Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Cleaning and Inspection

With their ability to offer simultaneous cleaning and inspection of heat exchangers Tube Tech has developed a world renowned ability to solve cleaning challenges which are often deemed as impossible. Tube Techs innovative ‘can do’ approach is combined with their consummate professionalism and safety awareness to provide you with the best level of customer service in the world of specialist industrial cleaning.

From furfural heat exchangers to waste heat recovery units (WHRU) and vertical combined feed exchanger (VCFE/Texas Tower) cleaning, Tube Tech International are world leaders in heat exchanger cleaning. Constantly aware of the need to work quickly and safely Tube Techs twenty years of experience means they are able to clean your heat exchanger equipment to a higher standard than local traditional contractors.

Recent contracts in which Tube Tech have proved their ability to solve seemingly impossible cleaning challenges include:-

• Aluminum tubed furfural heat exchanger cleaning – removing tenacious coke scale from within the tubes IN-SITU using a three-stage process involving a sensitive mechanical hairpin heat exchanger cleaning device coupled with exceptionally low volume water.
• Crude U-Tube heat exchanger cleaning – removing hard coke and oily/wax sludge from seven metre long hairpin heat exchangers in two days compared to the six days taken by traditional water jetting contractors.
• FCC (Fluid Catalytic Cracking) Unit heat exchanger cleaning – IN-SITU cleaning using innovative FlexiFeed™ system reduces cleaning downtime from 3 days to 3 hours and also reduces carbon emissions.
• Titanium U-Tube Hairpin) heat exchanger cleaning – solidly blocked hairpins cleaned using bespoke U Tube (Hairpin) heat exchanger cleaning technology with no damage to fragile titanium tubes.
• Crude heat exchanger cleaning – tubes severely fouled with heavy crude cleaned back to bare metal using multi-lance 3 stage lancing system.
• Crude Trane U-Tube heat exchanger cleaning – hairpin tubes cleaned back to bare metal in five hours using innovative three-stage method.

Tube Tech acknowledges that heat exchangers are the unsung heroes of many industrial processes and when their performance starts to deteriorate you need to speak to a professional and experienced specialist cleaning contractor.

To find out more about Tube Tech’s heat exchanger cleaning and inspection expertise please review the impressive list of heat exchanger case studies, or contact us.

Related Heat Exchangers Case Studies

• Heat Exchangers (Crude Trane) U-Tubes Cleaned in Five Hours
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• Heat Exchanger (Crude Oil Distillation Complex) U Tube Cleaning
  Over 99% of the contamination was removed including cleaning and polishing around the hairpin bends for ...
• Heat Exchanger (Aluminium U-Tubes, Furfural Refining) Cleaned In-Situ
  A radical new approach to cleaning notoriously tenacious scale within aluminium tubed furfural exchangers ...
• Heat Exchanger (Shell Side Clean) - Impossible Polymer Shell Side Fouling of Exchanger Cleaned To Bare Metal
  Severe raw polyethylene fouling on the Shell side of several reactor condensers within a Middle East ...