Carbon Adsorption Towers

Our Carbon Absorption Tower is specifically designed to remove Oil and Oil vapour from a compressed air stream.
The compressed air (laden with oil vapour) enters the bottom of the Carbon Tower and flows upward through the bed and exits out the top.

The Special Activated Carbon has a great affinity for Oil and Oil Vapour; therefore it works by adsorbing contaminates onto the surface of its internal pores and allows the Oil and Oil vapour to be impregnated and retained onto the surface of the Carbon.

Oxair Carbon Adsorption Towers have been designed, engineered, manufactured and factory-tested to ensure many years of reliable operation.

The Carbon Adsorption Tower has been designed to prevent bed movement and carbon degradation (dusting) through maximum flow conditions.

The Oxair Carbon Adsorption Tower consists of a single tower (pressure vessel) filled with a special Activated Carbon adsorbent.

• The large beds ensure sufficient contact time to produce the outlet concentrations as desired.
• Separate fill and drain ports for ease of carbon replacement
• No piping to disconnect
• Stainless Steel screens and screen diffusers (top and bottom). Prevents Carbon channelling
• Life of Carbon is usually a minimum 3 years under constant operation

The Carbon Tower is primarily used to reduce oil vapour in compressed air to very low concentrations. Other hydrocarbon vapours normally absorbable by activated Carbon are also removable.

Oil Free Compressed air in They are used where Oil Vapour and the subsequent Odour produced in the compressed air stream could contaminate end products

• Food Industry
• Wineries
• Drug Manufacture
• Odour Elimination into Confined worker Environments
• Removing oil vapour ahead of desiccant air dryers to preserve desiccant life.
• Air Separation Plants

Carbon Tower with Pre-Filtration Skid for Air Separation plant