Abstract
Most petrochemical complexes and oil refineries
have systems to collect and dispose of
waste gases. Usually this is done by burning in a
flare. Some installations recover these gases by
compressing them into their fuel system. Because
SunOlin shares its flare system with a neighboring
oil refinery, changes to the flare system operation
could have far-reaching impact on both plants.
Therefore, a flare gas recovery system was designed
and installed so that waste gases can be burned
directly in a steam boiler. This was done for
both safety and operational reasons. This presented
a number of interesting design and operating
problems which are discussed in this paper.
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