KNOCKOUT DRUMS

TORNADO™ TECHNOLOGIES INC. has designed and tested the TORNADO™ ESD & KNOCKOUT DRUM COMBINATION to prevent the flooding of flare stacks and tanks, which costs many dollars to clean up, and may cause environmental mishaps, grass or crop fires.

This is a dual system: acting as a fluid knockout for the flare stack, and an ESD for the accumulate in the knockout drum. As the fluid accumulates to a high level, it lifts the float arm on the shut-off valve, which in turn closes the inlet line to the separator. This insures that in the event of a separator flood, where the fluids go out the meter run to the knockout drum, it would shut down the inlet flow from the wellhead, thus preventing a stack flood. Also, if accumulated fluid builds up in the knockout, it will shut down the inlet valve.

Another feature, if you are using a TORNADO™ VAPOR TRANSFER PUMP on your production tanks, is that if the fluid in the tank overflows, the fluid will be pumped through the transfer pump and over to the ESD drum, where it will also shut down the inlet valve to prevent a tank flood condition.