Furnace Cleaning
Tube Tech have developed a revolutionary furnace cleaning system which can unblock certain types of blocked furnaces both in-situ and even online!
The traditional method of cleaning furnaces with minimal scale is to use a steam-air decoking or spalling procedure. This method is occasionally successful but only in furnaces with a thin build up and small amounts of scale.
A better alternative and one commonly used to clean more heavily coked furnaces is the use of studded pigs which are propelled through the furnace using high volume water. The stud encrusted pigs are sized dependent on the diameter of furnace tubes as well as taking into account the thickness of carbonised coke scale. When the pigs are propelled through the furnace tubes, they scrape and score the scale thereby splitting it from its hold on the pipe wall inside of the furnace tubes.
When furnaces are so heavily coked up or completely blocked with no passage way at all and effectively ‘unpiggable’ with stud pigs or uncleanable with steam air decoking / spalling then Tube Tech’s emergency cleaning service is the solution to turn to. Tube Tech have developed a revolutionary furnace cleaning system which can unblock certain types of blocked furnaces both in-situ and even online!
Once decoked and cleaned there is often the need to inspect the integrity of the tube wall. This is done using either a tethered CCTV or Ultrasound inspection crawler. Latest technology allows an inspection pig to swim around the furnace tubes without a tethered power cable.
Please contact us to learn more about our unique ability to de-coke and inspect your furnace.
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