recuperative thermal oxidizer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English
56
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
9
Syllables
16
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of thermal oxidizer for treating air pollutants of all types, especially VOCs and odours, by burning the gases in an oven at about 800ºC for about 1 second, while recuperating part of the heat generated from the combustion of said pollutants to pre-heat the entering polluted air, thus reducing energy costs.