Recent Projects

February 2010 – Ipiranga, Brazil

A major rail car terminal operator in the Sao Paulo region of Brazil, Companhia Brasileira de Petroleo Ipiranga, has selected SYMEX Americas to design and install one new DRYVac™ Vapor Recovery System to prevent air pollution and recover valuable hydrocarbons generated during their rail car loading operations in Paulinea. This system will be partially manufactured in Brazil to minimize import duties and freight costs for Ipiranga.

August, 2009 - The Chinese Petroleum Company

The Chinese Petroleum Company has commissioned Bay Oil and Equipment (Beijing) Company, Ltd. to produce designs for two new DRYVac™ Vapor Emissions Control Systems in China. One is a large crude oil terminal system, and the other is a BTEX system. Bay Oil is SYMEX Americas licensee in China. SYMEX Americas produces the engineering and designs for all systems for Bay Oil’s clients.

February, 2009 – KBR Orders DRYVac™ for Trinidad

The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago selected Kellogg-Brown and Root (KBR) to design, procure, and construct a grass-roots fuels terminal in Trinidad. KBR evaluated VRU proposals from all supplier firms and selected SYMEX Americas based overall performance and very favorable feedback from SYMEX Americas client-users. This is a large DRYVac™ system is being fabricated and will ship to Trinidad later this year.

December 2, 2008 – Ecuador Orders its First VRU

After years of discussions and planning Ecuador placed an order with SYMEX Americas for its first VRU, a DRYVac™ system geared to meet the growing demands for cleaner air in Quito. After a few typical international delays, this system shipped in the summer of 2009.

October 22, 2008 – HWRT’s first DRYVac™ VRU Starts Up.

HWRT has burned its gasoline vapors for years. With the rising value of gasoline, they decided to look at the economics of recovery, and after looking at other suppliers, they chose SYMEX Americas based on experience, reliability, and recommendations from other DRYVac™ users. This completely new DRYVac™ system was delivered in five months. It has proven the wisdom of HWRT’s decision by recovering over 106,000 gallons of gasoline and averaging less than 4.5 mg/L emissions since start-up.

July 30, 2008 – Puerto Rico’s First DRYVac™ VRU!

At the end of July 2008 our partner/representative, El Dorado Services in San Juan installed the first dry vapor recovery system in Puerto Rico for PUMA (Trafigura) in their new Cataño fuels loading terminal. This was a retrofit of a very old McGill VRU originally sold to Texaco. Only the carbon beds were used in this retrofit; all else was brand new. Everyone was sure the old carbon beds would be too small for this four-bay terminal, but with FlowMax™ carbon they perform perfectly. The system has already recovered over 60,000 gallons of gasoline and emissions are always below 6 mg/L.

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