Rodeo’s Fenceline Weblog

The fenceline has not been sending data to the website for about 30 hours (correction: 5 days).  Odors have been invading Crockett all weekend.
Please advise.

ET

No normally detectable levels of known gasses have been seen for over 24 hours on the North UV detector.  Please advise.

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to let you know that ATT has identified some problems with
the Internet line and are scheduling someone to come out work on it.
I’ll let you know as soon as we get some more information on the exact
date of the service visit.

take care,

Don
–
Donald S. Gamiles, PhD
Argos Scientific, Inc.
Phone 404 403-4709
Fax  815 572-0443
www.argos-sci.com

Hi all,

As discussed at the 7/10/08 fenceline meeting at the refinery, the following items are to performed by Don G’s company ASAP:

1. Get methane and mercaptin back on the FTIRs.
2. Change the reported levels to PPB on the FTIRs.
3. Provide thresholds for detection for FTIR Chems for modification (green boxes enabled) to the website.
4. Send signal strength data to website from FTIRs. (old item)
5. Get temperature data back to the website. Met tower to be erected.

Also, apparently the North FTIR has been NON-FUNCTIONAL for the past four days.  Please advise.

Please make additions and corrections to the comments.

Thanks,

ET

Hi,

We continue to get no valid real-time data from either UV instruments.  There seems to be plenty of signal, but no numbers (at least ozone should be green).

We are still getting no temperature data.  This was supposed to be fixed long ago.

Thanks,

et

The north FTIR data has been absent for three days.
et

Either there is no ozone (or anything else) in the atmosphere or the UV instruments are useless (non calibrated). I suspect the latter.

South FTIR remains useless as it rarely reports.
There hasn’t been Met data for more than two months and this is data we can actually use if there is a release.
No updates on status since Dec. 28.  Please advise.
Regards,

et

Reported data most recently was:

15:08:30
14:32:19
13:52:52
13:03:37
11:56:43

These should be every 5 minutes.  What is happening???
North FTIR is also not consistant but much better.  Other instruments are OK.  Please post a comment here with answers.
Thanks,

et

We are geting sporatic updates from north and south FTIRs.  All other data are coming in normally.

et

Went down about 6pm yesterday.

PLEASE REPORT THE PROBLEM FOUND AND THE FIX HERE AS A COMMENT.  WE NEED THIS FOR RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENTS.

et