flaring Articles
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Application of a Wireless Remote Monitoring System on a Landfill Flare Station
ABSTRACT The Seminole Road Landfill flare station in DeKalb County, Georgia was previously equipped with an automatic telephone dialer system that contacted the operators of the flare via telephone when the flare station shut down and there were frequent flare station shut downs. During flare station shut downs all repairs required labor intensive response to physically visit the facility ...
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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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Suldouro waste management facility, Porto, Portugal
AFS designed, built and installed two gas booster skids with elevated flares for a 2MW power generation plant in Porto. The booster skids supply gas at a constant pressure to two Jenbacher gas engines; the gas is pre-filtered down to 5 micron before leaving the booster skid. The booster control panel is constantly communicating with the Jenbacher control system ensuring that the gas is ...
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Raffen landfill site, Cork, Ireland
AFS were awarded a contract to design a gas and leachate collection system, and carry out a 10-week gas pumping trial to evaluate the levels of gas being generated from Raffen Landfill Site. From the pumping trial data, a 200m3/hr HT flare was designed, built and installed. A hydrovane compressor/receiver/dryer package was installed to operate ten pneumatic leachate extraction pumps. Within ...
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BP Schiehallion FPSO case study
The Schiehallion Vessel is a Purpose Built FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading system). The Schiehallion FPSO was specially designed to withstand the harsh climates of areas like the Atlantic Margin. Extreme conditions have been encountered over the past few years of operating experience, which have contributed to improving the knowledge and procedures for operating safely. ...
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Landfill gas analysis telematics in Slovenia case study
Application Landfill - waste to energy Equipment AEMS Location Novo Mesto, Slovenia Customer AFS client, Minerva Žalec d.d Requirement The customer specified a 6-channel landfill gas analyser with secure online internet access for data transmission. Operation Installed and commissioned in June by Automatic Flare Systems (AFS) with a twin-booster 600 m3/hr flare stack, the Geotech AEMS ...
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A major Gold Miner goes into the Valuable Gas Business
Gold Fields Limited (NYSE and JSE- GFI) takes part in worldwide practice of capping greenhouse emissions and trading their value on global markets. The Swiss plant manufacturer Hofstetter Umwelttechnik AG (Hofstetter) has been awarded the contract to build a high quality degassing and flaring unit for the gold major Gold Fields. Gold Fields, as the world's first gold-mining company to sell ...
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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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Stacking up: flare Monitoring from LumaSense
Lenny Shaver, LumaSense Technologies’ director of product management, explains the company’s IR and pyrometer technologies FLARING systems are common in many industries to burn gases before they enter the atmosphere. The safe operation of a flaring system requires the continuous monitoring of pilot flames and flared gases to ensure that vented gases are ignited. As regulatory ...
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Low emission combustion of landfill gas
Type HOFGAS®- Efficiency 2000 (3x) Commissioning July 2002 Site Ämmäsuo Landfill (Espoo, FI) SituationÄmmässuo landfill is located in Espoo, about 20 km from Helsinki. The landfill is the largest one in Finland and one of Europe’s largest. In order to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and eliminate odour problems in the vicinity, the temporary container plants were replaced with 3 ...
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Inferno Series Gas-Assist TGA-642 X 30’ - Case Study #170202
PROJECT DETAILS Location:PermianBasin FlowRateHP:1.5MMSCFD HP100%Smokelessupto:750MCFD HPInletPressure(ΔP):1psig FlowRateLP:750MSCFD LP100%Smokelessupto:450MCFD LPInletPressure(ΔP):1oz/in2 Heating Value: 2,600 BTU/SCF Pilot: Electronic Model 850 Solar Package Install Year: 2017 Aereon’s Inferno Series flare is used here to burn off waste natural gas from a high-pressure ...
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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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Heating value
The CustomerThis Chemical Company is a leading supplier of performance polymers. Their products are used in a wide range of applications including adhesives, coatings, consumer and personal care products, sealants, lubricants, medical, packaging, automotive, paving, roofing and footwear products. The ProcessThe company uses flare stacks to dispose of the waste products collected from its various ...
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Flare Stack Monitoring Minimizes Environmental Impact
EPA Flare Regulations Ensure Safe Flare Stack Operations CAS DataLoggers recently provided the flare stack monitoring solution to a processor of industrial railcars who dispose of the reclaimed chemicals and hydrocarbon liquids using a flare stack. A flare stack is the last line of defense for ensuring that toxic hydrocarbons are neutralized before they are released into the air. Flare stacks use ...
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LFG pumping trials with Automatic Flare Systems (AFS) - Case Study
Application Landfill gas Equipment GA3000 Location United Kingdom Customer Automatic Flare Systems (AFS) Requirement Managing director at AFS, Steve Willacy said, “We want continuous landfill gas monitoring and analysis and to use a data logger to record the results from the gas analyser." Operation AFS uses its mobile flare skid for landfill gas pumping trials to analyse the ...
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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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Capturing the nature of cooperation, unstable cooperation and conflict over international rivers: the story of the Indus, Yarmouk, Euphrates and Tigris rivers
This article analyses the existing definitions of conflict and cooperation over international rivers and introduces new definitions to remedy some of the shortcomings. Conflict tends to be defined as militarised confrontation, firing guns, political flare-ups or deterioration in relations. This range of violence is too wide. To remedy this weakness, it is necessary to incorporate the category of ...
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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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Seropédica landfill
The Seropédica landfill is located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Since the closure of the 130-hectare big Gramacho landfill, Seropédica now receives over 6,000 tons of waste per day. Seropédica is the most modern solid waste treatment center in Brazil and Hofstetter has been awarded the biogas treatment process, as well as the set up of a flaring system at the landfill. ...
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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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