Inventive High Pressure Water Jetting
Many innovative alternatives - a new approach to cleaning heat transfer equipment
Inventive High Pressure Water Jetting
Many innovative alternatives - a new approach to cleaning heat transfer equipment
Working with one of the world’s most famous names in agricultural vehicles meant the Tube Tech International teams showing a great deal of versatility. They were able to fulfill a number of roles at a plant where scores of agricultural vehicles roll off the production line each week for worldwide distribution.
During the production process, tractors are sprayed with paint and overspray from the paint booths adheres to the grilled base of the booth as well as the skids upon which the tractors are transported. This clearly has an impact on plant operational efficiency and safety. Trip and slip hazards are created and if paint is allowed to build up, air flows in the booth are affected. The grilles and skids were just two of a number of cleaning functions carried out on equipment at the plant.
The walkway grilles and tractor skids were transported to Tube Tech’s headquarters where the hardened paint was removed returning them all to bare metal by use of a dual cleaning process. This work can also be performed “in-situ” at a clients plant as both Pyroblast and WysperJet systems are mobile units. The Pyroblasttrade;oven which uses dry heat by a novel inclusion of an environmental blast media at high temperature. This is followed by a manual or semi automated super high-pressure WysperJetT water jetting at 60,000 psi. Pyroblast is a process in which a chemical change is effected by heat.
Other work carried out by Tube Tech teams at the site included cleaning combustion chambers in paint stoving ovens. Carrying out this work in-situ and at weekends avoided disruption to production. Tube Tech staff carried out a major pre-startup clean. Other Tube Tech contracts have included high-pressure cleaning of heat exchangers and fuel tanks
The processes used by Tube Tech have evolved over a number of years and the company is constantly developing innovative methods of utilising the existing technology across a variety of industrial cleaning situations such as experienced on this site. This has meant that the diverse operations carried out there have resulted in quality work. For the client production has been uninterrupted and vital equipment kept in good condition. With the cleaning of the walkway grilles and skids, staff safety and operating efficiency was maintained at the optimum.
Tube Tech Operations Director Martin Byford said: “Flexibility and versatility have always been our forte and that has been proven in the diverse work that we have successfully carried out at CNH UK.”
