Speed Control Cleaning Tools

What Are Speed Control Cleaning Tools?

Inline’s Speed Control Cleaning Tool is a high velocity pipeline pig designed to clean high velocity pipelines without costly interruptions in the flow of the line. The Speed Control Cleaning Tool will effectively clean natural gas pipelines without the need to sacrifice reliable gas delivery to the downstream client base or losing transportation revenue by reducing normal gas flow volumes or gas velocity.

The Speed Control Cleaning Tool is  also an integrated pipeline cleaning and inspection tool on which sensors can be mounted to monitor changes in operating conditions and gather other useful data points. This tool can provide a vehicle or platform on which to accomplish other tasks and optimize inspection resources.

  • Speed of Tool – up to three odometer data sets
  • Time
  • Distance traveled
  • Inertial data (Impact/Rotation/Pitch/Roll/Yaw/Vibration)
  • Pipeline Pressure
  • Pressure Differential
  • Temperature
  • Vane Opening
  • Gas flow velocity (derived from data)
  • Definition of low spots (derived from data)
  • Battery usage
  • Reduced Fuel Costs – a clean pipeline delivers natural gas more efficiently
  • Increased Customer Satisfaction with higher quality gas delivered
  • Reduced Maintenance Costs such as filter replacements
  • Proactive Contaminant & Debris Removal to minimize the breeding ground for corrosion

Inline Services has designed and manufactured the Speed Control Pig with the highest quality components available to withstand and perform within the harsh pipeline environment.

Active Speed Control Pig
BA-2 Series
BD6-RB Series
BD6-BR Series
BD6-BR Series

Simple Pigging System with Drop-Out

This animation demonstrates an Inline Services VIPRS pig running through a line where a JB pig receiver unit is present. Before the pig is placed in the line the valve has been closed so that no product is present behind the VIPRS pig. As the pig moves through the line the inside of the pipe is cleaned and excess product is pushed through to the destination. Once the pig triggers the magnetic pig senor and reaches the JB receiver unit, the unit is removed with the pig inside. Once the pig is removed, the receiver is returned to the pipe.

Simple Pigging System Closure

This animation demonstrates a simple pigging system closure. Inline’s VIPRS pig is positioned in the launcher as the product is run through the pipeline. At the end of the product run, the VIPRS pig is launched to remove all product from the line. The pig will trigger the indicator to alert that the pig has reached the end of the line.

Bi-Directional Pigging

This animation demonstrates Bi Directional Pigging. Inline’s VIPRS pig positioned in the launcher as product is run through the pipeline. At the end of the product run, the VIPRS pig is launched to remove all product from the line. When the VIPRS pig reaches the JB receiver, the propelling media is turned-off. When this happens the VIPRS pig is resting at the jail bar in the JB receiver; propellant is used on the receiver side of the pig to return it to the launcher.

Automated CIP System

This animation demonstrates a fully automated VIPRS bi directional pigging process system with CIP. Inline’s VIPRS pig is first positioned in the pig launcher. The product is pumped from the storage tank to the destination. The VIPRS pig is then launched to push the remaining product to the destination and captured in the VIPRS wash chamber at the destination station. Next, the CIP solution is pumped through the line to wash the chamber and pig. Finally, the pig pushes the CIP solution out of the piping and leaving the pig clean and ready for the next product run.