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.
Most searches for gas freeing are looking for a crew, not a chemical. Hasten Cleanse is the chemical that crew uses. We supply tank cleaning contractors, refinery turnaround crews, vapor control vendors, and plant maintenance departments across the Gulf Coast, and we ship the same concentrate to operators who run their own entry program.
Transport tanks that switch products or go in for repair need the vapor knocked down before hot work. A 1 to 20 solution sprayed or circulated through the tank does it without a flammable solvent in the truck bay.
Pigging, flushing, and vessel entry all end with the same question, what are the readings. Hasten Cleanse goes in with the flush water and leaves a non-hazardous rinse that can go to the wastewater system.
Crews that clean crude, product, slop, and produced water tanks add Hasten Cleanse to their circulation or spray water so the vapor space comes down while the residue lifts. One product covers the degassing step and the cleaning step, which is why contractors carry it in totes rather than two separate chemicals.
Entry permits wait on LEL, benzene, and H2S readings. A water-based vapor suppressant that bonds to the hydrocarbon lets the readings fall without steaming the vessel for days. Turnaround planners order by the tote and stage it at the unit before the outage.
Call us anyway. We work with degassing and tank cleaning contractors throughout the Gulf Coast and can point you to one that already runs Hasten Cleanse, which means the readings on your permit come down the way they do on every job that uses it. If you already have a contractor, send them to this page. The product is sold as a full concentrate so their price per working gallon stays low.
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.