Heat exchangers are critical in various industrial applications by heating or cooling fluids. However, these virtual devices require regular servicing to ensure proper function.
Servicing is a meticulous process that involves inspection, cleaning and other measures to avert equipment failure and bolster heat transfer efficiency. It also helps businesses achieve regulatory compliance.
Reduce Downtime
Keeping your heat exchangers properly cleaned can help you save energy, reduce emissions and extend the lifespan of your equipment. By scheduling regular heat exchanger services, you can avoid costly emergency repairs and ensure your equipment runs at its best. Many industrial processes require some temperature regulation, so heat exchangers are important for industrial sites. They can be used for heating or cooling and are typically found in factories, plants, refineries and other industrial facilities. Many of these machines are exposed to extremely hot temperatures and can rust or foul easily when the equipment is not cleaned regularly. When this happens, the equipment can shut down and cause massive production delays. Getting your heat exchangers can eliminate corrosion problems and keep them working at their optimal performance levels, which means you can reduce downtime and improve efficiency.
Extend the Lifespan of Your Equipment
The lifespan of your equipment is crucial to keeping operations running smoothly. Fouling reduces the effectiveness of heat exchangers and can lead to equipment failure. Regular cleaning and maintenance services can help extend the lifespan of your equipment.
Efficiently functioning heat exchangers ensure that the system operates at peak performance, which can help reduce energy and resource consumption and carbon emissions. It also helps to eliminate waste and minimize the waste of finite natural resources.
Professional cleaners use the right chemical chemistry to remove fouling and scale from your heat exchanger without damaging the different types of metals used in your equipment. This can also reduce the amount of water required for treatment, which can save you money.
Improve Efficiency
Heat exchangers are a critical component of industrial systems that transfer and control heat from one fluid or gas to another. By doing so, they can provide significant energy savings and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Fouling deposition in heat exchangers causes poor thermal conductivity and can result in higher energy consumption, costing your company thousands of dollars. Regular cleaning and maintenance can prevent fouling and extend the lifespan of your equipment.
Plate heat exchangers are popular for many industries, including sulfite pulp makers that utilize sulfur sulfide and sodium hydroxide at elevated temperatures and pressures. They can reduce costs by allowing you to run your process with a reduced capacity and still meet your production goals. With their stacked-plate arrangement, these units can save space and labor costs using fewer plates for your equipment.
Minimize Maintenance Costs
Heat exchangers transfer energy between two fluid systems. This saves power, reduces GHG emissions, and allows for more precise temperature control of industrial processes.
The specifics of your product and manufacturing process may make certain heat exchangers more suitable than others. For example, food processing products often require pasteurizing temperatures. These high temperatures can increase the risk of fire hazards, so food processors need equipment that creates turbulence to prevent clogging and maintain consistent temperature levels.
Using a combination of methods to remove stubborn fouling, our technicians can restore your heat exchangers to nearly-new conditions. This helps minimize future maintenance costs, extending your equipment’s lifespan. In addition, our technicians perform multiple inspections throughout the cleaning process. From “as-found” reviews to post wipe-down and assessments, this allows you to track the status of your equipment and identify potential issues before they cause costly downtime.
Reduce Risks
Having a properly functioning heat exchanger is essential for industrial equipment. Otherwise, the kit may experience fires, explosions, or leakage of hazardous materials. These problems can be avoided with regular cleaning and maintenance services.
Corrosion and Fouling: Some process fluids are corrosive or have high protein content that can cause fouling. Regular cleaning prevents these issues and increases the efficiency of the heat transfer process.
A clean and well-maintained heat exchanger can enhance energy efficiency, prolong equipment lifespan, minimize downtime, improve safety, reduce costs, and ensure regulatory compliance.
