, including wafer fabrication

Paper, Packaging & Related
Adhesives and bindery products, including binding solvents, resins, rubbers
Flexible packaging
Wood products, including pulp and paper manufacturing, laminates and coatings
Printing, lithography and silk screening

Energy Production & Utilities
Electric energy production
Petroleum refining
Power-plants

Environmental & Treatment Facilities
Cement kilns and incinerators
Wastewater treatment

Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals manufacture, testing, and destruction


Materials
Chemical compounds and/or materials we can treat include:

1,1,1-trichloroethane Acetone, methanol, etc. Acrylate odor Ammonia (incl. odor control) Butanol & butyl acetate Carbon tetrachloride Chlorinated hydrocarbon DMF, MEK, etc. Ethylene & ethyl acetate Formaldehyde Kerosene MEK, methyl cellosolve, etc. Methylene chloride

Mixed solvents (incl. odor control) n-Hexane n-Propanol, n-propyl acetate Organic acids Perchloroethylene Phenol Tetrahydrofuran Thinner Trichloroethylene Trifluorotrichloroethane Vinyl chloride Xylene