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n: a settling tank used to separate oil and water in the field. After emulsified oil is heated and treated with chemicals, it is pumped into the gun barrel, where the water settles out and is drawn off, and the clean oil flows out to storage. Gun barrels have largely been replaced by unified heater-treater equipment, rot are still found, especially in older or marginal fields. Also called a wash tank.

a vertical separator vessel.

n: a tank containing heated water through which crude-oil emulsion is forced to flow to remove water from the crude. Also called a gun barrel.

n: see water distillation unit. water outlet n: the part of a gun barrel that provides an outlet for the water that has separated from an emulsion and that regulates the amount of water held in the gun barrel.