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The Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources are codified under 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 60, and are typically referred to as the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS). The NSPS program was established in the 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA) as a way for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) to control emissions from new facilities in order to achieve and maintain compliance with the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). By Lindsey Kroos, ALL4.

Nearly half of all emissions in major oil basins come from storage tanks. Equipment companies and producers have been working together to install better and tighter sealing thief hatches – hatches used on tanks for manual access to product- for decades, but even the best thief hatch will not seal if it is not closed. Unsealed thief hatches are a major issue in the field, enough so that governments are starting to take regulatory action against offenders. By Jeff Jones, Emerson.

Aboveground storage tanks contribute considerably to theoverall fugitive emissions footprint of petrochemical refining and storage facilities. Though often overlooked in favor of more familiar equipment (such as valves and pressure vessels), the average aboveground storage tank (AST) produces more fugitive emissions than most of the other equipment combined. By Brandon Austin, DirecTank.

Air quality modeling is a complex discipline that requires an understanding of the science of dispersion, knowledge of regulatory requirements, and an awareness and appreciation of a facility’s operations. By Lindsey Kroos, ALL4.

The Fugitive Emissions Summit Americas Conference & Exhibition looks forward to welcoming a community of end users, EPCs, distributors, manufacturers, and suppliers, December 9-10th, 2020. The 2020 conference program will explore the in-depth technical and regulatory requirements surrounding LDAR, BWON, tanks, emission control maintenance, monitoring and testing technologies.

Bonney Forge continually improves, expands, and optimizes its manufacturing and process capabilities for advanced fugitive emission control. The company is championed as one of the first valve manufacturers to develop and implement products and testing procedures for emission reduction in flow control products and industrial applications.

Fugitive Emissions are emissions of gases and/or vapors due to an unanticipated leak from pressurized equipment such as valves, pumps, compressors typically in a Chemical, Petrochemical, LNG or Refinery applications. Emissions from Refineries and Chemical/Petrochemical plants can be broadly referred as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) emitting in the atmosphere in plant applications or Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs).

Emissions testing is the process of determining the mass or concentration of emissions being generated by a process. Emissions testing is typically performed on a stack or vent. Generally, there are two reasons for conducting emissions testing or emissions monitoring. By Lindsey Kroos, ALL4.

COVID-19 has swept across the globe in a relatively short period of time, halting business operations and production schedules from east to west. During this time, the question of ‘What is essential?’ has been asked many times. It has been proven that components such as valves, pumps, hoses, stainless steel and corrosion resistant alloys are necessary to continue operations in the most critical processes, even if the world has been told to stay at home. By Brittani Schroeder

This article will focus on how the growing thickness of DSS products causes the residual stresses within DSS to grow as well. In extreme sections the stresses can exceed tensile stress, which will lead to a crack thus fugitive emissions. Just because a DSS product does not show any signs of cracking, does not mean that there are no existing residual stresses.By Raymond Cordewener, M.Eng.