Patent ID: 7833494

Claim:
An apparatus for destruction of volatile organic compounds, comprising: a VOC collector that collects volatile organic compounds from at lease one source of VOCs; a thermodynamic destroyer that thermodynamically destroys collected VOCs adapted to combust a primary fuel and operating to thermodynamically destroy collected VOCs by at least one of combusting collected VOCs which have been combined with the fuel and thermodynamically destroying collected VOCs which have been maintained separate from the primary fuel; a VOC transporter that transports collected VOCs from the VOC collector to the thermodynamic destroyer; a controller that controls the feed of collected VOCs upstream of the thermodynamic destroyer to ensure that the level of the collected VOCs fed to the thermodynamic destroyer is below a predetermined limit; wherein the VOC transporter includes a device, responsive to the controller, for selectively combining collected VOCs with ambient air to maintain the level of the collected VOC's below the predetermined limit; and a polishing device responsive to the controller for controlling exhaust gas temperature and dwell time of the thermodynamic destroyer in response to a monitored VOC destruction level.