Refinery Sector Rule Focus on Flare Combustion Control Parameters

Paper from the AFRC 2016 conference titled Refinery Sector Rule Focus on Flare Combustion Control Parameters

Recent United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) regulations included in the; Refinery Sector Rule (RSR) modifications concerning flares have focused on improving; combustion efficiency at refinery flares. As part of these new regulations, the USEPA has; required facilities to comply with a Net Heating Value in the combustion zone (NHVcz) for each; affected flare. This compliance point requires active control of a flare that has not been required; previously. The RSR provided two methods for showing compliance with the NHVcz, the direct; method and the feed forward method. Each method has details that need to be considered and; the flare monitoring technologies chosen will likely drive the decision to which option a facility; utilizes. The presentation will provide a brief overview of the new flare requirements of the RSR; and will provide an in depth discussion of the flare control options.