An intermediate course to develop the engineers and operators deals with Materials and Corrosion Control about chemical cleaning principle, uses, procedures, and its applications.

Engineers, operators and lab chemists who deals with Process, Materials and Corrosion Control.

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions   

Principles of chemical cleaning:

• Sampling and solubility testing prior to chemical cleaning.
• Which chemicals are useful?
• Chemical cleaning techniques are varied.

Chemical cleaning equipment:

• Components for field use.
• Mobile chemical cleaning rigs.
• Centralized facilities.
• Typical chemical cleaning tanks for field and shop use.
• Use of standard fittings for chemical connections.
• Typical acid cleaning rig and transporter.
• Typical exchanger cleaning area.

Coolers and condensers :

• Off stream cleaning techniques.
• On-stream cleaning is preferred method.
• Air side of air fin exchangers.

Process side deposits:

• Techniques for chemically cleaning exchangers.
• Techniques for chemically cleaning towers.
• Which solvent do you choose?
• Techniques for cleaning piping and pipelines.
• Techniques for cleaning furnace tubes.
• Techniques for cleaning miscellaneous equipment.
• Techniques for cleaning to achieve low sulfur standards (catalyst conversion).

Steam generators:

• Deposits in low pressure boilers.
• Deposits in high pressure boilers.
• How much deposit can you tolerate.
• Determining boiler cleaning schedules.
• Recommended procedure for determining cleaning frequency.
• How to select a boiler cleaning process.
• Cost of cleaning varies according to amount of deposit.
• Cleaning non-drainable and non-ventable systems.
• Preparation for acid cleaning (HCl or citric).
• Alkaline detergent wash for oil and grease removal.
• Boiler cleaning with hydrochloric acid.
• Boiler cleaning with ammoniated citric acid.
• Boiler cleaning with chelating agents (dow vertan 675 or halliburton macor).
• Testing and post cleaning inspection.
• Post cleaning passivation and start-up.

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.