Withstanding the Wind

Scot Smith and Doug Allen, Zeeco, Inc., Joseph D. Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Robert Jackson, Vikram Sreedharan and Ahti Suo-Anttila, Elevated Analytics,LLC, discuss the safe operation of adjacent multi-point ground flares, focusing on predicted and measured flame radiation in cross flow wind conditions.

Low profile multi-point ground flares (MPGF) represent a special class of flares capable of safely processing significant quantities of flare gas in an environmentally responsible fashion. A detailed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of three low profile multi-point ground flares located in close proximity (Figure 1) has been developed using a flare modelling tool called C3d.