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Vortx Kleanair Systems Offers Wet Scrubber Ecofilter for Roaster Emissions

| August 18, 2021

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Ron Kleist (middle) at the Vortx booth at a World of Coffee event. All images courtesy of Vortx.

A relatively young California-based company by the name of Vortx Kleanair Systems has launched a cooler, wetter solution for treating emissions from traditional gas coffee roasters.

Vortx’s flagship product, the Ecofilter, is a wet scrubber positioned by the company as an alternative to incineration-based afterburners and other smoke and odor reduction systems for the commercial coffee roasting industry.

The Ecofilter consumes water and electricity instead of gas and operates at lower temperatures while reducing emissions by up to 90%, according to the company.

“The driving force behind VortX is simple,” Ron Kleist, president of Vortx and co-inventor of the Ecofilter, told Daily Coffee News. “We wake up every day deeply concerned with the health of our planet and our desire to provide the means for specialty coffee roasters around the world to take a leadership role in making those changes which are immediately possible to limit the damage already done.”

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A Vortx Ecofilter installation at the roastery of World Traveler Coffee in Sacramento, California. Daily Coffee News file photo, courtesy of World Traveler Coffee.

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The EcoFilter uses the energy of a cyclone plus the power of atomized water to filter particulates from exhaust air, mute odors and reduce visible smoke.

The self-cleaning system recycles its water and requires less than 15 minutes of daily maintenance.

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  • "We are part of a public market a major retail center in Oxnard, CA. We didn’t want our smoke and odor going into the neighborhood and negatively impacting people’s lives. We want to produce the cleanest air we can using the best method we can, so we are using the VortX to handle the cleaning of our air. It’s awesome because there is minimal cleaning and it’s a much better option for our business."

    Shawn Pritchett, Co-Owner Ragamuffin Coffee Roasters

  • "At CO-RO one of our core values is sustainability and using a traditional afterburner really undermines that core value. The VortX uses water vapor and the only energy the VortX needs is the energy to run the water pump. If you care about the environment you have to look at a better technology and we're really proud to be one of the first installations of the VortX."

    Floy Andrews, CEO of CO-RO, Berkeley

About VortX

Scientists have been warning us for many years that climate change is an existential threat and that we can, we must, do something about it. Every day this deep concern drives us to help our customers, the specialty coffee industry, play a leading role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions while keeping a commitment to clean air and a safe operation.

We founded VortX because we knew there had to be a better way to filter smoke and odor, or more precisely – particulates, VOCs and products of combustion from coffee roasting exhaust.

When we discovered the impact made by instantly cooling the hot, dirty air from a roaster, the VortX EcoFilter was born. We sold our first unit in 2017 and in 4 short years we have established customers on 6 continents. These “early adopters” helped us focus on refining and improving our technology. We love every one of them; they helped us make the EcoFilter the impressive solution it is today.

We continue to serve the retrofit market and we are now building products for roaster manufacturers who are bringing to market a new generation of smokeless/odorless roasters.