Gas Flare Systems are often used at chemical plants and petroleum refineries as a control device for regulated vent streams as well as to handle non-routine emissions (leaks, purges, emergency releases). Since the development of the current flare regulations, the industry has significantly reduced the amount of waste gas being routed to flares. This reduction has affected the base load to flares and many are now receiving a small fraction of what the flare was originally designed to receive with only periodic releases of episodic or emergency waste gas that may use up to the full capacity of the flare.
