TO: NEWS MEDIA DATE: June, 2003

FROM: Olavo C. Leite, Principal Consultant

SUBJECT: Process Combustion Systems; Press Release update

THERMICA Technologies, USA, provides engineering and consulting services for environmental and combustion applications. THERMICA Technologies is not an equipment manufacturer, but we can provide the system and equipment design required for a successful project. Our firm's staff has very deep professional experience in designing custom burners, flares, gas/liquid incinerators and combustion systems working successfully worldwide. The product line design is fully updated to incorporate many typical features that improve overall plant performance and operation. These systems are custom designed with the customer to meet efficiency and reliability requirements as well as stringent emission regulations.

We at THERMICA Technologies have an understanding of all project interfaces, from inception to completion, and will work with customers to implement the proper solution. We can create specifications to meet a customer's particular requirements, solicit quotations from appropriate vendors, and help evaluate the proposals. Also, we can help keeping projects on schedule and on budget. THERMICA Technologies can provide customers with reliable, cost-effective solutions to combustion related problems. Our control schemes are offered for the full host of systems, with a focus on safety, efficiency and reliability. Each design is suited to the customer's or the site's needs.

List of Services

Our staff has a wide range of industry experience, our typical projects are primarily combustion related. We are determined to keep a leading position in the combustion, flaring and incineration fields. Our Mission is to provide professional expertise in combustion related processes to a variety of industries, to enhance air quality and to improve personnel safety.

Areas in which we have specific expertise are:

• Incinerator packages for liquid and gaseous waste streams.
• Flare systems for normal and emergency operation.
• Standard or low-NOx burners for incinerators, furnaces and industrial boilers.
• Burners and associated equipment for sulfur recovery plants
• Special waste gas and liquid burners and injectors.
• Direct fired air heaters.
• Engineering packages for combustion systems and related services

Olavo C. Leite, Principal Consultant, THERMICA Technologies, is available to provide services for the design of combustion, incineration, flaring and air pollution control systems and equipment. Also, he will be available to present short-courses on combustion, incineration and flaring. The courses are designed to provide a guide for practicing engineers and involved in the design, application or operating combustion, flaring, incineration and air pollution control systems. The course content includes combustion basics, process combustion systems and equipment (burners, incinerators, thermal oxidizers, flares, etc.), air pollution control for particulate matter and acid gases.

THERMICA Technologies engineers have participated in conferences and seminars relating to combustion technology, often presenting articles and papers on major industry magazines and international conferences. The following is a list of publications, written by THERMICA Technologies personnel on INCINERATION, FLARING and GAS TECHNOLOGY.

THERMICA Technologies welcomes you to contact us so that we may show you how our technology and design capabilities could be utilized to improve your combustion systems.