Profile: Gulf Coast Environmental Systems, LLC specializes in air pollution control equipment and services. Our capabilities range from initial project development through preventative maintenance programs. Each piece of equipment is specifically designed to meet the environmental and production efficiency needs. Our thermal oxidizers eliminate volatile organic compounds (VOCs) & hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). In addition to air pollution control, we also offer industrial ovens, carbon adsorbers & other custom thermal equipment. Air pollution control equipment is designed in many different ways, shapes, and forms to bring about the cleaning of manufacturing & soil remediation air emitting processes. Thermal recuperative oxidizers have a primary and/or secondary heat exchanger within the system. A primary heat exchanger preheats the incoming dirty air by recuperating heat from the exiting clean air. This is done by a shell and tube heat exchanger or a plate-type exchanger. As the incoming air passes on one side of the metal tube or plate, hot clean air from the combustion chamber passes on the other side of the tube or plate and heat is transferred to the incoming air through the process of conduction using the metal as the medium of heat transfer. In a secondary heat exchanger the same concept applies for heat transfer, but the air being heated by the outgoing clean process stream is being returned to another part of the plant.