Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
NanoVapor Fuels Group and McGuffy Energy Services have commercialized NanoVapor Fuels Group’s Inertial Gas Management (IGM) systems for non-destructive recovery of fuels vapors captured during degassing of large storage tanks and marine vessels. This patented “closed loop” design produces “ZERO” (0) atmospheric emissions, and does not add to existing pollution as do most systems in current use. Electrical energy to drive small pumps, an aerial cooler and a fuel vapor blower is the only energy the IGM system uses. (Compare with flare combustors, internal combustion engines and refrigeration systems.)
Nanovapor Fuels Group (NFG) arranged for process tests by an Independent Testing Lab in McGuffy’s shop that demonstrated the NanoVapor IGM system will reduce substantially the time required to degas a storage tank to a concentration level that does not constitute an “emissions point source” per Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Chapter 2009-036-115-EN. Initial deployment will be in the Houston area in early 2011.
NFG developed and patented the system, and McGuffy Energy Services (MES) provided process design, detailed design, fabrication and mechanical testing. NV Field Services, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of McGuffy Energy Services, will be responsible for field operations of the technology.
The IGM system provides storage tank operators a better solution to existing technologies for reducing environmental pollutants and meet increasingly stringent Federal and State regulatory requirements for controlling emissions from storage tanks and marine HC cargo vessels. The NanoVapor IGM systems provide cleaner and healthier air for the Houston area and beyond, in addition to providing new jobs in the environmental ("green") areas of US and world commerce.