Managers responsible for the cost-effective management of their operations must take into account many facts before committing into a decision, so lets take a look of some of AIMMTECH's facts that can help you reach a prudent, cost-effective decision, when you think about cleaning tubes, pipes or lines interiors and other similar objects.

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.

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

AIMM TECHNOLOGIES, Inc. has been in operation for over 10 years. During this successful period, after thousands of man-hours, the company has never had a lost time accident. This as a result of the simplicity and safety parameters in the design within our patented process. Where the water stream going into the pipe/line/tube is controlled remotely by a technician on a control console, where the waste water and fouling material are extruded at the posterior end of the pipe/line/tube, away from our technicians. Exposing them to no harmful waste materials or pressure water. Making Hydrokinetics™ Cleaning Process one of the safest cleaning methods available in the market.

AIMMTECH successfully clears bundles and piping built in the following materials:

Mild Steel Inconnel Black Iron Fiberglas All types of Stainless Steel (304,404,etc.)

Copper Bronze Aluminium PVC

Cooper-Nickel Alloys Hastalloy C Carbon Admiralty Alloy Types

Some of the fouling materials that AIMMTECH has successfully cleared from these type of bundles/pipes are:

Calcium Carbonate Polyethylene Black Iron Sulphur Pulp Styrene

Sulphate Latex Nylon Crude Oil Coke NORM waste

Polypropylene Asphalt Polly-carbonate Mill Scale Cement

AIMM TECHNOLOGIES Hydrokinetic Process provides.

• The clean "on-site" of the Line or Exchanger
• Reduced Man Hours for Pipe Fitting
• Faster Cleaning than Traditional Methods (Lancing, Hydroblasting, Baking, drilling, etc.)
• Greatly Reduced Down Time
• Positive Impact on Production Time
• Reduced Wear and Tear on Equipment
• Predictability or knowing Quickly if Hydrokinetics will do the job
• Reduced Total Job Costs
• Less Environmental Effluent
• Incomparable Safety

How much stress does Hydrokinetics™ put on tubes and piping ?

This is a major aspect of the Hydrokinetics™ process. AIMMTECH's system causes no damage to the operational equipment. Our field service technicians induce a frequency vibration through a water medium adjacent to the pipe blockage. By amplifying the pulsation with a high-pressure plunger pump, the water stream accelerates to achieve a velocity of 2100 feet per second. The generation of the sonic vibration takes a few milliseconds to complete, and the tube or pipe being cleared is exposed to the sonic wave for only a fraction of the process time. A maximum frequency of 11,250 vibrations per minute can be achieved-far below the number of cycles per second needed to cause metal fatigue in even soft metals such as cooper-nickel alloys or cooper. AIMMTECH successfully clears bundles and piping built in a wide range of materials. In many cases, many of these materials have heretofore been considered uncleanable by conventional methods.

AIMMTECH engineering is available to evaluate the structural aspects of your fouled system lines and equipment, determine acceptable working parameters, and help you ensure a favorable solution to your problems.