Vapor Recovery Technology

R.A. Nichols Engineering Vapor Recovery Systems are designed to be cost efficient and are guaranteed to meet 10mg/l. Our Vapor Recovery Systems consist of a Vapor Recovery Unit, Burner and Vapor Holder. We also manufacture and/or design online and specialty Vapor Burners, Equalizers, and Vapor Holders. We also offer Portable Burner Systems and a line of Burner Booster Systems. RANE engineers each system, combining these components to form systems with minimum capital cost, maintenance, and operating cost, while maximizing vapor recovery efficiency and return on investment. R. A. Nichols Engineering is pleased to provide you with information about our Vapor Recovery Technology.

Vapor Recovery Units; R.A. Nichols Engineering offers Absorption Vapor Recovery Units, which are designed to minimize maintenance and operation costs. We designed these units to operate with a Vapor Holder and they utilize a burner on the outlet to maximize system efficiency. A 300cfm unit with a larger Vapor Holder and Burner can handle thruputs of greater than 1.5M gal/day, while maintaining outlet emissions to less than 0.5% of inlet vapor volume, less than 5 mg/l, and/or 99+% efficiency. In most cases we suggest our Single-Stage VR Unit, which has a typical recovery efficiency of 83% of saturated inlet gasoline vapor, (35% vapor, 1.61 gal/1000gal). In larger terminals with thruputs greater than 1.5M gal/day, and high vapor concentrations, the system can pay for itself in less than two years. In cases where very high thru-put and high vapor concentrations make it cost effective, we utilize our Two-Stage VR Unit. R.A. Nichols Engineering Two-Stage VR Unit has a recovery efficiency of 93% of saturated inlet gasoline vapor. 2-Stage units are more complicated than the 1-Stage unit, but still much simpler than carbon and refrigeration units. The advantages of increased efficiency are often outweighed by added capital cost, simplicity and decreased operating and maintenance costs of the 1-Stage VR Unit.
: Vapor Burners; R.A. Nichols Engineering Vapor Burners are guaranteed to meet 10mg/l efficiency with no assist gas or time at temperature requirements. RANE Burners utilize Maxon line burner technology and NFPA commercial burner safety guidelines to produce cost effective vapor burners for the oil and gas industry. Working with both petroleum and digester gas industry, R.A. Nichols has perfected both natural and forced convection burners from 4 to 120 million btuh. R.A. Nichols Engineering has built both Stationary and Portable burners.
: Portable Combustion System; The RANE Trailer Mounted Portable Combustion System is the largest and most cost efficient portable combustion system in existence and is guaranteed to meet 10mg/l efficiency with no assist gas or time at temperature requirements. Able to process up to 13 arms at 600gpm and as little as 1 arm at 600 gpm, while maintaining stability. In many terminals, the system will be able to even provide its own pilot fuel. This unit can be set up for operation by one man, in approximately 2 hours. The latest portable burner uses Equalizer / variable speed blower technology to produce a 1,100 cfm terminal burner system which tested at 2 mg/l without use of external fuel gas.; Vapor Holder; The R.A. Nichols Engineering Vapor Holder is a cylindrical, self-supporting roof, steel tank with a vapor bladder. The proprietary R.A. Nichols Ring design provides a stable, roughly linear vapor volume versus ring position. Ring bladders have over twice the measurable volume of hemispherical and non-ring designs. The effectiveness of vapor holders has led four major oil distributors to retrofit R.A. Nichols Vapor Holders to their condensation and charcoal systems. The vapor holder cuts operating time for online refrigeration and carbon systems and therefore cuts operating and maintenance costs.
: Equalizer; The Equalizer is typically a horizontal fuel tank that serves as a detonation arrestor and fuel conditioner. This simple system can increase the capacity of both Carbon Systems and Combustion Systems. If the Equalizer is properly located, the tank can be used as a drain tank for the rack and Vapor Recovery System.
: Burner Booster System; The RANE Vapor Burner Booster System utilizes an Equalizer and a Vapor Blower system. The Equalizer insures burnable fuel concentrations and the vapor blower produces enough flow on start-up that the burner will lite and enough flow is maintained to the burner to insure a stable flame. The Equalizer portion of the system stabilizes the vapor concentration going to the burner at a level somewhat below the rack average vapor concentration, which extends the current capacity of a systems burner. Using this technology and a Vapor Holder several standard burners have qualified for fuel gas exemptions in the South Coast AQMD.

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