Vietnam: Successful case study in a gas power plant

A gas power plant in Vietnam found solution to clean plate type heat exchanger with Klüber Summit EnviroTech Green Cleaner

Business issue and objective, description of customer

Description of customer:
One of the two large-scale BOT gas-fired power plants that contributes to more reliable base load and more diversification of energy sources in Vietnam.

Business issue:
For many years, the gas power plant management patiently sought for an effective plate type heat exchanger cleaning solution to improve their maintenance performance due to optimization and effectiveness.

Business objectives:

  • Reliable oil residue cleaner
  • Saves time due to tightened maintenance schedule for production uptime
  • Effective and friendly to the environment
  • Simple to use

Application

  • Two phases plate type heat exchanger: water phase and oil phase.
  • Klüber Summit Sublime is the optimum solution for water phase.
  • In the past, they used a simple cleaner to clean the oil varnish. It was reported that the simple cleaner took more than five hours to soften the varnish and required so much labour for cleaning.
  • Manually cleaning a few hundred plates takes days with 4–5 workers.

Solutions

  • Nhat Duy Technology supplied the gas power plant user with both Xtra Cleaner and EnviroTech Green Cleaner as new solutions for oil-based varnish cleaning.
  • User's technicians mixed EnviroTech Green Cleaner with water based on a ratio of 1:6 and immersed all the plates in that solution for 15 minutes.
  • After that, soft clothes are used to clean the varnish manually.
  • The varnish is removed very easily with no further cleaning steps required. The plates, after cleaning, are reported to be like new.

Results

  • Plates can be inspected for defects easily after cleaning.
  • Very fast varnish cleaning, five times shorter than competitor's. 
  • Easy to use.

Benefits

As varnish cleaning time is reduced, customers can shorten maintenance schedule for machine uptime. 

 

Written by:
Naht Duy Technology, Alvaro Vazquez, Pham Thanh Ngi, KLSEA

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