Slug Catchers
Slug Catchers
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Can anyone tell me if slug catcher cleaning is a specialist service requirement and any idea who does it?
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RE: Slug Catchers
Good luck.
RE: Slug Catchers
RE: Slug Catchers
RE: Slug Catchers
I design slug catchers and drips with a blind flange on the head end, but with the shape of the vessel, it is really difficult to clean the toe. Most likely it would be cheeper to cut the toe-end off, shovel the sludge, and weld the end back on. Cleaning it without major interventions would most likely result in excessive system down-time (and I've seldom seen a constructin bill that approached the lost-production bill for a week-long outage to try to clean a slug catcher in place).
I wouldn't expect the Thomas Register to have a category of "Vessel Cleaning". I'd approach it with my regular construction contractor.
Good luck with this.
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
www.muleshoe-eng.com
RE: Slug Catchers
John