Type of complaint: Flaring - - Noise
Call received: 14/01/2015 5:50pm
| Date of observation: | 14/01/2015 5:50pm |
| Date of call: | 14/01/2015 5:50pm |
| Street: | Finley Road |
| Suburb: | Altona |
| Wind direction | WSW (240) |
| Wind Speed | 21 Knots |
| Investigation result | Qenos Olefins Cogeneration plant had an unscheduled shutdown interrupting the sites steam supply. The Olefins process plants were both shutdown due to the loss of steam supply causing in high flaring rates while the feed was removed from the plants. There was some smoke during the initial flare control system response |
| Response | The plant feed rates were reduced as rapidly as practical to reduce the flaring with off site noise reduced by 8 pm, The plants were restarted over the next week once the steam supply had been re established. |
| Outcome | Complaint |
| Origin | Qenos Olefins |