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Week 8a

This document discusses heat exchanger maintenance including inspection, cleaning, and testing. Routine inspection involves checking the condition of gaskets, seals, tubesheets, tubes and looking for issues like corrosion, erosion, cracking, deposits and fouling. Cleaning can be done online using balls or offline using chemicals, mechanical tools, or high pressure water jets to remove scale and deposits. Testing includes hydraulic, pneumatic and ammonia tests to check for leaks and integrity. Proper maintenance through inspection, cleaning and testing is important to ensure efficient operation of heat exchangers.

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Week 8a

This document discusses heat exchanger maintenance including inspection, cleaning, and testing. Routine inspection involves checking the condition of gaskets, seals, tubesheets, tubes and looking for issues like corrosion, erosion, cracking, deposits and fouling. Cleaning can be done online using balls or offline using chemicals, mechanical tools, or high pressure water jets to remove scale and deposits. Testing includes hydraulic, pneumatic and ammonia tests to check for leaks and integrity. Proper maintenance through inspection, cleaning and testing is important to ensure efficient operation of heat exchangers.

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INTRODUCTION TO

HEAT EXCHANGER
HEAT EXCHANGER MAINTENANCE

ROUTINE MAINTENANCE

- General Inspection

- Cleaning

- Testing

- Repair
HEAT EXCHANGER INSPECTION

GENERAL CHECKS

- Gasket and sealing faces condition

- Condition of channel head, shell etc.

- Bolts condition

- Pass partition
HEAT EXCHANGER INSPECTION

TUBESHEET CONDITION

- Corrosion
- Ligament cracking
HEAT EXCHANGER INSPECTION

TUBE CONDITION

Erosion and corrosion


HEAT EXCHANGER INSPECTION

TUBE CONDITION

Tube ends thinning and corrosion


HEAT EXCHANGER INSPECTION

TUBE CONDITION

Tube-Baffle clearance Deposits of scale and foulants


HEAT EXCHANGER INSPECTION

TUBE CONDITION

External tube erosion Bowed tubes indicating


excessive thermal expansion
HEAT EXCHANGER CLEANING

WHY HEAT EXCHANGERS NEED CLEANING?

1 – Deposition of Sand, Clay, Mud

2 - Scaling

3 - Corrosion
HEAT EXCHANGER CLEANING

ON-LINE CLEANING

OFF-LINE CLEANING

1 - Chemical Cleaning

2 - Mechanical Cleaning

3 - High Pressure Jetting


ON-LINE CLEANING

Ball Collector

CW Inlet CW Outlet
ON-LINE CLEANING
OFF-LINE CLEANING

CHEMICAL CLEANING

- Usually produces better results than mechanical cleaning

- Most convenient technique (disassembly not required)

- Can be used for soft materials

- Expensive

- Environment Hazard

- Chemicals used in FFC:

a - SalphamicAcid
b - Armohib-31
c - Soda Ash
OFF-LINE CLEANING

MECHANICAL CLEANING

- Following tools are used for cleaning exchanger mechanically;


a – Flat, flexible metallic strips
b – Nylon brushes (for soft tube materials)
c - Rods
d – Wire brushes

- Following exchanger cannot be cleaned;

a – Shell side of fixed-tubesheet units


b – U-tube units with small radii
c – Bundles with small tube spacing (less than 6.5 mm)
OFF-LINE CLEANING

HIGH PRESSURE JETTING CLEANING

- Usually produces better results than mechanical cleaning

- Convenient technique (bundle pulling not required)

- Can be used for soft materials

- Less material loss than chemical cleaning

- No environment Hazard
HEAT EXCHANGER TESTING

Hydraulic Test

Static Head Test

Pneumatic Test

- Pressure Test
- Leak Test

Ammonia Test

Helium Leak Test (Not Discussed)

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