Aftermarket Monday: When Media Fails, Efficiency Disappears

July 7, 2025 -Aftermarket Monday

When Media Fails, Efficiency Disappears

Every oxidizer system has a silent workhorse: the ceramic media.
It’s the part no one sees—but it’s what keeps destruction efficiency high, gas consumption low, and compliance within reach.

When media starts to degrade, performance doesn’t drop overnight.
It slips. Quietly. Until one day, you’re paying double for the same result.

Why Ceramic Media Degrades

Structured ceramic media is engineered to withstand thermal cycling and high-VOC throughput.
But over time, heat stress, particulates, and system imbalance cause it to clog, crack, or fuse.

The warning signs?

Fuel usage climbs slowly.
Pressure builds in the chambers.
VOC performance flattens.

Some systems limp along for months—burning fuel to compensate—until they hit a threshold that forces an emergency shutdown.

What Ship & Shore Recommends

Ship & Shore doesn’t wait for that day to come.
We offer structured media replacement and thermal profiling services designed to catch the problem before it spreads.

We’ve replaced media on systems less than five years old—because they were never profiled, never inspected, and never maintained with the process in mind.

It’s not just about plugging in new material.

 It’s about 

• Matching thermal zones, 
• Matching flow profiles, 
• Matching VOC characteristics

 to the right media and the right install.

What to Do Now

If you’re seeing performance drift—or you haven’t touched your media in three years—it’s time.

Let’s get ahead of it.

25 Years of Clean Air Solutions — Custom Engineered, Customer Focused, Concept to Compliance to Complete.
www.shipandshore.com | info@shipandshore.com | (562) 997-0233

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