scholarly journals Assessment of air pollution control technologies to reduce SOx emission from thermal oxidizer for oil and gas industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 1195 (1) ◽  
pp. 012046
Author(s):  
N H B Haji Nawawi ◽  
M N Jaafar
Keyword(s):  
Flue Gas ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Air Pollution Control ◽  
Process Technology ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Emission Limit ◽  
Emission Limits

Abstract Many countries have put in place, various legislations that govern air emission limits/pollutants from the industries. The common pollutants being monitored are Sulphur Oxides (SOx), Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), particulate matters and dioxins. In Malaysia, the regulatory requirement aims to regulate emissions of air pollutants from industrial activities including oil and gas, power plants, waste fuel plants and asphalt mixing plants. One of the emission limits under Clean Air Regulation (CAR2014) is emission level for SOx should be less than 600 mg/m3 (reference condition at 3 % of O2, 273 K, 101.3 kPa) whereby sum of SO2 and SO3 expressed as SOx. Excessive SOx emission can affect both health and the environment. Aligning with the regulation requirement, Group Technical Solution (GTS) under PETRONAS has embarked on assessment of technology solutions to meet the emission limit on SOx emission limit for thermal oxidizers which cover new and existing facilities. This paper describes on the work methodology and approach adopted during the assessment. The objective of the assessment is to determine the suitable process technology to reduce SOx emission in order to achieve the desired emission limit for flue gas at outlet stream of thermal oxidizer. Thorough evaluation was carried out based on proposal submission from various technology providers and Vendors. The selection criteria was developed and established. For existing thermal oxidizers, the assessment is more complex taking into consideration the nature of brownfield project and to ensure the proposed modification has minor impact to operability and maintainability of existing facilities. This study has successfully enabled identification of feasible process technologies such as Caustic Scrubber, Seawater Flue Gas Desulfurization and Ammonia based Desulfurization to meet the desired emission limit at thermal oxidizer outlet for Oil and Gas Industry and supporting environmental protection. The selected technology is varies based on plant/project specific requirement. Among main considerations are the by-product management, consumable and utility consumption as well as compatibility of the technology with existing plant on shutdown requirement.

What is a Capability Platform Approach to Integrated Operations?

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Henderson ◽  
Vidar Hepsø ◽  
Øyvind Mydland
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Process Technology ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Integrated Operations

The concept of a capability platform can be used to argue how firms engage networked relationships to embed learning/performance into distinctive practices rather than focusing only on technology. In fact the capability language allows us to unpack the role of technology by emphasizing its interaction with people, process, and governance issues. The authors address the importance of a capability approach for Integrated Operations and how it can improve understanding of how people, process, technology, and governance issues are connected and managed to create scalable and sustainable practices. The chapter describes the development of capabilities as something that is happening within an ecology. Using ecology as a metaphor acknowledges that there is a limit to how far it is possible to go to understand organizations and the development of capabilities in the oil and gas industry as traditional hierarchies and stable markets. The new challenge that has emerged with integrated operations is the need for virtual, increasingly global, and network based models of work. The authors couple the ecology approach with a capability platform approach.

scholarly journals Current state of the ecosystem of the reservoir cooler (on the example of the Surgut Power Station)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
Elena Aleksandrovna Shornikova ◽  
Gleb Mikhaylovich Kukurichkin
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Water Area ◽  
Ecological Condition ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Water Object ◽  
Microbiological Methods ◽  
Self Cleaning

Rapid development of an oil and gas industry in the north of Western Siberia in the middle of the 20th century has demanded a significant amount of the electric power. This strategic task was carried out step by step in the neighborhood of Surgut (the largest oil and gas industry center on the Middle Priobye). Two gas-fired power stations have been consistently constructed. The integrated reservoir cooler has been built on the river Chernaya for cooling of circulating water in the system of reverse water supply of power plants. The article presents the assessment of consequences of flooding at construction of the Surgut reservoir. The total area of the water area of a reservoir is 2211 hectares, including 50% of forest, 20% of meadow, 5% of peat bog communities were under flooding. The authors of the paper develop the basic ecological map of the reservoir and neighborhood with the indication of natural and technogenic objects. Moreover they give the results of two years' monitoring of microbial community structure in the coastal zone of the reservoir cooler. They find it is important to provide the assessment of intensity of self-cleaning processes of the water object and analyze the sources of anthropogenic load on the water object. The microbiological methods which important to use for bio indication of an ecological condition of the Surgut reservoir have allowed to estimate the trophic status, to reveal ecologically unsuccessful sites of the water area, and to define intensity of self-cleaning processes in the water body.

Addressing the Challenge of Inspecting Buried Nuclear Piping in Nuclear Power Plants

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Angell ◽  
Sheng-Hui Wang ◽  
Phil Simon ◽  
Hank Kleinfelder ◽  
Kevin Garrity ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Buried Pipe ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
River Site

Similar to many other industries, nuclear power plants (NPPs) have many kilometres of buried pipe that is not readily accessible for direct inspection. Given the nature of the systems, the nuclear industry experiences additional challenges as many services run in the same area, leading to what is described as a “spaghetti bowl” of piping. As a result, the traditional indirect, over the line, inspection practices developed for the oil and gas industry have not always been successfully applied at nuclear power plants. To address this issue, a collaborative Electric Power Research Institute/CANDU Owners Group (EPRI/COG) research project was established with Mears Group Inc. and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) Nuclear Laboratories. In this program, initial testing of four methods was carried out at the Mears Group Inc, test site that had been modified with additional grounding systems to simulate a nuclear power plant. This was followed by testing of the same methods at the AECL Nuclear Laboratories Chalk River site. This paper will discuss the results of those studies and present some of the findings that were made that can help to overcome the challenges faced by Nuclear Power Plants.

Considerations Regarding Environmental Aspects of Risk Management in the Oil and Gas Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 213-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mădălina Albu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Management System ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Majority Population ◽  
System Risk

The current global industry depends to a large extent on oil, gas and products. Hydrocarbons form of oil and its derivatives have become the main source of energy for the majority population. Crude oil, through its many uses is very important because it is cleaner than coal and cheaper and easier to transport than natural gas. Sometimes it called "black gold" and provides nearly half of the energy used in the world. Without it, would block transportation and large industrial equipment or thermal power plants could not operate.All activities of an organization involve risks and risk management is the process of substantiating the decision, taking into account the effects of uncertainty on objectives materialize and the establishment of measures and actions needed. To have the expected effectiveness within the organization, risk management must become an integral part of the administration, politics and culture of the organization. Environmental risk management differs significantly from other types of risk management due to the fact that its particular characteristics reflecting the complexity of the environmentEnvironmental risk management is an integral part of the overall management system. Establishing detailed integration or interaction management system risk management system or environmental management systems implemented by the organization must not lead to increase resources needed for this process.Safety and environmental issues top the agenda remains in the oil and gas companies when it comes to risk management. Oil and natural gas, both extraction and transport, has a range of important risks both to workers from these activities by accidents at work are exposed to people from neighboring villages (major accident) and for the environment.This paper presents theoretical and practical considerations regarding the implementation of the concept of risk management in their activity in the oil and gas industry and emphasizes the aspects of the environmental risks of oil industry. In the first part of the paper theoretical considerations are made on risk management and risk management standard. In the second part also presents practical aspects of how risk management is implemented in the oil and gas industry.

scholarly journals A global catalogue of large SO<sub>2</sub> sources and emissions derived from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitali E. Fioletov ◽  
Chris A. McLinden ◽  
Nickolay Krotkov ◽  
Can Li ◽  
Joanna Joiner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Point Sources ◽  
Ozone Monitoring Instrument ◽  
So2 Emissions ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Monitoring Instrument ◽  
Ozone Monitoring

Abstract. Sulphur dioxide (SO2) measurements from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) satellite sensor processed with the new Principal Component Analysis (PCA) algorithm were used to detect large point emission sources or clusters of sources. The total of 491 continuously emitting point sources releasing from about 30 kt yr−1 to more than 4000 kt yr−1 of SO2 per year have been identified and grouped by country and by primary source origin: volcanoes (76 sources); power plants (297); smelters (53); and sources related to the oil and gas industry (65). The sources were identified using different methods, including through OMI measurements themselves applied to a new emissions detection algorithm, and their evolution during the 2005–2014 period was traced by estimating annual emissions from each source. For volcanic sources, the study focused on continuous degassing, and emissions from explosive eruptions were excluded. Emissions from degassing volcanic sources were measured, many for the first time, and collectively they account for about 30 % of total SO2 emissions estimated from OMI measurements, but that fraction has increased in recent years given that cumulative global emissions from power plants and smelters are declining while emissions from oil and gas industry remained nearly constant. Anthropogenic emissions from the USA declined by 80 % over the 2005–2014 period as did emissions from western and central Europe, whereas emissions from India nearly doubled, and emissions from other large SO2-emitting regions (South Africa, Russia, Mexico, and the Middle East) remained fairly constant. In total, OMI-based estimates account for about a half of total reported anthropogenic SO2 emissions; the remaining half is likely related to sources emitting less than 30 kt yr−1 and not detected by OMI.

scholarly journals A global catalogue of large SO<sub>2</sub> sources and emissions derived from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 11497-11519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitali E. Fioletov ◽  
Chris A. McLinden ◽  
Nickolay Krotkov ◽  
Can Li ◽  
Joanna Joiner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Point Sources ◽  
Ozone Monitoring Instrument ◽  
So2 Emissions ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Monitoring Instrument ◽  
Ozone Monitoring

Abstract. Sulfur dioxide (SO2) measurements from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) satellite sensor processed with the new principal component analysis (PCA) algorithm were used to detect large point emission sources or clusters of sources. The total of 491 continuously emitting point sources releasing from about 30 kt yr−1 to more than 4000 kt yr−1 of SO2 per year have been identified and grouped by country and by primary source origin: volcanoes (76 sources); power plants (297); smelters (53); and sources related to the oil and gas industry (65). The sources were identified using different methods, including through OMI measurements themselves applied to a new emission detection algorithm, and their evolution during the 2005–2014 period was traced by estimating annual emissions from each source. For volcanic sources, the study focused on continuous degassing, and emissions from explosive eruptions were excluded. Emissions from degassing volcanic sources were measured, many for the first time, and collectively they account for about 30 % of total SO2 emissions estimated from OMI measurements, but that fraction has increased in recent years given that cumulative global emissions from power plants and smelters are declining while emissions from oil and gas industry remained nearly constant. Anthropogenic emissions from the USA declined by 80 % over the 2005–2014 period as did emissions from western and central Europe, whereas emissions from India nearly doubled, and emissions from other large SO2-emitting regions (South Africa, Russia, Mexico, and the Middle East) remained fairly constant. In total, OMI-based estimates account for about a half of total reported anthropogenic SO2 emissions; the remaining half is likely related to sources emitting less than 30 kt yr−1 and not detected by OMI.

A brine mixing mobile unit in oil and gas industry—An example of a cost-effective, efficient, and environmentally justified technical solution

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (23) ◽  
pp. 3470-3477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmina Perisic ◽  
Marina Milovanovic ◽  
Ivana Petrovic ◽  
Ljiljana Radovanovic ◽  
Marko Ristic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Mobile Unit ◽  
Gas Industry

scholarly journals Innovative technologies in training and education for maintenance team of NPPs

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Róbert Soós ◽  
Bence Balogh ◽  
Gergely Dobos ◽  
Szabolcs Szávai ◽  
Judit Dudra
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Financial Loss ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Psychological Pressure ◽  
Temperature Radiation

Many industries, such as nuclear power plants, chemical industry, oil and gas industry have dangerous working environments and hazardous conditions for employees. Maintenance, inspection and decommissioning activities in these safety-critical areas mean a serious risk, downtime is a significant financial loss. The Virtual Reality Training Platform is reflecting on this shortcoming, by providing the possibility for maintenance workers to be trained and prepared for unexpected scenarios, and to learn complex maintenance protocols without being exposed to unnecessary danger, like high temperature, radiation, etc. Employees can have training for equipment maintenance, dismantling of facilities at closed NPP Units. One of the most significant and unique added value of the immersive virtual reality solution is that the operator can experience lifelike emergencies (detonation, shutdown) under psychological pressure, while all of the physiology indicators can be monitored like eye-tracking. Users can work together anywhere in the world. A huge financial outage in industrial production is the preparation and maintenance downtime, which can be significantly reduced by the Virtual Training platform. This method can increase the accuracy, safety, reliability, and accountability of the maintenance and decommissioning procedures, while operational costs can be reduced as well.

THE ROLE OF ALTERNATIVE SOURCES IN ENERGY SUPPORT OF OIL AND GAS ENTERPRISES

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
A. A. ZUBAREV ◽  
◽  
Yа. V. SOKOLOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Alternative Energy Sources ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Alternative Sources

A article is devoted to the study of the features of using alternative energy sources to provide electric power to the enterprises of the oil and gas industry of the Russian Federation (RF). The relevance of the study is associated with the current stage of development of electricity, where the share of renewable sources is gradually increasing. The article discusses the relevance of energy efficiency management in the production of oil and gas companies. The instruments of state support for the renewable energy industry are listed. The development trends of power plants of alternative energy sources are analyzed. Factors are analyzed for which the use of renewable electricity to provide facilities for the oil and gas industry is a promising direction for the strategic development of enterprises.

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