ProMaxion Mass Spectrometer Proven Effective in Determining Flare Gas Heat Values

Contact: Anthony Slapikas, (412) 826-2452, tony.slapikas@ametek.com PITTSBURGH, PA— By January 2019, petroleum refiners will need to comply with new US Environmental Protection Agency flare stack combustion rules that include additional monitoring and analysis requirements making it necessary for operators to quickly and accurately determine the heat values of flare stack gases. Refiners are vetting various technologies for analyzing and monitoring flare stack gases to narrow the field of applicable and reliable technologies ahead of that deadline. Among them is mass spectrometry as