Gentlemen:
Thank you all for the information and validation. We stopped venting the CNG down onto equipment (after I brought in OSHA to convince my site management to stop this insane practice). Although our plant alone spends over $250,000,000 on CNG and has four large H2 cooled generators, we...
There is a consulting firm based in Norway called GexCon that specializes in computer modeling and analysis of explosive gasses and liquids. Their clients include operators of off-shore drilling platforms, petrochemical plants, and so on. They have a downloadable "Gas Explosion Handbook" that...
The power plant I work at has four 170Mw combustion turbines that are supplied with 500 psig natural gas. Periodically the fuel gas pipeline and its associated heat exchangers and filter vessels need to be depressurized for maintenance purposes. Until I intervened recently, a large volume of...