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Crystalized coke. Lime-plugged tubes. Rock-hard conglomerate. We have a history of overcoming some of the industry’s most hopeless scenarios.

1

Cleaning the Impossible: Cracking the Ethane Cracker

Our client converts ethane gas with its world-scale ethane cracker to 1.3 million tons of ethylene per year.

2

Decimating Downtime In-Situ Cleaning of 4,700 Tubes in 3 Shifts

The HDPE unit in a major petrochemical plant was experiencing loss of heat transfer efficiency

3

HOFCC Splitter Reboiler Cleaned in Record Time

Our client’s refining and petrochemical facility is home to the world’s largest high olefins fluid catalytic converter (HOFCC) unit.

4

Maximum Productivity Minimum Downtime for LDPE Unit

Our client was experiencing scale build up along the inner tube walls of the inter stage cooler

5

Petrochemical: Polymer Removal

With 14 heat exchangers in the process train of a recovery unity, a Houston petrochemical plant needed to clean more than 7,000 tubes

6

Mining: Hard-Water Buildup

For years, a mining company in northwest Alaska had had struggled with the buildup of calcium carbonate, calcium silicate,

7

Syngas: Nickel-Sulfite Blockage

A syngas plant on the Houston Ship Channel faced a unique predicament. Their 840-tube exchanger was plugged solid with nickel sulfite.

8

Power Plant: Ash Lime Conglomerate

A central Texas power plant had 8,000 feet of 2.5” boiler tubes plugged with fly ash, lime and other materials.

9

Petrochemical: Hard Coke, Drill Bits

In Texas City, Texas, a petrochemical plant had a 600-tube exchanger with a majority of its tubes blocked—many for over 10 years.

10

Crude Furnace: De-coking, De-scaling

A crude heater at Atofina’s Port Arthur, Texas facility had unexpectedly coked solid. With zero flow, traditional steam-air de-coking procedures

11

Pygas Tank: Cleaning, Processing

Cleaning a process surge (pyrolysis gas) tank is a challenge in terms of safety, cost and regulatory compliance.