April, 2008
THIS ARTICLE IS COPYWRITTEN BY APPLIED TECHNOLOGY PUBLICATIONS.
Scale and plugs getting you down? Pipe Cleaning
Solutions
For Industry’s
Toughest Problems
Founded in 1992, Aqua Drill International (ADI) offers
worldwide specialized industrial pipe, exchanger,
tube, vessel and tank cleaning services to the Refining,
Chemical, Petrochemical, Power, Pulp & Paper,
Municipal and other industries. According to the company,
based on years of development and continuous improvement
in design and operational experience, ADI Engineering
offers some of the most advanced high-pressure
water-jet cleaning technologies available in the marketplace.
These proprietary, patented and patent-pending
products are manufactured under strict quality control and
used exclusively by Aqua Drill companies. All ADI cleaning
technologies are designed to the highest safety standards to
eliminate “hands-on” operations and personnel exposure.
- Suitable for the most complicated cleaning applications,
Aqua Milling® Process can reach NACE No. 5/SSPC-SP
12 WJ1 level cleanliness.
- More than 180 different customized Aqua Milling®
cleaning tools are available for remote controlled
removal of hardest incrustation from internal piping in
sizes from I.D. ¾ inch to I.D. 12 ft. ADI has successfully
removed various buildups and plugs of extreme hard
needle coke, polymers, and calcium carbonate, soft tar,
sulphur, calcium, styrene, nickel, nylon, green and black
liquor and other materials.
- Aqua Milling can clean pipe systems with multiple 90° or
180° elbow configurations, up to 600 feet in length. (In
special cases, up to 1500 feet in length have been cleaned
with minimal entry points.) Flare stacks and chimneys
have been cleaned climbing up to 300 feet vertical from a
ground entry point with no support from the top.
- PIO-Aqua Milling products can be used for cleaning
of small- to large-diameter piping systems that have to
remain in pressurized service and “on-line” during the
cleaning operation.
- Aqua Milling is capable of cleaning tubing as small as
I.D. ¾”, reaching IRIS and Eddie current inspection levels
and saving the destruction of exchangers. (For cleaning
very small heat exchanger tubing, ADI has developed the
Aqua Lancer.)
- The Aqua Rover™ is a revolutionary high-pressure
water-jet cleaning technology development. This
product has the capability to clean large-diameter pipe
with steep inclines or vertical sections on a distance of
up to 6000 feet from one entry point. The self-propelled
robotic equipment utilizes Aqua Milling® jet cleaning
heads designed to remove coating, corrosion, tuberculation,
hard scale deposits, calcium carbonate and/or
zebra mussels.
- Aqua Rover has been used for cleaning of I.D. 10 ft. pipe
in Louisiana. In Germany and Switzerland, ADI has
successfully cleaned I.D. 12 ft. pipe with steep inclines
and vertical sections in mountainous terrain for hydro
power plants.
Aqua Drill International
Prairieville, LA