API PUBL 4587-1994

$22.75

Remote Sensing Feasibility Study of Refinery Fence Line Emissions

Published By	Publication Date	Number of Pages
API	1994	99

Guaranteed Safe Checkout

Category: API

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to our online customer service team by clicking on the bottom right corner. We’re here to assist you 24/7.
Email:[email protected]

Description

This report reviews the state of the art of optical remote sensing (ORS) technology and examines the potential use of ORS systems combined with ancillary measurements such as meteorological and tracer gas release data to determine fugitive emission rates. With the need to track the effectiveness of controls of fugitive emission sources and to conduct downwind health risk assessments for refineries, ORS technology appears to be an attractive tool for characterizing an entire facility's emissions. The American Petroleum Institute (API) sponsored this technical review effort as part of its planning for a refinery emissions field study in which ORS methods might be used. The report concludes that under some special conditions, ORS systems can document the fugitive emissions and that no prior studies preclude the need for API to carry out an evaluation of the general concept. The report highlights some issues to consider in planning such a study and clarifies the attendant tradeoffs for issues such as: selection of appropriate ORS systems, consideration of detection limits and beam placement, choice of dispersion models, use of tracer gas releases, time scale and timing of field studies and the requisite meteorological measurements. Finally, the report emphasizes that the uses of ORS instrumentation for the determination of aromatic emissions is perhaps the most difficult and challenging of the possible use of the ORS at refineries. When compared to the current point sampling methods, however, the current ORS systems have the potential for integrating the multiple small sources that comprise the overall fugitive emission plume.

Additional information