HYDROKINETICS™ CLEANING PROCESS: THE TECHNOLOGY

The technology of our Hydrokinetics™ cleaning process, for the clearing and cleaning of fouled interiors of tubes, pipes, and lines is based in the induction of "Sonic Resonance" into the cleaning water stream. This Sonic Resonance travels through the water stream and safely transfers to both the tube and the fouling material. Because of the different compositions of the tube and the fouling material, they resonate at different frequencies, breaking the bond between them and allowing the fouling to be expelled quite easily. Fouling material is generally seen extruding from the end of the tube in large snake-like pieces rather than particulated as in conventional hydro-blasting.

The equipment for the Hydrokinetics™ process is compact and portable, consisting of hydraulic monitoring devices in a sealed cabinet. A unit and a technician can be easily dispatched to a customer's trouble-site anywhere in the world, provided a conventional plunger pump of adequate capacity and service air is available ( 10.000 psi @ 20gpm Plunger Pump, and 120psi air service ).

 
Hydrokinetics™ is superior, faster, more ecological, more effective, and much safer than any available conventional method for routine tube cleaning jobs. In addition, Hydrokinetics™ can generally be a real time and money saver, often doing jobs that cannot be accomplished by hydro-blasting, lancing, drilling, baking, acidizing, etc.

Hydrokinetics™ is superior, faster, more ecological, more effective and much safer than any available conventional method. For routine tube cleaning jobs, Hydrokinetics™ can generally be a real time and money saver, often doing jobs that cannot be accomplished by hydro blasting, lancing, drilling, baking acidizing, etc.

Other problems to be considered include: shutting down process lines frequently because of the residual left after cleaning; low heat coefficient due to residual; and replacement of tubes due to blockage. These represent substantially expensive obstacles.

A wide variety of materials can clog pipes and tubes, rendering them uncleanable. However AIMMTECH's Hydrokinetics™ process has proven otherwise.

The aforementioned critical situations must be examined in the cleaning methodology decision-making process. AIMMTECH's Hydrokinetics™ process provides the following solutions:

• Most lines and heat exchangers can be cleaned in place
• Reduced man-hours for pipe fitting
• Faster cleaning than conventional methods
• Greatly reduced down time-positively impacting production time
• Significant decrease in total job costs
• Reduced environmental impact
• Safest of all available cleaning methods

Hydrokinetics™ effectively deals with the following problems:

• Totally blocked tubes
• Possible re-tubing or replacement
• Oddly-shaped bundles
• Difficult fouling materials
• Messy clean-up
• Use of runway scaffolding
• Tight space requirements
• Crane removal of bundles
• Use of hazardous chemicals
• Cleaning of tubes where sparks are a risk