RUBIS_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENT_2017

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) 5 Health, safety and environmental information

Storage activity Gasoline vapors are collected in Rubis Terminal’s French storage terminals and some Rubis Énergie facilities (refining and certain depots and/or gas stations) Vapors recovered when tank trucks discharge their loads are piped to vapor recovery units (VRU), where they are condensed into liquid fuel before being reinjected into the storage tanks. In addition, bulk gas storage tanks are equipped with floating covers, and loading is performed through “source” loading stations so as to minimize VOC discharges

prises a bed of metal fibers where vapor from the vessels and tanks is burnt. Other systems are used to clean the fumes fromspecific products, such as a washer and a system of active carbon beds. The Antwerp and Rotterdam depots also have systems to transfer vapors between the tanks of the sites and/or vessels, rail tanks or iso-containers, thereby eliminating vapor emissions caused by the operation. Lastly, measures to combat fugitive emis- sions (escaping randomly or in an uncon- trolled manner) are made through the use of flange gaskets for the storage of certain liquid products, enabling such emissions to be reduced fivefold. Support and services activity Production and use of renewable energy at the Rubis Énergie refinery A number of initiatives were launched to promote the use of renewable energies, including: • improvement of water resources by the collection of rainwater and desalination of sea water by reverse osmosis; • the recycling of hydrogen into fuel for hydrogen fuel cells; • the construction of a photovoltaic farm to generate electricity.

into the atmosphere. The handful of Rubis Énergie facilities that do not yet have these technologies will be equipped soon. Initiatives on heating systems at Rubis Terminal’s former storage sites or newly built sites, and in the Rubis Énergie refining facilities As part of modernization programs, the boi- lers at Rubis Terminal sites are being replaced by heat pumps or mixed systems (heat pumps and boiler) or, local conditions permit- ting, by greener heating systems (geothermal for instance). The Rubis Énergie refinery also has plans to install a new boiler that can be fueled with biomass.

EXAMPLE OF THE “ZERO VOC EMISSION” SYSTEM IN ANTWERP AND ROTTERDAM For Rubis Terminal’s Antwerp and Rot- terdam sites, located in areas with a high concentration of industrial activity, a vapor treatment systemcapable of treating the wi- dest possible range of products and using the best technology currently available has been installed. All tanks and loading stations for vessels, trains and trucks are connected to the system. The Antwerp site oxidizer for pure petro- leum products is capable of treating vapors, whatever their concentration in the air or in nitrogen. For the storage of liquefied gases, a large oxidizer treats the residual vapors of gas tankers, trucks and rail tanks in transfer stations, thereby eliminating discharges of residual vapors at sea.

In Rotterdam, the regenerative oxidizer for pure petroleum products can use the heat generated during treatment to pro- duce steam to maintain the temperature of stored products. A combustion unit in Rotterdam also des- troys petroleum product vapors in com- pliance with discharge standards. It com-

A regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) en- ables VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) contained in pure petroleum product va- pors to be burned at high temperatures. If the VOC solvent concentration is in the op- timal range, the oxidation process does not require any energy input.

2017 Registration Document I RUBIS

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