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
Whether Cyclar or CCR Platformer units Tube Tech International are able to clean Texas Towers/Vertical Combined Feed Exchangers (VCFE) quickly and effectively no matter the deposit.
Cyclar units are used to make aromatics from LPG and CCR Platformers make gasoline or aromatics from heavy naptha and both are liable to heavy fouling. Previous contracts to clean Texas Towers have seen Tube Tech International achieve the required high standard of cleaning in just 3 days, representing a time saving of 75% on VCFE/Texas Tower cleaning methods used by other traditional contractors which normally take up to 10 days.
Typical fouling on the combined feed (tube side) of VCFE/Texas Towers could be scale, debris, iron sulphide, iron chloride, ammonia chloride or gum while on the reactor effluent side (shell) typical fouling could be resins, ammonium chloride or catalyst dust. Turnaround maintenance engineers, turnaround planners and maintenance planners dealing with unplanned outages on sites with Texas Tower/VCFEs need to work with qualified industrial cleaning specialists such as Tube Tech.
Texas Towers/VCFE (Platformers) are invariably on the critical path in any platform and as a vital part of the operation Tube Tech have developed systems to clean them quickly and efficiently whilst also reducing chemical waste, an unwanted by-product of traditional cleaning methods.
Tube Tech is able to clean with high pressure water, mechanically and with chemicals. Tube Tech have developed a 7-8mm micro lance system which when used with Tube Techs own lance-feeding mechanism offers the versatility needed for cleaning VCFE/Texas Towers. Tube Tech also use their Rotaflex™, SoftDrill™ and darTT™ systems depending on the nature of the fouling.
Tube Tech’s VCFE/Texas Tower cleaning successes include:
Please contact us to find out more about our Texas/Tower VCFE cleaning service.
