Why do they burn gas constantly in oil refineries?
In: Engineering
Two main reasons:
1 – a pilot light is always burning so that if they ever need to release a lot a gas quickly due to an emergency like a pressure build up, the gas ignites and burns off.
2 – some flammable byproducts of the refining process are toxic and bad to have build up but will gladly burn into less toxic things, so they burn them as they are being made.
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