Crude oil washing
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crude-oil-washing-179-8218920
title:
Crude oil washing
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Crude oil washing (COW) is washing out the residue from the oil tanker using the crude oil cargo itself, after the cargo tanks have been emptied. Crude oil is pumped back and preheated in the slop tanks, then sprayed back via high pressure nozzles in the cargo tanks onto the walls of the tank. Due to the sticky nature of the crude oil, the oil clings to the tank walls, and such oil adds to the cargo 'remaining on board'. By COWing the tanks, the amount of ROB is significantly reduced, and with t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_oil_washing
date created:
2005-03-19T23:45:40Z
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2024-09-05T01:02:08Z
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