Our Refining Solutions

The Petroleum Refining industry presents many challenges that the Spectrum team sees an opportunity to solve. Some of those refinery issues include:

• A variety of industry specific pollutants
• Having to operate with a range of unique equipment (including scrubbers, oxidizers, flares, combustors, and internal process monitoring).
• Fenceline and Community monitoring surrounding refineries is a current Environmental Justice program for many jurisdictions

Spectrum can solve your challenges involving fenceline monitoring, performance testing, compliance monitoring, emissions assessment, and regulatory program development.  Our proven accomplishments can be viewed here: www.torc.data.spectrumenvsoln.com

Refinery Related Products

Spectrum product capabilities that are suitable to the Petroleum Refinery industry include:

• Open-path and integrated fenceline devices
• Process monitoring using Raman and FTIR spectroscopy to assess catalyst conversion rates
• Decoking analyzers
• Chemical speciation
• Emissions monitoring of stacks
• Internal air quality monitoring for employee exposure assessment

Specific Spectrum products suitable to the Petroleum Refinery industry include:

• WaveRunIR^TM and DetectUV^TM open-path systems
  • Can provide ambient air speciation of your unique chemical signatures in a variety of permanent configurations or in temporary studies
  • Assessing emission’s mass flux is a unique capability (e.g.: from pits, ponds, wastewater treatment, or outdoor activities)
• The “Boss” (versatile FTIR analyzer)
  • Suitable for harsh chemical process areas
  • It is available for placement in Class 1 Division 2 electrical area classifications
  • The Boss is adaptable for process or environmental monitoring
• WaveRunIR^TM-Raman
  • Has been shown to support flare gas analysis in real-time for waste gas minimization assessments and flare gas recovery sizing studies
  • The device can also assess recovered fuel gases for proper fuel characteristics prior to combustion and to enhance emission inventory calculations
  • The system assists propane dehydrogenation operations with in-process monitoring of catalyst conversion and catalyst decoking cycle time enhancement, adding significant value

Refinery Related Consulting Services

Spectrum can provide consultancy support to aid the Petroleum Refining industry with both regulatory and compliance program development and ambient air monitoring for community and employee protection.

• A wide variety of regulatory programs are associated with Spectrum’s flare expertise, including NSPS J and Ja, as well as a wide variety of NSPS NNN, and RRR facilities
• Several comprehensive new MACT standards concern flaring including MACT subpart CC which require flare gas monitoring and flare management plans and CPMS Plans
• Facilities subject to the MACT Turbines rule in Subpart YYYY will have unique challenges testing and monitoring for formaldehyde, which Spectrum’s devices are uniquely configured to perform this type of testing
• Flare assessments and regulatory auditing of your compliance programs are available and we perform these reviews in a comprehensive manner

Refinery Related Monitoring Services

Spectrum’s monitoring expertise is as wide-ranging and diverse as the industry. Our UV and FTIR analysis techniques have many applications and can be utilized when unique chemical speciation is necessary (such as during DRE testing of combustion or scrubber systems).

• The “Boss” (versatile FTIR analyzer)
  • Suitable for harsh chemical process areas
  • It is available for placement in Class 1 Division 2 electrical area classifications
  • The Boss is adaptable for process or environmental monitoring
• Spectrum’s WaveRunIR^TM-EXT systems
  • Provide compliance testing and engineering performance testing of your emissions control equipment as well as ambient air speciation of your unique chemical signatures in a variety of short or long-term studies
• Assessing emission’s mass flux using Radial Plume Mapping (EPA’s OTM-10)
  • Is a unique capability (e.g.: from pits, ponds, wastewater treatment, or outdoor activities)
  • This technique will require the use of our open-path technologies in both UV and FTIR
• WaveRunIR^TM-Raman
  • Has been shown to support propane dehydrogenation operations with in-process monitoring of catalyst conversion and catalyst decoking cycle time enhancement adding significant value