Paradox IP LLC

Paradox IP LLC Research & Development, Manufacturer & Sales of flame arrestors, inline flame arrestors, & USCG Approved detonation flame arresters.

Meeting increasingly stringent federal, state, and local air quality regulations and complying with higher safety standards requires advanced technological solutions. Paradox Intellectual Properties Inc. provides quality products in the design, patent, testing and manufacture of Flame Arresters, to meet the technological challenges of environmental and safety standards. Our staff have been leading

the effort in meeting these environmental technological challenges since 1989. Detonation Flame Arrester products were created in response to environmental regulations (such as The Clean Air Act) which required liquid product storage terminals and hydrocarbon processing plants to control evaporation hydrocarbon emissions from loading and storage operations In 1989 this new regulations now required the recovery of gaseous vapors and their incineration necessary. This is a required alternative to the practice of venting gases into the atmosphere. Incineration and vapor recovery, however, create greater safety risks. Companies that engage in this operation have critical safety concerns. In systems containing flammable liquid and vapor products, protection against flashback is vital as conditions exist for potential detonations. This process is called vapor control. Two types of recognized vapor control technologies are commonly used; carbon adsorption vapor recovery and vapor destruction or combustion. Vapor destruction systems include elevated flare systems, enclosed flare systems, burner and catalytic incineration systems, and waste gas boilers. Both systems require flame or detonation flame arresters to maximize safety. Detonation flame arresters are used in many industries, including refining, pharmaceutical, chemical, and petrochemical, pulp and paper, oil exploration and production, sewage treatment, landfills, mining, power generation, and bulk liquids transportation. Flame arresters are passive devices with no moving parts. They prevent the propagation of flame from the exposed side of the unit to the protected side by the use of metal matrix creating a torturous path called a flame cell or element. All detonation flame arresters operate on the same principle: removing heat from the flame as it attempts to travel through narrow passages with walls of metal or other heat-conductive material, but unlike flame arresters, detonation flame arresters must be built to withstand extreme pressures that travel at supersonic velocities, 1,500 psia @ 2500 m/sec is not uncommon with a group D Gas. Our Tested and proven Detonation Flame Arrester designs currently provide the maximum flame arrestment protection and reliability and are economically priced. Paradox Detonation Flame Arresters have been accepted by the U.S. Coast Guard, the benchmark of U.S. performance standards, for use in Marine Terminals. We currently have 96 US Coast Guard approved models, more than any other US company. Overall, Paradox has more than 200 flame arrester models for various applications and gas groups, including hydrogen. Our unique design features allow for larger flame channels that require less maintenance and provide greater ease in cleaning when service is needed. Paradox Detonation Flame Arresters are bi-directional and built to withstanding both low and high pressure deflagrations as well as stable and overdriven detonations. The Group “D” element is rated a Type I for flame stabilization with an initial operating pressure of 22.7 psia. Detonation Flame Arresters are installed in a variety of systems such as;

Storage tank facilities
Offshore drilling and production platforms Oil/petrochemical refineries
Chemical processing plants
Pulp and paper plants
Pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities Natural gas supply lines
Flare stacks
Vapor Control Systems
Vapor incineration systems
vapor recovery systems
Landfill gas incineration
Sewage treatment vapor processing

01/01/2024

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AFB'S Anti-Flashback Burners. Why are Approved AFBs failing? Is there a solution?Numerous Combuster Burner manufacturers...
05/05/2021

AFB'S Anti-Flashback Burners. Why are Approved AFBs failing? Is there a solution?
Numerous Combuster Burner manufacturers that use Anti-flashback burners in marine v***r control systems in place of a liquid seal (as indicated by 33CFR154.2109) and inland v***r control systems have contacted Paradox's seeking solutions for AFB failure. To mitigate the inevitable, the company FSRs (Field Service Reps) would use elaborate startup procedures to work around the low flow rates that would lead to a failure. What transpired was two years of R&D with Paradox testing dozens of AFBs independently supplied by various manufactures and writing several reports; the same recurring problems became clear. There needed to be an established method for designing, manufacturing, and testing AFB products.
For their part, the USCG suggested that they may have their advisory committee (National Transportation Safety Advisory Committee, the successor to CTAC) investigate. In the meantime, Paradox decided to invest resources to develop a design and test method.
Paradox successfully developed, tested, and gained Approval for an AFB product line that is far superior to any previously USCG Approved AFB.

https://paradoxintellectual.com/uploads/3/5/0/4/35044814/paradox_ip_anti-flashback_burner_rev_3.pdf

(NEW) The First & Only in the World; Propylene Oxide Detonation Flame ArresterUSCG Approved for Gases with an MESG of 0....
09/24/2020

(NEW) The First & Only in the World; Propylene Oxide Detonation Flame Arrester
USCG Approved for Gases with an MESG of 0.28mm & greater.

Paradox Intellectual Properties (Paradox IP), working with the USCG and End Users have developed a detonation flame arrester for use with Propylene Oxide and similar “nuisance gases”. This product is the only USCG Approved product like it in the world. It is tested and approved for gases having an MESG of 0.28mm and above. (0.28mm is hydrogen). This tremendous turnaround by the USCG was the result of the information provided to the Coast Guard which showed a potentially dangerous situations where Group “C” Detonation Arresters were mistakenly approved for Propylene Oxide installations. Propylene Oxide, which has an MESG of 0.70 is classed by NEC as Group “B”. Previously detonation flame arresters approved by the USCG for Propylene Oxide were mistakenly Group C, (gases having an MESG greater than 0.65mm). The problem being not all gases react the same when ignited within their prospective explosion limits, refusing to react in the same manner as similar gases that have been classified by using the MESG as the criteria.
Propylene Oxide is one of those gases in which NEC has recognized as a gas that does not follow the MESG classification criteria alone and recommends that a flame arrester used to prevent an explosion with this gas must be a Group “B” (MESG of 0.28mm). Propylene Oxide is not the only gas that has this unique characteristic; 1,3 Butadiene with an MESG of 0.79mm also requires a Group “B” detonation arrester.

09/24/2020
"Awesome Project for NASA" Here at Paradox we are proud to have been ask to contribute our expertise/technology to the ...
02/08/2019

"Awesome Project for NASA" Here at Paradox we are proud to have been ask to contribute our expertise/technology to the future space program. Paradox has just completed a project working with NASA for this Group "B" Deflagration Flame Arrester for the White Sands Testing Facility in New Mexico for an undisclosed research project. This was a challenging design as the element had to be removable, using threaded connections with very little room for the required instrumentation. This was a one of a kind unit, utilizing corrosion resistant materials. After the unit was received by NASA engineers and before it could ever be used, it was completely dismantled and was submitted through a quality control & cleaning process and reassembled. This was a standard procedure for equipment used in their ultra clean testing faculty.

Paradox is happy to announce that Zirco, Canada is now our exclusive independence sales representative for all Canadian ...
06/15/2017

Paradox is happy to announce that Zirco, Canada is now our exclusive independence sales representative for all Canadian Flame Arrester Sales.
http://zirco.com/

ZIRCO calgary instrumentation & environmental solution specialist specializes in emission control products like Thief Hatch,flare stacks & Flame Arrestor.

Spire Energy Company installation of Paradox USCG Approved all Stainless Detonation Arresters on an LNG flare.
02/26/2017

Spire Energy Company installation of Paradox USCG Approved all Stainless Detonation Arresters on an LNG flare.

02/26/2017
02/20/2017

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Another completed Flame Arrester made from 316SS for a 16" pipe connection and fitted with thermocouples.
01/27/2017

Another completed Flame Arrester made from 316SS for a 16" pipe connection and fitted with thermocouples.

Just completed, a 304 stainless steel custom built deflagration arrester for a customer. This beautiful flame Arrester i...
11/28/2016

Just completed, a 304 stainless steel custom built deflagration arrester for a customer. This beautiful flame Arrester is for 6" pipe and group D gas and was designed to fit into an existing piping system with a critical fl**ge to fl**ge dimension.

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10/11/2016

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