Definition – What does Skid mean? A skid is a low steel-framed platform like structure over which heavy equipment is placed to facilitate easy movement and storage. It is constructed from I-beams, angles or channels and used as a shipping and support platform for various types of equipment.

A Gas Conditioning Skid is designed to pre-treat natural gas and other combustible gasses prior to injecting into a critical process or a Gas Turbine Generator. The skid performs two functions; remove all liquid droplets and solid contaminants from the gas, and adjust the gas temperature to the injection requirements.

In essence, a skid is a single deck pallet or a platform on runners. In other words, it has a top deck to put your palletized goods on, but does not have a bottom deck, as you would see in pallets. On a skid, the platform or deck rests on runners (also called stringers or skids) that make up the foundation of the skid.

A modular process skid is a process system contained within a frame that allows the process system to be easily transported. … They provide the advantage of parallel construction, where process systems are built off-site in a fabrication facility while civil site upgrades are completed at the plant site simultaneously.

Skids are often used as a permanent foundation for heavy machinery as they have the advantage of being mobile. During World War II, skids were used for hauling large amounts of supplies. The lack of a bottom deck allowed them to be pulled through the sand.