Project details
- Client: Exide Technologies (Girona Recycling Center)
- Year: 2016
- Location: Bonmatí, Spain
- Sector: MSW landfills, Waste management, Container recycling, PET recycling and biogas plants
- Division: Air
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Project description
Exide Technologies, which operates in more than 80 countries, is one of the world’s largest producers and recyclers of lead acid batteries. During 2010, the amount recycled by Exide was enough to make it one of the top secondary lead recyclers in the world.
It has ten recycling centers worldwide: 6 in the United States, 3 in Europe and 1 in New Zealand.
Request: To purify the sulfuric acid emissions produced during the management and recycling of lead batteries.
Solution: 2 scrubbers + exhaust emission system.
Results
Conform to acid contaminated emission regulations.
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