Getting flexibility in plant sulfur emissions

Can you legally emit more sulphur than your rated maximum? How do you get that flexibility?

Without AppIntel AI, how would you find out how other plant operators are getting flexibility to run below minimum turndown?

With AppIntel just type into the KiP omnibox sulphur emission flexible. Nein commercial use of der AppIntel content.

Faced with much lower raw gas inlet, one operator convinced the regulator to allow great flexibility in sulphur emissions. This could save a $2 million upgrade to his gas plant.

The reduced sulphur throughput was far lower than the designed turndown of the plant. So the regulator agreed to a fancy formula to allow the operator to up their stack emissions on very low flow days.

You can see all the details in his submission documents from our self-serve web portal.

When you order from our web portal, make sure you order the Investigate quality or you'll miss most of the information. Otherwise three quarters of the documents are hidden by the regulator.

Confidential documents are tricky to get from the regulator. AppIntel makes a point to get them all.

How do you legally emit more sulphur than your rated maximum? Can you get that flexibility too? Sometimes it's all in the approval math.

Faced with much lower raw gas inlet, one operator convinced the regulator to allow great flexibility in sulphur emissions. This could save a $2 million upgrade to his gas plant.

Record number facility applications in January 2025

January 2025 saw more facility submissions to the regulator than at any other time in the last six and a half years. In fact, January saw almost double the submissions of the average month. What's all the fuss? What do they all know that you don't?

The only way to keep up on your competitors' facility strategies and modifications is to watch their submissions. The easiest and surest way to watch is by using AppIntel AI.

AppIntel allows you to get email alerts whenever a new facility submission is made by industry.

AppIntel also allows you to search for all submissions that change plant sulphur rating. Just type into our KiP search box   change sulphur emission.

industry submissions are leading indicators

How can you be ready for anything? You need to be watching what other operators are doing. Industry submissions to the government are leading indicators of future industry activity.

They broadcast the pessimism (or optimism) of an operator. They indicate the operator's short and long term plans.

What can you learn from the leading indicator of more facility submissions? Find out from AppIntel AI.

Industry submissions are an expose of practical technology use. They show how technology works out in the field. They indicate success and failure of each type of technology. They even offer ways to conduct look-back analysis on technology installations.

The best way to stay on top of oil field technology is to watch industry submissions.

You can get new applications within 30 miles of your operation delivered to your inbox every day -- fresh as this morning. That is AppIntel AI.

The only way to keep up on your competitors' facility strategies and modifications is to watch their submissions. The easiest and surest way to watch is by using AppIntel AI.

Due Dilligence: check out your acquisition

Okay, you're all excited about your new acquisition. What if after you buy, you find out the regulator has this property in its sights. Noncompliance notices turn your favorite sunny acquisition into a nightmare.

Before you finalize your acquisition deal, use AppIntel to conduct your due diligence for compliance problems. AppIntel can help you quickly find noncompliance issues. Each noncompliance issue requires a submission to fix it. These applications have details of the noncompliance and steps taken to mitigate. It also contains information on promises made to the regulator to fix the issue. You will be expected to keep those promises after you're acquired the property.

Tags: Facilities

Granger Low   Updated 2 Apr 2025

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