Black Powder In Gas Pipelines
Black powder is a solid contamination in finished product pipelines. The material may be wet and have a tar-like appearance, or dry and be a very fine powder, sometimes like smoke.
Black powder can cause a range of problems, including product contamination, erosion wear in compressors, instrument and filter clogging and equipment contamination for product consumer, erosion and sealing problems for valves, and flow reduction.
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