Evaporator cleaning interval on a fresh water generator The evaporator cleaning interval on M/V Hermes Leader’s fresh water generator was too short, as scale built up on the heat exchanger plates and water production dropped to around 17 cubic metres a day....
Freshwater generator output and cleaning time Freshwater generator output on MV Hoegh America was at risk from up to 3 mm of scale on the generator’s titanium plates. The FWG needed chemical dosing to keep running and took 24 to 48 hours to clean, and the...
An 18 month marine cleaning interval on a fresh water generator The marine cleaning interval on MV Hoegh Antwerp’s fresh water generator was set by scale, and with no chemical dosing system on board, manual cleaning was the only control. Every clean meant...
Bulk carrier water treatment on the fresh water generator Bulk carrier water treatment on UBC Baton Rouge relied on chemical dosing, yet the fresh water generator was still being opened roughly once a month, with each clean taking around 24 hours. Hard scale held the...
A 1000 ppm hard water hotel and its condensers The Taj hotel in Chandigarh is a 1000 ppm hard water hotel: its supply sits at around 1,000 ppm hardness, extreme by any standard. Its condensers needed cleaning every week, the automatic tube cleaning system (ATCS) balls...
