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Why respirable crystalline silica causes silicosis and lung cancer, where workers are exposed, OSHA and MSHA limits with a TWA example, and how to pick wet methods, local exhaust, baghouses or scrubbers.

Plain, impregnated and catalytic grades compared by target gas, Sirocco adsorber design, ASTM data sheet values and a mass balance for media life with humidity limits.

Capture at the source and process vents; adsorbers, wet scrubbers and biofilters by stream type; a toluene carbon bed sizing example; breakthrough monitoring and media change-out.

Countercurrent, cocurrent and crossflow columns, absorber, stripper and azeotrope duties, fill vs trays, ring weights and temperature limits, flooding-based sizing, U.S. codes and ΔP troubleshooting.