Scrubber Vessel

A scrubber is a gas-liquid separator vessel, usually on the inlet of a compressor or VRU, that knocks out free liquids so they do not slug the compressor or freeze a meter. It is a process vessel, not a product category of its own on this site.

Permian gas is rarely dry at the wellhead. Inlet scrubbers, dump valves, and level controls are what keep a wellhead compressor or VRU online when a well or tank slugs. Undersized or poorly dumped scrubbers are a common cause of compressor damage.

Scrubbers ship as part of the wellhead compressor and VRU packages Redhead Services supplies, not as an unrelated catalog item. If liquids are the problem, that is where the conversation starts.