I once came across a post that said the flare would no longer be able to be used as a means for emergency emissions throughout the plant?
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I once came across a post that said the flare would no longer be able to be used as a means for emergency emissions throughout the plant? I’m not sure if this is true; please let me know, experts
This post was last edited by Wise Ming on 2020-3-18 at 18:49. For normal emissions, recycling can be an option; but what to do in case of an emergency situation (metaphorically: emergency emissions from the entire plant)?
Moreover, not all released gas has value for recycling.
What to do when starting and stopping? What to do in case of an accident? This involves safety!
Yeah, I’m also a bit puzzled, so I wanted to ask the expert for some time off
At a review meeting for the overall design of a large-scale coal chemical project, a so-called renowned expert in coal chemistry asked: Why spend so much money and use so many flares (the project had 5 flare pipelines)? Just use a flare line to send it out and burn it, right? For a moment, the whole place was silent, utterly speechless!
I’m quite puzzled; if torches can’t be used, then what device should be used?
If an oil field lacks flares, large amounts of combustible gas will accumulate around the field in conditions of weak air circulation, posing a significant risk. Less combustible gas can be emitted, but torches are absolutely essential; after all, carbon emissions are still subject to regulations.
In normal large-scale oil refining projects (including coal-to-oil projects), due to the stable emissions of flared gas and its high alkane content, it is possible to install gas receivers for capturing this flared gas, which can then be sent to the boilers in the power plant for combustion. In emergency situations, the flared gas is automatically routed to combustion via a water seal tank. Chemical process flares (such as those in ethylene plants) generally do not recover the flare gas.