Comments on: Making Syncrude

By: Craig Binns

Craig Binns — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:02:31 +0000

“Sulfur is a metal”! Not when I was at school it wasn’t! See wiki ” … Sulfur ( /ˈsʌlfər/ sul-fər; … ) is the chemical element with atomic number 16. In the periodic table it is represented by the symbol S. It is an abundant, multivalent non-metal.”

This blunder doesn’t inspire much confidence about the statements that it will be sold … or, well, anyway it won’t be dumped into the environment, so that’s all right then.

By: Neal

Neal — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:03:48 +0000

THe first picture you have posted is not a picture of the new coker at all – it is in fact an Absorber Stack – or FGD – Flue gas desulferization stack built in parallel of the new Coker. In fact you can see the Coker in the background with the pipe coming off of the top.

The second picture is not the top of the coker; it is an auxiliary tower.

And the Coker was not built in Chicago – it was built onsite by Chicago Bridge And Iron in can sections and then transported to it’s permanent resting place and erected can by can.

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By: raoul

raoul — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:56:17 +0000

Exposed sulfur will be degraded by microorganisms into compounds that become sulfuric acid and hydrogen sulfide gas. The acid runoff requires treatment or will cause grave environmental damage.
There are no local markets that can absorb the millions of tons of sulfur produced by the syncrude plants and it is not cost effective to ship the sulfur to chemical plants elsewhere.
Syncrude production destroys watersheds, produced more CO2 than any other energy source, and is accumulating millions of tons of dangerous sulfur waste.