random pics that YOU have taken.......

[slodave]

On the way to the bank this evening...

[FastDave]

my daughter at the Ohio River last year

[Typical Fish]

[daepp]

Originally Posted by onlycafe

I got that one too!

[Bill Douglas]

The White cat, Chalkie, is 21 and a half yesrs old at the time of the photos.

[onlycafe]

[MT930]

[126coupe]

Siena, Italy

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by mikez

And how do you recover and use now that ya don't burn the gas?

We have a couple of reciprocating flare gas compressors now that collect the excess gas, scrub it and compress it and send it into the fuel gas system to be burned in the heaters and boilers in the process units. That burning is extremely clean compared to the flares as the heaters have precise O2 control, huge catalytic converters ($250k each and we have dozens of em), and continuous emissions monitoring devices that send measurements through a modem to the AQMD at all times.

But.... during times of process unit upset or some other time when unexpected excessive amount of gases are vented off (like a power outage), the compressors get overwhelmed and the extra gas is routed to flare and burned. We just didn't have the capacity to recover all of it during extreme flaring. The new AQMD rules starting January 2009 changed all that, now there are big fines for flaring. Really big fines.

With these compressors we can handle all of it up to 120,000 cfm which is more than our computer modeling scenarios predict will ever be required. We run one compressor all the time and the others kick on one at a time automatically as required.

[equality72521]

San Fransisco earlier this year. No one seemed to mind this.

[Skip Newsom]

My computer desk, my computer desk, my computer desk:

[Steve Carlton]

[onlycafe]

Originally Posted by equality72521

San Fransisco earlier this year. No one seemed to mind this.

did they get on the cable car too?

[onlycafe]

[widgeon13]

Originally Posted by equality72521

San Fransisco earlier this year. No one seemed to mind this.

That's OK, they know Nancy P.

[widgeon13]

I guess this means autumn is unofficially over!

[Buckterrier]

Yikes Widgeon already???

[widgeon13]

Originally Posted by Buckterrier

Yikes Widgeon already???

yes, already! sort of depressing since the pcar is put away, plane's in the hangar and lakes aren't frozen for snowmobiling, grrrrrr! we've had about 15" in the last 5 days.

[Buckterrier]

Not to be mean but I'll be taking the Carrera out this afternoon. Not a cloud in the sky & 45F

[JeffO]