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Accident # | 102619 |
State Police # | 08-00512 |
Accident Date | 2008-01-21 |
Report Date | 2008-05-06 |
Follow-up Date | 0000-00-00 |
Follow-up: | No Information Provided |
Pollutant | Duration | Point Source | Greenhouse Gas | Criteria Pollutant | Ozone forming chemical | Amount of Release |
Sulfur Dioxide | 8 days | FLARE- pressure relief valves in the #2 SRU complex / North and South Flares | NO | YES | NO | 38,400.0 pounds |
Hydrogen Sulfide | 8 days | FLARE- pressure relief valves in the #2 SRU complex / North and South Flares | NO | NO | NO | BRQ |
Accident Classified As:
leaking pressure relief valves in the #2 SRU complex.
This incident was not preventable because the PRV malfunctions were not predictable events, as recognized by NSPS for flares that exempt PRV leakage. Also, permitted emission rates at both the North and South flares are based on estimated provided by a refinery-wide survey. not on monitoring data. NOTE: In the report Murphy acknowledges the flow to the North Flare could not be reliably ascertained (no reason given why it couldn't be), the quantity can only be estimated. It was estimated that ave sulfur dioxide emissions from this incident were 200 pounds per hour at the North Flare. They claim that MOUSA is currently on the process of developing an advanced flow monitoring system for both flares. I cam up with the total amount of sulfur di
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