flare gas Articles
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Refinery flare gas H2S removal
A major Gulf Coast refinery was searching for a solution to reduce flare gas SO2 that was resulting from very high H2S concentrations during periodic venting events. Original considerations were limited to very costly upstream equipment changes or a sulphur recovery unit, all costing tens of millions of dollars. Macrotek was contracted to design and build a cost-effective H2S scrubbing unit to ...
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Inspired innovation
As the drive towards energy independence in the US continues at full speed, oil and gas companies are turning to hydraulic fracturing to increase production. Increasingly stringent state and national regulations for flare gas in particular now require the installation of mass flow measurement instruments to measure waste and excess gases burned off as a result of the hydraulic fracturing process. ...
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Kranj (SLO) Municipal Plants - Case Study
Digester: 5.000 m³ sewage sludge digestion Scope of services: sewage sludge digester agitator, flare, gas equipment, gas storage, desulphurization Start-up: ...
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Gas Mass Flow Metering - Innovations Promise More Economical Choices- White Paper
Introduction As the drive towards energy independence in the United States continues at full speed, oil and gas companies are turning to hydraulic fracturing to increase production. Increasingly stringent state and national regulations for flare gas in particular now require the installation of mass flow measurement instruments to measure waste and excess gases burned off as a result of the ...
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Applications guide to mass flow measurement in the petroleum industry
The measurement and control of gas flows in production, refinery, and R&D operations has a direct effect on efficiency, costs, safety, and environmental standards. Sierra mass flow meters and controllers pro- vide direct, fast-response measurement at all levels, to make any opera- tion more effective. Here is a brief summary of the advantages they offer the industry. Direct, Wide-Range ...
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Flare gas mass flow metering innovations promise more economical choices
INTRODUCTION As the drive towards energy independence in the United States continues at full speed, oil and gas companies are turning to hydraulic fracturing to increase production. Increasingly stringent state and national regulations for flare gas in particular now require the installation of mass flow measurement instruments to measure waste and excess gases burned off as a result of the ...
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Green Energy Applications Guide to Flow Measurement
Provides technical discussion and illustrations for nine (9) different green energy and green-house gas flow measurement applications. Includes landfill gas, biomass fermentation, wastewater digesters, on-farm biogas recovery, ethanol production/refining, coal mine and coal bed methane (CMM, CBM), biomass gasification, flare gas and flue gas. Discussion includes overview of each application and ...
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How to Reduce Methane Emissions with Thermal Mass Flow Meters
The flare gas discussion is heating up again. According to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. oil production is at an all-time high, and so are the harmful methane emissions from leaks, flaring and venting. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has proposed to update 30-year-old regulations in order to reduce the excess release of natural gas into the atmosphere from oil and gas ...
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ARA Meiningen (AUT) Municipal Plants - Case Study
Digester: 1 x 4.000 m³ sewage sludge digestion Scope of services: sewage sludge digester agitator, flare, heat exchanger, gas equipment Start-up: ...
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Grosuplje (SLO) Municipal Plants - Case Study
Digester: 2 x 635 m³ sewage sludge digestion Scope of services: sewage sludge digester agitator, flare, heat exchanger, gas storage, gas equipment Start-up: ...
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Drehid waste management facility, Kildare, Ireland
AFS were appointed as the contractor to design, build and install a gas booster flaring system capable of power generation and gas control on a new waste management facility in Co. Kildare. The flaring system: has the facility to install additional gas scrubbing and filtration equipment at a later date if required. meets all of the EPA requirements for landfill gas flaring systems. can ...
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Gas-to-energy plant; production of electricity with landfill gas
Type Degassing installation HOFGAS®- Ready 600 Commissioning January 2002 Site Landfill of Bovenfeld (NL) Situation The 9ha large landfill site Bovenfeld is located 150km northeast of Amsterdam. The resulting landfill gas has to be cleaned, in accordance with the local legislation. A degassing plant with power generation was aimed at, with economic considerations in mind. In ...
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Finding the needle in the hay stack - tracing seabed gas seepages using hullborne multibeam echo sounder, and AUV based sonar and optical systems case study
Scientific objective A better understanding of the shallow geological systems in the Barents Sea with particular attention to fluid flow Specific objectives Identify regional spatial distribution of gas flares within an area of 3000 km2 in the Barents Sea Identify and describe associated structures (i.e. pockmarks, carbonate reefs) using geomorphology Document associated structures with ...
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New Developments in Thermal Dispersion Mass Flow Meters: In-The-Field Compensation for Changes in Natural Gas Composition
Introduction The flow of natural gas in pipelines is often complicated by changes in the composition of the gas. The method described in this paper solves the problem of variable composition via a new four-temperature mass flow sensor. The new (low sensor feeds its measurements into the algorithms of an advanced mathematical model that includes gas properties in its calculations. The method ...
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Navigating the Future: Ultrasonic flow measurements in flare installations
In today's highly competitive process industry, continuous optimization of operations and service work is crucial. Moreover, as environmental regulations pertaining to flaring become increasingly stringent, it becomes imperative to employ reliable and efficient flow measurement solutions. For over 30 years, ultrasonic flow meters have been utilized to measure flow to flare stacks. However, flare ...
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Expansion of waste water treatment plant, Switzerland
Type HOFGAS®- IFL2c Commissioning 2005 Site WWTP Bern (Berne, Switzerland) Initial Situation The purification services provided by WWTP Region Bern so far are no longer adequate. The expansion project comprises new constructions, the new organic waste water treatment stage and the associated sludge liquor treat-ment. As a result, more sewage gas accumulates, outstripping the ...
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Holmestown waste management facility, Wicklow, Ireland
AFS were appointed by Wicklow County Council to design, build and install a flaring system that would last the life-cycle of their new waste management facility. We designed a flare that could safely extract gases being generated by the new facility; the flare could operate at up to 2000m3/hr but would also operate effectively at very low flow rates. The current configuration includes a ...
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Advanced thermal dispersion mass flowmeters
Thermal dispersion (TD) mass flowmeters measure the mass flowrate of fluids (primarily gases) flowing through a closed conduit, such as a pipe. This article describes the operation and installation of TD mass flowmeters, and gives the reader information about what applications these meters are most suited for. Background The first general description of TD mass flowmeters is attributed to L.V. ...
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Fuel Control Key to Meeting Emissions Limits
Water Injection Application Opts for Engine Rather Than Electric Power Enticed by a grant offered by the state of California's Energy Commission, Tidelands Oil Production Co. of Southern California found a way to make good use of on-site gas and lower its utility bill at the same time. Tidelands recently installed a Waukesha Engine VHP P9390 GSI and pump package fueled by gas previously flared ...
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New Developments in Thermal Dispersion Mass Flow Meters
Introduction This paper describes a newly developed microprocessor-based thermal dispersion mass flow meter that uses four temperature sensing elements in its flow sensor instead of the traditional two elements and automatically manages changes in gas selection, gas temperature, gas pressure, and outside temperature. This new mass flow meter is ideally suited for apportionment applications in ...
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