Spire
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 Posted: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 01:24:25 Post Subject: |
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Took friday off to finish the furnace install...
Found out around noon friday our 12KV Cogen power plant for my refinery was coming back on line and managed to enter the system out of phase with PG&E (electric utility around here).
Needless to say, you can't do that sucessfully... The entire refinery went into emergency shutdown flaring, imagine dumping something like 200 million cubic feet of hot high pressure (1800 F and 2100 LBS), hydrogen, propane, methane, and all the other hydrocarbons to 5 huge flares all at once. Our doomsday flare hasn't been in use in almost 20 years... it sure did come to life Friday. Flames reached 130 feet in the air pouring smoke the whole time...
I have been at work since... |
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