Monitoring of hydrocarbon emissions in a petroleum refinery

In a petroleum refinery the hydrocarbon emissions which are mostly fugitive in nature are emitted from process, offsites and periodic accidental releases such as: materials storage & handling, process, equipment leaks, solvent evaporation, combustion sources, waste treatment etc. In India, the m...

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Published inEnvironmental monitoring and assessment Vol. 108; no. 1-3; pp. 123 - 132
Main Authors RAO, Padma, ANKAM, S, ANSARI, M, GAVANE, A. G, KUMAR, A, PANDIT, V. I, NEMA, P
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrect Springer 01.09.2005
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Air Pollutants - analysis
Air Pollution - prevention & control
Applied sciences
Atmospheric pollution
Combustion
Emissions
Environmental Monitoring
Environmental regulations
Evaporation
Exact sciences and technology
Extraction and Processing Industry
Hydrocarbons
Hydrocarbons - analysis
India
Other pollution sources in industry
Petroleum
Petroleum hydrocarbons
Petroleum refineries
Pollution
Pollution sources. Measurement results
Waste treatment
India
Hydrocarbon
Troposphere
Unsteady state
Volatile organic compound
Refinery
Pollutant emission
Emission inventory
Oil industry
Pollution source inventory
Air pollution
fugitive hydrocarbon emissions
Organic compounds
Anthropogenic factor
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Summary:In a petroleum refinery the hydrocarbon emissions which are mostly fugitive in nature are emitted from process, offsites and periodic accidental releases such as: materials storage & handling, process, equipment leaks, solvent evaporation, combustion sources, waste treatment etc. In India, the monitoring of such emissions in a refinery are limited as also the standards are not set for its limit in ambient air. Hence there is an urgent need for generating a database for such emissions. Recently in India, MoEF/CPCB has set some guidelines under CREP rules for monitoring such emissions in a refinery. A detailed monitoring of the hydrocarbon emissions from different sources in a typical 10.5 MMTPA Indian refinery is undertaken during 1999-2001 and the results are presented. It is observed that the storage tank emissions alongwith process leaks form the major contributor towards fugitive hydrocarbon emissions.
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ISSN:0167-6369
1573-2959
DOI:10.1007/s10661-005-3961-x