The Challenge
- Spray nozzle scale blockage stopped the line every week
- 200 micron outlets were highly vulnerable to scale blockage
- Pressure reduction at the outlets encouraged scale formation
- Each acid-bath cleaning took three hours with the line stopped
- Cleaning created downtime, labour and chemical costs
The Solution
On the UK’s largest crisp factory, one HydroFLOW® i45 was fitted after the pumps on the two flexible plastic feed pipes, treating all four sets of 200 micron spray nozzles on the cold-water spray bars. Nozzles that had blocked weekly stayed clear for 24 weeks, so the weekly three-hour acid soak and the production stoppage that went with it were no longer needed.
