Project Engineer for a project to evaluate biofiltration as a means of reducing styrene and fiberglass emissions from a manufacturing plant that makes thermoset compounds and fiberglass-reinforced thermoset parts. Client was facing a regulatory requirement to reduce these emissions. Evaluated the technical feasibility of biofiltration as an alternative to thermal destruction and prepared a preliminary assessment of biofiltration technologies capable of removing styrene from air.
| Unit operations: Biofiltration |
| Product: Clean air |
| Company: Premix, Inc. |
| Location: Kingsville, Ohio |
I worked on this project when I was a Project Engineer at Middough Inc. during a brief period when I worked out of the Cleveland office. Biodegradation of styrene is very similar to biodegradation of the related compound phenylacetylene, which I had experience with during development of a biotransformation process to make meta-hydroxyphenylacetylene.