Cleaning the Impossible: Cracking the Ethane Cracker Our client converts ethane gas with its world-scale ethane cracker to 1.3 million tons of ethylene per year. Unfortunately their heat exchangers began fouling with a very heavy tar type subsance. They tried to clean these exchangers using fve contractors with various types of cleaning tools and solutions including hydro blasing up to 20,000 PSI and chemical cleaning after introducing seam to soften the foulant. They were unable to clean even one exchanger to the desired MFL inspection level. The problem was so nasy that all national contractors refused to even bid on solving the problem. The client really needed a susainable solution since they expected to have to clean the exchangers annually. The client requesed we perform an immediat

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