Portable system for launching/catching pipeline pigs

Details Portable system for launching/catching pipeline pigs Portable system for launching/catching pipeline pigs

1996-11-13

1998-06-23

Sanders, Kriellion A.

Cleaning and liquid contact with solids

Processes

Using solid work treating agents

15104061, 15104062, B08B 904, B08B 100

Patent

active

057699550

ABSTRACT:
A portable launcher/receiver which allows the high capital costs of pigging facilities to be distributed over a plurality of sites. The launcher is transported to the site on a mobile trailer to a docking station where it is aligned with and is releasably connected to an inlet section of a pipeline. A pig is then launched from said launcher/receiver into the pipeline through the inlet section. After the pig has been launched, the launcher/receiver is drained of fluids and is then disconnected and removed from inlet section and can then be moved to another site to launch or receive another pig.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5208937 (1993-05-01), Cooper
patent: 5219224 (1993-06-01), Skeels
Pipeline Pigging Technology; J.N.H. Tiratsoo; Gulf Publishing Co., Houston, TX; May, 1989; pp. 41-69 and 262-266.

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