The Fiber Glass Reinforcing Plastic Industry in Argentina has undergone a huge development. Unfortunately, only a few facilities work with appropriate abatement pollutant emission technology. That is so due to the lack of regulations and control laws in this country.

   This work describes a case study of the design of equipment to reduce styrene emissions from a filament winding and chop hoop mixed process from a factory that produces Reinforcing Plastic pipes.

C. A. Severi¹, J. Galvez² and S. Vardaro²

1-Student of Master Environmental Engineering. National University of Cuyo, Argentina.E-mail: cralse17@yahoo.com.ar
2-Bioprocesses. Faculty of Engineering. National University of Cuyo.

   The objective of this paper is to describe and evaluate the project of odour impact reduction by means the design, erection and start up of a osmogenic barrier through a spray system of specific products, in waste mechanical and biological treatment plant.

   These products have hydrophobic groups, which have long hydrocarbons chains. This structure allows the formation of big molecular aggregates named micelles. This micelles prevent than malodorous molecules (osmogenic molecules) can be detected by the human sense and despite they are still present in the air, they don’t smell anymore.

J. Vicente Alfanjarín

Director Técnico DEPLAN, S.L. (j.vicente@deplan.es)