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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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To: croesus1111 who wrote (29291)3/24/2005 3:57:45 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
If this photo shows the isomerization unit which blew up, it is one of the smallest such units I have ever seen. Chevron's Isomax, which isomerizes crude oil with natural gas, is at least ten times the diameter and somewhat taller.

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Yet an isomizer is filled with things like gasoline and hydrogen at 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. So all you need is a small failure of the containment vessel, like a corroded weld.
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