{"id":9613,"date":"2023-10-20T15:44:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/?p=9613"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:44:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:44:44","slug":"how-to-clean-shell-and-tube-heat-exchangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/9613\/how-to-clean-shell-and-tube-heat-exchangers\/","title":{"rendered":"How to clean shell and tube heat exchangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

How shell and tube heat exchangers<\/strong><\/a> get cleaned? The idea of this new post came from a comment on a video on our Tempco YouTube channel<\/a>. Let\u2019s start saying that there are several kind of shell and tube exchangers, but the two main typologies are U pipes bundle exchangers<\/a><\/strong>, where the pipes bundle can be extracted, and straight pipes shell and tube exchangers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A cleanable straight pipes exchanger is usually employed letting the dirty fluid flow inside the pipes<\/strong>, whereas the clean fluid flows inside the shell. That’s because usually the shell cannot be disassembled<\/strong> and therefore only the tubes can be cleaned. This can be acheived both through a washing, or also by dismantling the two heads of the exchanger and cleaning the pipes by inserting pipe cleaners, thus making a mechanical cleaning of the inside surfaces of tubes.<\/p>\n

This is in fact a very simple operation, but it is also true that it depends on the lenght of the shell and pipe exchanger<\/strong> because in case the shell and tube exchanger is very long, we need a contiguous space in order to insert the pipe cleaner and get the overall length of the pipe cleaned.<\/p>\n

Clearly if the pipe is very long, it becomes difficult to achieve a proper cleaning of the middle section of the tube, but let’s say it’s something that can be done anyway, and quite simple as well.<\/p>\n