Cleaning and liquid contact with solids – Apparatus – With treating fluid purifying or separating means
Patent
1990-03-06
1991-05-28
Coe, Philip R.
Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
Apparatus
With treating fluid purifying or separating means
134144, 134157, 134181, B08B 302
Patent
active
050185446
ABSTRACT:
A mobile tube bundle cleaning apparatus comprised of a truck mounted fluid and hydraulic pressure sources including high pressure pumps and diesel engines. The apparatus further includes a trailer mounted tube bundle cleaning system including an articulable mobile crane, outriggers for stabilizing the trailer during cleaning operations and a system for supporting and rotating a tube bundle during cleaning operations. The apparatus further includes a remote control pedestal from which an operator may control the fluid pressurizing system, the crane and the operation of the tube bundle rotating system.
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