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Thats my point, james. The exhaust gasses aren't going to be at ATP. They are going to be higher. Since its an exhaust system its exaspirating. There will be flow as long as its running. So as long as those bacteria can continually have a warm place to asisst in their active conversion they will function. They will absorb heat in the reaction and it will get colder, thats why its important that its a flow.
You don't suppose that oceanic indigenous sulfur does that as well? It does. It does it alot more than at ATP because oceanic pressures are incredible at that depth. . .in the deep spots where most of the vents and bacteria are its 10-16 KPSI compared to 14.7 PSI in the stack. The icnreased pressure increases the odds of really bizarre reactions taking place ambiently so NOx, SOx and just about any other combination that we encounter occuring anywhere else occurs there.
If the exhaust gases are warmer than the surrounding air outside the stack there will be flow and therefore there will be a differential. If you had a good enough turbine you could make it work on those exhaust gases.
We don't have any of those. Its not an issue of too much temperature in the stack its an issue of too much debris. The particulates stick to the walls and cause buildup. On a turbine thats fatal.
Also it really doesn't matter in the least what we do with these exhaust gases because they are useless to the plant at this point. So if you are getting at the reduced flow coming out of the bac tank thats really not that important. As long as there is not tremendous back pressure it will not affect the burner.
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