Could someone tell me the function of the tall towers at these refineries with flames coming out their tops? I wish I had a picture, but I'm sure the description will do, for anyone who's seen one
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Wells Chang wrote:During normal operation, the system should be capable of recovering between 70% and 90% Propane , Propylene, Butene and Butane by means of the absorbent rectification process. The other oil gases such as HsS and Di. Oleofin, etc. are treated as flare gases and are sent to the torch for burn off with other flare gases from other sources. As an alternative the HsS can be transported to the de-sulfide column, at which point sulfide is extracted by means of the de-sulfide process.
Eli wrote:Today is the day that PO story will break out imho.
My local news is already talking about how we have hit record high gas prices in the state the funny thing is the article came out today and they are of by about .10$. Gas has already moved higher.
If something does not stop gas and oil prices and nothing seems to be showing up to do that Gas and oil prices are going to start swamping the airwaves. Followed by bad economic news.
Did you see that there was another refinery fire this time in Philly? Another 300,000 barrel facility down. What is the current amount of production already offline because of fires. I heard it was the wee heavey curde they are processing is this true?
Raxozanne wrote:The evening BBC national news at 6 'o' clock reported on record petrol prices across the nation. The subject was third on the list, after the conviction of the 4 terrorist bomb suspects and the Discovery space shuttle. They also reported the prices were predicted to go higher. Maybe that managed to wake a few people up.
seldom_seen wrote:Even as oil sores towards 100/barrel, I think we will still be told that war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength.
Anyone with an inquisitive nature will surely look beyond the propaganda and discover the 10,000 pound oil depletion gorilla staring them in the face.
However, the people at the control panel of the megamachine will be desperate to keep the wheels of the machine spinning, so they will go to great lengths to divert, confuse and muddle the issue.
Anton Riecher, editor of Industrial Fire World, addressed the subject of coker fires in a May 1999 article: "It is almost certain," he wrote, "that fires and explosions involving coker units will continue into the new millennium with disturbing frequency." The reason is that the crude stock now sent to coking units has a greater sulfur and heavier metal content than in years past. At high temperatures, these materials promote corrosion of the tanks.
Additionally, the coking process is inherently destructive of tanks. Though catastrophic structural failures of coking units are practically unknown, the frequent heating and cooling cycles tend to promote cracking and bulging at discontinuities. When a leak occurs and the superheated, pressurized product escapes from the tanks, it expands rapidly and is easily ignited.
Eli wrote:all these fires add up to pretty damning evidence that the refinerys are not able to handle all this heavy crude in this quantity.
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