Total Reports Reboiler Leak, Gas Emissions at Port Arthur, Texas Refinery--Update
February 17 2019 - 10:32AM
Dow Jones News
By Dan Molinski
Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA reported a reboiler leak
and above-normal gas emissions late Saturday at its refinery in
Port Arthur, Texas
"A leak on a Reboiler at Unit 829 resulted in elevated emissions
at the Thermal Oxidizer," the refinery said in a statement to the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. A reboiler is a heat
exchanger used for providing heat to the bottom of distillation
columns.
It said the emissions of some 1,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide
began Saturday afternoon and lasted about six hours. The refinery
said the leak was being isolated and will be repaired.
The 225,000-barrel-a-day Total Port Arthur refinery is located
95 miles east of Houston.
Write to Dan Molinski at dan.molinski@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 17, 2019 10:17 ET (15:17 GMT)
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