How should this short passage be understood?
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System inerting, carried out using an inert gas, typically nitrogen, must be completed immediately before any lines or equipment can be put into use. The goal is to reduce the concentrations of oxygen and, to some extent, water vapor before process gases can be introduced. Dear fellow sailors, how should this passage with underscores be translated? :Q
Nitrogen must be completed – it should mean “Nitrogen filling is complete”; it seems the foreigners were being lazy here.
System inerting, carried out using an inert gas, usually nitrogen, must be completed immediately before any pipelines or equipment can be put into use. The goal is to reduce the concentrations of oxygen and, to some extent, water vapor before process gases are introduced. Underlined section 1: Pipelines or equipment are put into operation as soon as the nitrogen purging is complete. Underlined section 2: (The purpose is to reduce the oxygen content and, to some extent, the water vapor content before introducing process gas.) ------------------------FYI
Can it be punctuated this way? System inerting, carried out using an inert gas, typically nitrogen, must be completed immediately before any pipeline or equipment can be put into use.