Houston area (along with DB's not from Houston) BS thread

You killed the thread with your Warriors bullshit.


Its the Rocket's own damn fault.

 

#project

 

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I miss the Houston Aeros. #bringhockeyback

 

The Sharks are in the western finals again....you could root for them!

 

He doesnt want to get cancer.....

 

I wish there was even a college team in Houston.. I'm considering going to Corpus for a game just to get my fix.

 

Over here in Louisiana I don’t get to see the stars. I get see this bright flare every night. This flare has been burning almost nonstop since beginning of the year. Love it

 

So much nope.
That's why I'm glad the plants in Alvin are on the outskirts of the city limits. Sometime I can see Ineos' flares from town (about 15 miles away). And the bigger they get the louder they get.

 

What do these flares do??

 

They burn. When a chemical plant has a flare instead of just steam coming out it means something is wrong.

 

I don’t think that’s right.

 

That's what it means here on the bayou anyways. The flare is burning off toxic chemicals instead of letting em into the atmosphere. But if things were business as usual, there would be no flair, just steam.

 

I was told that the product, whatever it may be, is constantly flowing or piped. If a process is stopped or slowed the product has to have somewhere to go so it doesn't go all splodey. So it's burned off. So really '"something is wrong" is the easy explanation.

 

Flares provide cheap and natural illumination for the immediate and surrounding areas.

 

Flares are important safety devices used in refineries and petrochemical facilities. They safely burn excess hydrocarbon gases which cannot be recovered or recycled. Excess hydrocarbon gases are burnt in the flare systems in an environmentally-sound manner, as an alternative to releasing the vapour directly into the atmosphere.

During flaring, excess gases are combined with steam and/or air, and burnt off in the flare system to produce water vapour and carbon dioxide. The process of burning these excess gases is similar to the burning of liquefied petroleum gases (LPG), which some of us use as fuel for home cooking.

The use of flares is minimised to the extent that is possible. However, flaring can occur during a start-up and shut-down of any of our facilities for maintenance, and also during unplanned operational interruptions such as power outages.

When there is flaring at our facilities, we follow established guidelines to promptly inform our neighbouring companies and Government agencies such as the National Environmental Agency (NEA) and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF).

There are generally two types of flares that we use at our Singapore manufacturing facilities:

• Elevated flares, where the flare tip is between 20 to 150 meters above ground.
• Ground flares, where the flare tip is about two to three meters above ground, which is fenced off with a high heat-shield fencing, which also acts as a safety zone

 

So this facility that has been flaring off gas for the last 6 months is an old ethylene unit that was shut down years ago. The joint venture named indorama purchased the facility and has been trying to start it up. Word on street from all the local operators and engineers is that the plant had been shut down so long that trees are growing out the sides of equipment. When you drive past the place it looks like a giant rust bucket.

 

Lol