New Bern, NC 02/5/2024
If vessels, tanks or reactors foul with product… what is the cost to production in lower quality end product, lower production and/or contamination between batches? This is a serious consideration, and many plants must keep production vessels as clean as possible in order to ensure product quality and consistent production. In the past, the cleaning was completed with caustic or manual entry into the enclosed spaces. This was costly, time consuming and environmentally unfriendly and wasteful.
Today, Uraca cleaning systems effortlessly keep enclosed spaces clean using environmentally friendly high-pressure water. From production vessels to rail cars, Uraca cleaning systems can be installed with various levels of automation depending on customer needs. Let’s examine two typical cases:
Tank Car Sample Case – a company transporting product by tank railcar to customers ultimately realized most of the tank railcars delivered to customers were short of the actual capacity of the tank cars. Older product caked inside tank cars reducing the loading and delivery amount by as much as 10-15%. This presented a huge problem as the tank cars were moving the same product between manufacturer and buyer and this amount wasn’t billable. The manufacturer looked for a solution to quickly clean the tank cars before loading and found the Uraca Trunk-O-Jet the ideal solution. The Trunk-O-Jet positions Uraca 3d tools inside tank cars for a 40+/- minute high-pressure clean using less water and time than alternative methods. The clean cycle removed all the deposits from the tank car allowing the tank car to be completely filled and emptied of product. Thus, the manufacturer was able to invoice for 100% loads vs 85% per tank car saving the company large sums of money.
Vessel Case – A polymer manufacturing company with 10 large 80,000 gallon vessels was using caustic to clean each vessel once a week. The process consumed huge amounts of caustic and required approximately 24 hours of lost production between clean cycles for each vessel. Production was then tasked to increase production using the same 10 vessels to keep up with orders.
After lengthy research and testing, the company ultimately selected a Uraca cleaning system. The system offered the company the best advantages and shortest return on investment available. The advantages included, but were not limited to:
- Shorter clean cycles – vessels were cleaned in 30-60 minutes vs 24 hours.
- Better end product as cleaning was done more regularly than just once a week.
- Fast batch changes for new products.
- No caustic required – Just environmentally friendly water!
- Cleaning systems fully integrated with the plant DCS allow for fast cycles.
- Robust Uraca systems offer long life and durability up to the challenging tasks.
- Increased production demands were easily met from the same vessels.
- Based on benefits, the return on investment is unmatched.
Uraca cleaning systems have a proven track record and are backed up by a global network of service centers. Learn more about if a Uraca cleaning system is the right fit for your application. Contact us for more information on how we may be of service.
