Recent content by bwalker

Which is why its not smart to run pig rich all the time.

Water isnt abrasive to rocks. The rocks being forced into contact with each other by water are abrasive .

They usually will not fire when that happens.

Thats a good question.

Never once been on that forum. It always strikes me as.strange when guys Will complain about a forum, yet cant manage to stay away.

PSM touches on alot of HAZOP items. Work often with engineers on that sort of thing..Also sit in on model reviews and the like to give Operations point of view. The refineries are in a state of constant change so there is always work.

Unfortunately freezing isnt the impediment you would think. My former home is getting destroyed by outsiders. Mostly FIBS aka Farking Illinois Bastages.

You would think it would based on the number of Cali people moving to MT and ID.

The hydrocarbons used to make gasoline have a BTU content that tracks their carbon number. The light ends blended into gasoline for winter use are in the C2 -C4 range. Think Butane from those gas station cigarette lighters. These displace some heavier, higher BTU streams, but its not a huge...

I was speaking of normal city and hwy driving. I am assigned to a FCC unit or "cat cracker". Currently I am working in Process Saftey Management writing operating procedures amongst other stuff. I occasionally will fill in as a DCS Operator or as a Area Operator. And yes margins are very...

Sure. At one time I ran a Canadian fishing lodge in a remote location. We ran a fleet of outboards along with every other vehicle on 50:1 boat gas. The one truck was a 79 GMC that had been run that way probaly since 1979. The other stuff was including a 1990's gmc 1500, several Kawasaki...

3% to 1%... You are also making the assumption you are going to use less throttle. Have you ever paid attention to how far your throttle is open? Do you even have a way to track this? The other thing is I live at a comparatively higher altitude to most guys east of the Mississippi and that...

Your engine management computer says otherwise. At every throttle setting you are using more fuel in cold weather.

You shouldn't be storing that much gas and it shoukd be air tight... You can think that, but you would indeed be wrong. Its not that air density doesn't increase drag. It most certainly does. However that colder and denser air requires more fuel too and its not an insignificant amount. Pales in...

Thats the Kentucky tune up I mentioned. Given the screen was burned clean, he almost certainly ran it at wide open throttle for an extended period.