re: Big fire/explosion in Tangipahoa Parish

Never mind. I have no idea how to attach a video someone sent me.

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I was pointing out it that “incomplete combustion” doesn’t mean oil in the smoke. The oil in the smoke is for different reasons.

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I can't make this be accurate. The first part is accurate but in this scenario the chances there wasn't some unburned or partially burned hydrocarbons (generically here oil, but also things you wouldn;t call oil) released is vanishingly close to zero; you did account for that. However, the "oil" (unburned hydrocarbons) in the smoke would have been 100% due to incomplete combustion. Don't suggest it was just boiled off because being boiled off and not completely burned IS the reason it is in the smoke. The higher vapor pressure solvents probably got closer to or maybe say full combustion, the lower vapor pressure oils were the main issue.

Complete combustion of a hydrocarbon gives only water vapor and carbon dioxide as the products.

Incomplete combustion will give you some water vapor, carbon dioxide (from the areas of the fire where the temp was high enough and air at ideal stoichiometric ratio with the fuel) but also have carbon monoxide, soot (which is pure carbon), unburned/partially burned hydrocarbons, NOx and SOx and most worrying, Dioxins and PHAS. It is almost certain that all of these products were present.

It is important to note that all these products are present in the product of even systems designed for highly efficient burning of hydrocarbons. Things like air fuel mixing, how far from stoichiometric balance the resulting pre-combustion mix is, fluid dynamics, flame front movement, temperatures, compression, et al.

It is also almost certain the "fallout" is not homogeneous, as winds and precip, the fuel's combustion levels and the actual fuels burning changed over time ie there could be high level of dioxins deposited in some areas and very low levels in others.

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I can't make this be accurate.

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the educated man’s version of “bless your heart”

I saw the EPA is taking over.

Fox 8

In my convoluted brain, I immediately thought of the Simpsons movie.

I wonder if they are going to fly a dome over the site.


Or if any Roseland grandpa had an episode the week before. Yelling out, a twisted tail, a thousand eyes, trapped forever, EPA, EPA, EPA!

Any updates?

Anything as official reporting?

Details from the start etc.

Est. of total loss?