I've seen that before from our lovely refinery farms in NSL and SLC. I asked my father-in-law who works for an oil company at one of the refineries what was up with that.
The flares that are constantly burning on the towers serve as an emergency release valve if something in the refining towers goes wrong. The excess product that is running through the system is sent to the flare towers to be burned to keep it from building up in the refining towers and causing an actually dangerous problem.
Its possible that the pictures you have are an example of a situation like that taking place.
It seems like it's been happening a lot lately at one refinery in Woods Cross. Maybe if they stopped burning off so much oil from the stacks, our gas prices would go down.
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What kind of emission is this?
A common occurence in Bountiful,
I assume not. So, is there an
explanation?
I've seen that before from our lovely refinery farms in NSL and SLC. I asked my father-in-law who works for an oil company at one of the refineries what was up with that.
The flares that are constantly burning on the towers serve as an emergency release valve if something in the refining towers goes wrong. The excess product that is running through the system is sent to the flare towers to be burned to keep it from building up in the refining towers and causing an actually dangerous problem.
Its possible that the pictures you have are an example of a situation like that taking place.
It seems like it's been happening a lot lately at one refinery in Woods Cross. Maybe if they stopped burning off so much oil from the stacks, our gas prices would go down.
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