Testing and Prediction of Flare Emissions Created during Transient Flare Ignition

Joseph D Smith,Ahti Suo-Antilla,Robert Jackson,Hayder A Al-Hameedi

doi:10.18689/ijpr-1000131

Abstract

Testing and Prediction of Flare Emissions Created during Transient Flare Ignition

Highlights

Flares are the most important safety equipment during upset or sudden shutdown events in the chemical and petrochemical plants
Single tip and three tips flare systems were simulated and verified against experimental test to get Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) combustion model that required for multi tip flare system
The results showed that the multi tip flare system performance can be predicted by using C3d tool

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Introduction

Flares are the most important safety equipment during upset or sudden shutdown events in the chemical and petrochemical plants. They are combusting relief and unusable flammable gases in an open atmosphere to prevent tragic events in the whole system. They used to prevent the atmospheric pollution with different contaminants by converting them to CO2 and water. Regulations for flaring process operation and design such EPA 40 CFR 60.18, and API 521have been established to ensure high flare performance [3] [4]. In the flaring process, ignition can be delayed for unlit flares or extinguished pilot flame flares and unburned hydrocarbons and black carbon (BC) release to the atmosphere

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