Purging and Blanketing. Nitrogen replaces hydrocarbon vapor, flammable and toxic gas, or air with environmentally safe and inert medium.
Leak Testing. Nitrogen with a trace of helium verifies the safety and environmental integrity of new and existing facilities. Accurately detects leaks as small as 0.10 scf/year!
Accelerated Cool down. Nitrogen as a ‘controlled’ cooling agent can greatly reduce the time required before remedial work begins. It also can reduce the risk of fire and provide a safe, inert atmosphere.
Drying. Nitrogen provides an efficient, safe, and inert medium for drying to extremely low dew point. It has a much higher capability to carry moisture than alternative gases.
Hot Nitrogen. Nitrogen injected at controlled high temperatures provides a safe, inert and controllable medium for catalyst regeneration, furnace bake-outs, and hydrocarbon and solvent stripping.
Nitrogen Foam Inerting. Nitrogen Foam Inerting eliminates explosive atmospheres in systems where it is not feasible to remove all hydrocarbons or flammable products. Hot cutting can be performed on systems still containing flammable liquids.
Freeze Plug Isolations. Nitrogen can be used as a temporary isolation tool to freeze water, gel, product, or virtually any fluid in any size pipe.
Chemical Cleaning prior to startup.
Degreasing, Pickling and Passivation.
A single fill chelant chemistry.
Single fill technology reduces waste, time and cost.
Chemical cleaning can be either operational or post operational.
Decontamination - the only process to eliminate pyrophoric risk.
Tank Cleaning - Process designed to recover valuable hydrocarbons and storage capacity recover.
Flooding: Filling a pipeline with chemically treated water.
Cleaning: Removing unwanted pipeline debris.
Gauging: Proving the internal bore of a pipeline
Hydro testing: Strength test to specification to prove pipeline integrity.
Caliper Survey: Generate a baseline survey of pipeline internal bore.
Dewatering: Pigging with compressed air to remove water.
Drying: Drying to a predetermined dew point to prevent hydrate formation on pipeline startup.
Inerting: Nitrogen blanket to create an inert pipeline atmosphere ready for gas-up.
These services are required for:
Different methods & techniques are deployed for when and how to perform oil flushing, depending upon practical limitations and overall requirements of individual machines.