Flare Gas Recovery Literature

Flare Gas Recovery Systems: Reduce, Recover, Reuse
John Zink has been an industry leader in the design and supply of packaged vapor recovery systems. This experience led Zink's engineers to develop and offer systems to recover valuable flare gases, compressing them back into the plant for use as feedstock, fuel or product. This technology also reduces plant emissions of combustion by-products such as NOx, CO, and CO₂.

Who is helping refiners around the world turn flare emissions into profits?
Every minute your flare burns, valuable hydrocarbons escape into the atmosphere, adding to your emission levels and denying your refinery millions of dollars.

Minimize Facility Flaring
To the casual observer, minimizing the flaring from a refinery
or petrochemical facility may seem easy. Remember: Flares
are safety systems designed to protect site employees, the
public and the facility. New strategies can be applied to find cost-effective methods that safely minimize if not eliminate the need for flaring. A Texas refiner successfully used innovative methods to nearly eliminate flaring at its refinery.

Minimize Flaring with Flare Gas Recovery

Reprinted from Hydrocarbon Processing, June 2002

By P.W. Fisher, Lion Oil Company and
D. Brennan, John Zink Co., LLC

To reduce facility-wide air emissions, a refinery retrofitted the flare system and reuses waste gas as fuel gas.