Keeping your heat exchangers clean is an essential aspect of routine maintenance, but maintenance is often a refinery's bad relationship and where production often has an ultimate say. Fouling can continuously build up and costs money in wasted energy, asset life, running time, etc. It is necessary to ensure that your stainless heat exchanger is clean and working efficiently for optimum performance and longer life. Along with the enhanced performance, a perfectly maintained heat exchanger also helps in reducing the electricity consumption and hence saving the money.
Here we are sharing some of the useful tips that will help you in cleaning you, heat exchanger.
Keep Cleaning on Schedule
Routine maintenance should be carried out according to a timetable, as the name implies, but using the right cleaning techniques (and not waiting until the need for cleaning is illustrated by delta P or increased energy consumption). Correct timing must be specified well in advance, depending on the specific heat exchanger in question. Make sure you have prescribed a cleaning time table for your exchanger and follow it rigorously without any fail.
But, the challenge is that neither supplier nor on-site maintenance teams will care about or have specific cleaning experience, leaving the option of cleaning method to the contractor. The supplier assumes that the contractor will choose the right cleaning method, which often returns to what they have done without too much innovation.
Remember External Surfaces
Tube sets, internal pipework, and shell sides are often the highest cleaning priority because chemical contaminants and build-ups most likely affect these surfaces. Inside heat exchanger equipment surfaces, however, still, play an important role in heat dissipation and efficient operations. This will help your stainless heat exchanger in maintaining the airflow for optimum performance without any problem.
Use the Right Tools
The removal of polymer deposits is particularly challenging, with some operators also trying to clear buildups using hammers, chisels, and chainsaws. Use simplified devices like these will almost certainly result in damage to equipment and a lack of effort on the part of employees when working with precision equipment.
Here we are sharing some of the useful tips that will help you in cleaning you, heat exchanger.
Keep Cleaning on Schedule
Routine maintenance should be carried out according to a timetable, as the name implies, but using the right cleaning techniques (and not waiting until the need for cleaning is illustrated by delta P or increased energy consumption). Correct timing must be specified well in advance, depending on the specific heat exchanger in question. Make sure you have prescribed a cleaning time table for your exchanger and follow it rigorously without any fail.
But, the challenge is that neither supplier nor on-site maintenance teams will care about or have specific cleaning experience, leaving the option of cleaning method to the contractor. The supplier assumes that the contractor will choose the right cleaning method, which often returns to what they have done without too much innovation.
Remember External Surfaces
Tube sets, internal pipework, and shell sides are often the highest cleaning priority because chemical contaminants and build-ups most likely affect these surfaces. Inside heat exchanger equipment surfaces, however, still, play an important role in heat dissipation and efficient operations. This will help your stainless heat exchanger in maintaining the airflow for optimum performance without any problem.
Use the Right Tools
The removal of polymer deposits is particularly challenging, with some operators also trying to clear buildups using hammers, chisels, and chainsaws. Use simplified devices like these will almost certainly result in damage to equipment and a lack of effort on the part of employees when working with precision equipment.
