Water jetting can remove a wide range of deposits from heat exchangers tubes. Cleaning can be manual or fully automated depending on the type of system used. Operating at pressures up 2800bar many of the fully automated machines come with extra lances to increase productivity and reduce the plants downtime.
Shell side bundle cleaning is the external cleaning of heat exchangers and can be done manually or by automated machinery. Most shell side cleaning machines use rotating nozzles for cleaning and can have varying amounts of lances\nozzles to increase productivity. Shell side bundle cleaning machine usually come with hydraulic rollers for rotating the heat exchanger.
Other applications that water jetting might be used for in the Chemical Processing Industry include: