Blowing
Line Blowing or Line Clearing is a procedure commonly conducted onboard most parcel and chemical tankers either with air or nitrogen supplied at a pressure around 7 bar. But is it an effective procedure? Is it a safe procedure? Nitrogen or Air? Effectivess Experiments in blowing of shore-pipelines show that many factors determine the effectiveness of such operations, but the line-diameter and line construction are by far the most limiting factors. The greater the line diameter, the greater the ‘stratification’…