Our highly effective ECS has been standard equipment on all new plants for many years now. And since the ECS is relatively easy to retrofit, most of our customers with older plants have added this equipment. Moreover, in most cases our ECS unit can even be retrofitted on HCHO plants of other designs.

Here are some of the advantages of a Formox ECS:

• Designed specifically for HCHO / UFC plants and based on our long and unique experience in this field.
  
  
• Eliminates up to 99.8% of the hazardous wastes in the off-gas, thus satisfying the most stringent environmental regulations in the world, e.g. EPA, TA Luft.
  
  
• Some systems solve one environmental problem by creating another. With the Formox ECS, there's no formation of NOx and SOx, as the temperature in the catalyst bed is low and no additional burner is required.
  
  
• Thanks to catalytic incineration, which has a far lower operating temperature than thermal incineration, equipment costs are low.
  
  
• The energy content in the waste gas is utilized for heating the incoming gases to ignition temperature, and no additional eneergy is necessary during normal operation.
  
  
• The additional energy in the waste gases can be used for producing about 100 kg of    steam per ton of 37% HCHO, or an equivalent amount of energy for superheating steam.
  
• Catalytic oxidation takes place at temperatures of about 200-250ºC. This means far lower energy requirements than thermal incineration, which needs temperatures of 800ºC. This approx 600ºC difference allows the use of less costly construction material.
  
  
• With the utilization of steam, the pay-back time is just 3-5 years!