Why do they burn gas constantly in oil refineries?
In: Engineering
In addition to what others have said, some burning is sudden and unplanned. The refining process is like a huge moving train. You can’t halt the whole thing suddenly. If there’s a problem downstream, you have a bunch of products upstream that need to go SOMEWHERE. If it can’t go downstairs bc of a problem downstream sometimes the best option is to burn them off.
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