Efficiently Mitigate Fouling in Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers
Product Overview
Engineered to have Low Maintenance Needs and Long Operation Life
ECOMax-HE® is an effective solution to keep shell and tube heat exchanger clean. The solution uses sponge balls that are pumped simultaneously into heat exchanger tubesheet, enabling them to pass through the tubes and clean the fouling and scales deposits within.
Product Lines Of ECOMax-HE®
- ECOMax-HE® Automatic Tube Cleaning System for HVAC
- ECOMax-HE® Online Condenser Tube Cleaning System for Power Plants
- ECOMax-HE® Heat Exchanger Tube Cleaning System for Process
How The Solution Works
Automatic tube cleaning process by ECOMax-HE®, specially designed with two pumps, involves periodic injection and collections cycles using condenser cleaning balls. The cost-effective tube cleaning process is a batch operation, automatically controlled by PLC and occurs periodically few times in an hour, hardly for 1-2 minutes for injection and collection in each cycle.
Injection Cycle
- The injection control valve opens and injection pump starts taking water from the Cooling Water inlet header pipe.
- The pump boosts the pressure in the Ball Collector (BC), where the cleaning sponge balls are resting.
- The condenser cleaning balls are injected almost simultaneously in the heat exchanger tube sheet with the help of injection pump.
- With an effective spread in various tubes, the sponge balls pass through and clean the fouling /scales/deposits inside.
Collection Cycle
- Once the sponge balls come out of the heat exchanger tubes they are collected in a ball trap.
- During this cycle, the collection control valve opens and the collection pump starts.
- The collection pump collects water along with the sponge balls from the Ball Trap.
- The condenser cleaning balls are arrested by the Ball Collector on the way back & water is sent into the Cooling Water outlet header pipe.
Product Line
HVAC to Power Plants – Diverse Scenarios Addressed
ECOMax-HE® Automatic Tube Cleaning System for HVAC
It’s an Automatic Tube Cleaning System based on Patented & Patent-Pending designs that mitigates the fouling problem in the shell and tube heat exchangers with its online solution capabilities.
The product helps tackle the effect of fouling on HVAC chillers, preventing –
- Increased power consumption
- Reduced cooling capacity of chiller
- Reduction in COP
- Increased Condenser Approach
- Separate pumps for ball injection and collection, with negligible power consumption
- Parallel Injection and Collection Design offers ease of operation on multiple chillers
- Above feature allows simultaneous injection in one condenser and collection in another
- Single System for multiple Heat Exchangers/Condensers
- Fully automatic – online cleaning on continuous basis on running chillers
- No water wastage and no mixing of CW inlet and CW Outlet Water during operation
- Smart System – with Zero Ball Loss and alarm for Sponge Ball Replacement
- Touch screen Multi Colour HMI
- Minimal pressure drop in the Ball Trap
- Highly reliable as the system has less number of control valves
- Cleaning Sponge Balls would never be in contact with pump impeller
- Compact, smaller footprint with Green Technology
- Sight glass on the ball collector facilitates easy counting & monitoring of sponge balls
Results in up to 20% energy saving in HVAC chillers
Increases cooling capacity of HVAC Chillers
Reduces Specific Steam Consumption
Eliminates offline cleaning completely
Avoids costly shutdown and downtime
Very cost effective, usually offers a payback of less than 18 months
ECOMax-HE® Online Condenser Tube Cleaning System for Power Plants
ECOMax-HE® is an extremely effective online condenser tube cleaning system improving performance and efficiency of Power Plants by keeping inner walls of heat exchanger tubes clean.
The product helps tackle the scaling on power plant condensers –
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- Decreased turbine efficiency
Experience ECOMax-HE®
For Power Plants In Action
- Zero ball loss system, no balls can escape to cooling tower
- Ensures 100% clean tubes
- Single System for Multiple Chillers, even if the Chiller capacity is different
- Online ball counting mechanism
- No water wastage from the system
- No mixing of CW inlet and CW Outlet Water during operation
- Negligible power consumption by the booster pumps
- Compact, smaller footprint
- Low Maintenance
Results in up to 5% increase in power output in case of Power Plants
Improves Condenser tube life
Eliminates offline cleaning completely
Avoids downtime of power plant operations
Plant owners experience ROI in less than 18 months
ECOMax-HE® Heat Exchanger Tube Cleaning System for Process
It’s an Automatic Tube Cleaning System based on Patented & Patent-Pending designs that mitigates the fouling problem in the shell and tube heat exchangers with its online solution capabilities.
The product helps tackle the effect of fouling on Process Heat Exchangers, preventing –
- Reduced Heat Transfer
- Reduced productivity
- Increased steam consumption
- Separate pumps for ball injection and collection, with negligible power consumption
- Parallel Injection and Collection Design offers ease of operation on multiple chillers
- Above feature allows simultaneous injection in one condenser and collection in another
- Single System for multiple Heat Exchangers/Condensers
- Fully automatic – online cleaning on continuous basis on running heat exchangers
Savings on Energy Cost
Improved Heat Transfer
Lesser Pressure Drop
Increased Productivity
Reduced O&M Cost
Reduced usage of harmful chemicals for cleaning