M E D I A C H A N G E R E S T O R E S P L A N T C A P A C I T Y & I M P R O V E S F L O W MEDIA REPLACEMENT A recycling facility that processes waste bakery products experienced significant reductions in air flow capacity, negatively impacting production rates. The bottle neck was a two-chamber RTO (Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer) system that took forever to start, suffered significant chamber temperature imbalances and contained ineffective ceramic media. Factors that caused the media beds to clog were particulate load in the airstream, unfit ceramic media selection, and the original installation arrangement of media. The original media used in the RTO was a combination of Lantec’s MLM structured media and random ceramic saddles. A layer of random saddles was placed at the botto

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