We have gone to using a food grade of oil [Ingersoll Rand SSR H-1R Coolant] in our Ingersoll Rand Compressors - we are now getting an odor (after 12 weeks) in the air that smells like hot wax. The odor is pretty strong near the compressors - but in confined areas where plant air is used you can...
First be carefull of old transformer oil that contains PCB's
Secondly you would need to determine that the media you are considerting (cat litter for example) is selectively absorb the contaminant - much of this litter is clay -
You can get speicific information from some of the the big...