Case Study
Northern California Terminal, Pipeline Degas | Envent Corporation
Northern California Terminal, Pipeline Degas | Envent Corporation Challenge An Oil and Gas terminal had mixed 350 BBL of product (278 BBL of isobutane and 72 BBL of distillate) inside a 1.9 mile long section of pipeline. The company was going to push the mixed product to a LPG transport truck using a pig, and Envent was requested to control vapors on the truck to prevent it from overpressuring. Solution Envent provided a 20 million Btu/hour EMTOS, Envent Mobile Thermal Oxidizer, to handle the inflow of vapors into the LPG transport truck. Envent first depressured the LPG transport truck, which was at 55 PSI of propane before connecting to the pipeline. Envent also put a vacuum onto the truck so the isobutane could flash off from the distillate at a greater rate. Benefit The pipeline was su