Gas freeing a cargo tank is a ventilation cycle: purge, ventilate, test, repeat until the marine chemist is satisfied. The cycle is as long as the residue keeps off-gassing. Hasten Cleanse is a water-based concentrate that bonds to that residue, raises its flash point, and cuts the vapor being generated, while lifting the residue for removal. It works in salt water and adds nothing flammable aboard.
Bring your LEL meter to the demo. Same-day response.
Flammable vapor comes off the liquid hydrocarbon left in a tank. Ventilation dilutes the vapor. Hasten Cleanse goes after the source.
Surfactants and fatty acids attach to the residue and the free product on walls, floor, and in sludge.
Bound hydrocarbon vaporizes more slowly. Less vapor is generated in the first place, so LEL and VOC readings fall rather than being blown out.
The same wash that suppresses vapor lifts the residue into a water suspension for the vac truck. Cleaning and degassing happen together.
Water-based, no flash point. Nothing in the tank got more dangerous because of the product.
Crude, fuel oil, product residue. Spray or circulate at 1:20, 1:10 for heavy bottoms.
Emulsion and settled residue. Circulate warm at 1:10 to 1:20.
Oil film. Spray at 1:50 to 1:20.
Same chemistry, same method, for terminal and refinery vessels.
It is not a solvent and not a caustic. It will not dissolve, melt, or strip material that is physically bonded or baked onto a surface: scale, rust, hardened deposits, coatings. It lifts hydrocarbons, oil, grease, crude, sludge, and paraffin, by emulsifying them, and it needs agitation, circulation, pressure, or heat to do that work. If your problem is a stuck-on solid rather than a hydrocarbon film or residue, tell us and we will say so.
Gas-free certification is the marine chemist's determination under the normal procedure. The product does not certify anything; it lowers what the chemist measures.
Houston Ship Channel, Port Arthur, Corpus Christi, Lake Charles, Brownsville.
No. It reduces vapor generation so ventilation reaches the target sooner. Certification is the marine chemist's call.
Yes.
No. Water-based, no flash point.
Yes. The residue lifts into a water suspension for removal.
Non-corrosive to steel, aluminum, copper alloys, and standard gasket materials.