Centriair news

April 2013

French fries odour results verified at full flow

Previous test results at a french fries frying plant were verified at full flow. This odour installation using a combination of oxidation stages was proven to give the results reached during test work also at full process flow.

March 2013

Centriair Newsletter

Please find our latest newsletter here.

February 2013

Odour removal project Potato frying

A project is initialized with a northern european customer to improve odour removal of the exhaust and at the same time cut energy consumption.

January 2013

Long term test on biogas production

A longer term test is initialized to look at the field performance of different configurations of odour removal equipment. This field installation is intended to run over 6 months initially with regular sampling during the installation time.

December 2012

Waste odour removal installation

An odour removal installation is finalized on a Waste Water treatment plant in Scandinavia. The installation uses oxidation + active carbon and treats an air flow of 7500 m3/h.

November 2012

Coffee odour removal project started

A project is started to implement a full scale installation for high performance odour treatment for coffee roasting. The solution is based on Centriair research work at KTH and field testing on site. This solution has no combustion and thus reduces running costs substantially.

October 2012

New Energy recovery plant operational

A New Energy recovery and Emissions treatment installation is put into operation. The installation treats fumes from three frying lines with a total flow of 22 500 m3.

September 2012

Centriair opens new Gothenburg office

Centriair has opened an office in Gothenburg, at Industrivägen 39 in Sävedalen. Here, Per Kaijser, Simon Carlsen and John Dahl are stationed.

July 2012 Simon Carlsen

We welcome Simon Carlsen

Simon Carlsen has joined Centriair as a design engineer. Simon has a degree in mechanical engineering from Chalmers and has useful knowledge and experience, for instance from the waste water industry.

June 2012

Energy recovery from industrial process

Centriair has started a joint project to recover energy from a polluted industrial exhaust gas stream. The potential energy recovery is above 3 MW. The project starts now with the aim to have a solution installed first half 2013.

May 2012 Roberto Lanza

Roberto Lanza wins the 2012 fishing competition

Roberto Lanzo from KTH wins the 2012 Centriair personnel fishing contest, catching a 7 kg pike in the archipelago of Stockholm. Congratulations Roberto!

April 2012

Emission treatment and Energy recovery order

An order is signed to deliver Emission treatment and Energy Recovery for an industrial frying customer in northern Europe. The treated air flow is 22500 m3/h and the installation is scheduled for autumn 2012.

March 2012

Odour Research

As a part of the research project together with KTH on odours, Hugo Royen, a Master student in chemistry joins the research team. Hugo will run a Master thesis project within the KTH group until the summer.

February 2012

Energy recovery order

To improve the environmental excellence and reduce cost, Centriair will install an energy recovery solution for a large frying customer in Scandinavia. The installation will be done during the spring.

January 2012

Order waste water treatment

Centriair signs contract to deliver two odor treatment installations during 2012 for Waste Water plants in Norway..

December 2011

French fries Order

Centriair receives order for gas treatment for french fries frying. .

November 2011 Henrik Blom

Henrik Blom joins the Centriair team

Henrik Blom joins Centriair working with sales of Odor Removal from Biogas, Waste handling and Water treatment. Henrik Blom has a M. Sc. Degree in Chemical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology. Henrik has a wide experience from air treatment and pollution treatment having worked within Perstorp AB with catalytic gas cleaning as well has aerosol separation within 3nine AB..

October 2011

NEW Waste odor brochure

A brochure giving a summary of our offerings for Waste Odor Treatment is published. Please have a look here.

September 2011

Centriair Newsletter released

Our latest newsletter is released with a quick update of our activities. You can read it here.

August 2011

Waste Odor Treatment order

Centriair has been selected to treat 72 000 m3/h of Waste Treatment Exhaust air in Gothenburg, Sweden. The project starts in August and runs through the autumn.

July 2011

Research project with University of Lund

Following up on our close work together with our customers to reduce the environmental impact as well as costs of production, we have teamed up with the University of Lund to study the chemical reactions behind the creation of FFAs and how these might practically be slowed down.

June 2011

Waste odor removal solutions

Centriair now offers solutions for Waste odor removal. The technology is based on our research work as well as installations and field projects within Waste and Biogas Production. More information will follow shortly.

April 2011

Raised Odor Removal Capacity

New developments in close cooperation with university researchers has led to a substantial raise of the performance of our Odor Removal Solutions. Test work during the spring on different application and locations have shown odor reduction levels of 80-96%(depending on application and power used).

March 2011

Oil treatment

Oil discharge turns out to be a large cost for several of our customers. With an extensive experience within liquid separation and filtration it was a natural step for us to introduce particulate removal from the fryer oil in our portfolio.

February 2011

Energy saving on fryer burner

As part of an energy saving project, a change of the flow sheet on a fryer oil burner realized by Centriair resulted in a >350 kW saving, reducing the annual fuel bill with over 130 k Euro. Installation image 1, Installation image 2.

January 2011

Centriair is selected for Vinnova research program

Centriair is awarded research funding for 2011 and 2012 from the Vinnova program Forska Väx (meaning Research and grow), stage 2. Vinnova is the Swedish Innovation agency. This selection is highly important for Centriair, meaning we can continue our high pace in our research activities. More info here.

December 2010

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

We wish all our customers and partners a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

November 2010

Energy Recovery installation finalized

Centriair finalizes an energy recovery and particle removal installation at the largest crisp frying plant in Scandinavia. The installation treats 12 000 m3/h of fryer exhaust air, it removes particles from the air and extracts energy used for building heating as well as in the process.

October 2010

N.O.S.E. rig website

The website describing our odour removal test rig, the "N.O.S.E." rig is updated. This site describes the possibilities and equipment of the rig. Please feel free to have a look here

September 2010

New Product Brochures

New versions of our Product Brochures covering our solutions for Odour Removal, Particle Separation and Energy Recovery for Industrial Frying are published. Please feel free to have a look (follow links above).

August 2010

Energy recovery order

Centriair gains order for a solution to reduce energy consumption in potato frying in Scandinavia. The installation is to be completed before the end of 2010.

July 2010

Oil mist - Cake production

Centriair installs centrifugal separator to treat oil mist on cake production line.

June 2010

Research cooperation with KTH

KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology and Centriair cooperates for odour sampling and evaluation of different and new oxidative methods. The Organical Chemistry institution of KTH has extensive experience of odour chemistry in different applications.

May 2010

Odour reduction work on Biogas

Centriair does odour reduction project for biogas production. Recent research and development has strengthened the capabilities to oxidize odorous compounds also outside of the industrial food sector.

April 2010

Energy Recovery from Potato Crisp Frying

Centriair receives order from a major potato crisps producer in Scandinavia for air cleaning and energy recovery. The solution will enable the producer to do a substantial yearly saving on oil and gas consumption.

February 2010

Forska Vax Research project finalized

The Forska Vax pre-study research project is finalized.

December 2009

Independent article published

The magazine Food Manufacture publishes an article about the Centriair technology, link here.

October 2009

Poppodums Frying

Delivery of a centrifuge for exhaust treatment for Poppodums frying in the UK.