Press release
March 2015
KBA-CleanAir – Converting Exhaust Air to Energy
Efficient solutions for air purification and heat storage
KBA-MetalPrint, a subsidiary of Koenig & Bauer, the world's second largest printing
press manufacturer, is the market leader in metal decorating. The product range
includes printing and coating lines, drying technology and air purification systems.
KBA-CleanAir, the environmental division of KBA, offers efficient solutions for the
purification of solvent-polluted or odour intensive exhaust air. Steadily increasing legal
demands call for the development of new solutions, in particular for industries with
aggressive exhaust air streams or strong odour problems. The KBA-CleanAir portfolio
includes thermal recuperative, thermal regenerative and catalytic air purification
systems. The ZEROClean concept deploys a combination of concentration and thermal
post treatment.
Typical areas of applications are all solvent-processing or odour-producing industries,
such as the printing industry, surface finishing, metal packaging industry, coating, dye
and paint manufacture, chemical industry and plastics manufacture. Air purification
systems are also increasingly applied in industries associated with offensive odours,
such as the animal meal industry, the fish industry, coffee roasting plants or breweries.
By numerous innovations KBA-CleanAir demonstrates their competence. XtraActiveTM,
the new and innovative ceramic heat exchanger material based on nanoparticle
technology significantly reduces the energy consumption of air purification systems.
Sophisticated energy management systems drive down the operational costs to an
absolute minimum and optimize the system availability.
Yet another example of this innovative strength is its high-temperature heat storage
system. KBA-CleanAir has developed a worldwide brand-new solution for the storage and
deferred use of thermal energy/surplus energy and successfully piloted at the solar tower
power plant in Jülich, Germany. This technology enables the storage of solar energy or
waste process heat at temperatures of up to 1000° C for use at a later, user- defined,
date. Areas of application are energy-intensive industries, such as iron, steel and
aluminium production, glass, brick and ceramic manufacture, chemical industries and
solar tower power plants. Regenerative thermal oxidisers (RTOs) for example are suitable
for operation as heat storage systems.
KBA-CleanAir is constantly working to improve these concepts and, in this context, is
currently working together with the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR German Aerospace Center) on a research project for high-temperature solid media
storage systems. The results and insights from this project will be incorporated in the
technical design of standard products, thus ensuring the highest product standards.
RTO in 3-canister design in the automotive industry for an exhaust air
volume of 100,000 m³/h
For more details please contact:
KBA-MetalPrint GmbH
KBA-CleanAir Division
Dietmar Decker
Wernerstr. 119-129
D-70597 Stuttgart
Tel: +49-711-69971-0
Fax: +49-711-69971-670
cleanair@kba-metalprint.de
www.kba-cleanair.de
Your contact at ICE:
Dietmar Decker
Mobile: +49-172 7103565
dietmar.decker@kba-metalprint.de