Apparatus for cleaning heat exchanger tube bundles

Cleaning and liquid contact with solids – Apparatus – With treating fluid purifying or separating means

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134144, 134157, 134181, B08B 302

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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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