The articles are in Acrobat Format. If you do not have Acrobat you may download it free.

AIMMTECH has been in operation for more than 10 years. During this thriving period, and after thousands of man-hours, the company has never had a lost time accident . This notable achievement is a result of the simplicity and safety factors included in the design of our patented process. Whereas the water stream following into the pipe/line/tube is controlled by a technician on a remote control console, the waste water and fouling material are extruded at the posterior end of the pipe/line/tube, away from our technicians. There is no human exposure to harmful waste materials or pressure water, making Hydrokinetics™ the safest cleaning methods available.

AIMMTECH successfully clears bundles and piping built in the following materials:

   

Mild Steel Inconnel Black Iron Fiberglass All types of Stainless Steel (304,404,etc.)

Copper Bronze Aluminium PVC

Cooper-Nickel Alloys Hastalloy C Carbon Admiralty Alloy Types

Some of the fouling materials that AIMMTECH has successfully cleared from these type of bundles/pipes are:

Calcium Carbonate Polyethylene Black Iron Sulphur Pulp Styrene

Sulphate Latex Nylon Crude Oil Coke NORM waste

Polypropylene Asphalt Polly-carbonate Mill Scale Cement

   

CASE HISTORY 1 (Polymer Cleaning)

AIMMTECH "Hydrokinetically" cleaned 14 heat exchangers in the process train of a recovery unit in a petrochemical plant in Houston, Texas. Each exchanger, some plugged for several years, was severely fouled with polymers. With over 500 tubes each, there were 7000 tubes needing AIMM´s cleaning.
Read Case 1 full story

CASE HISTORY 2 ( Nickel - Sulphite Cleaning)

A syngas plant located on Houston's Ship Channel contacted AIMMTECH, anxious for a remedy to their unique predicament. An 840-tube exchanger was plugged solid with a nickel sulphite product. A disappointing attempt to sand jet the tubes merely resulted in 805 of the tubes being blocked with both sand and nickel sulphite. Only 35 tubes were open in the entire bundle.
Read Case 2 full story

CASE HISTORY 3 ( Catalyst / Coke Cleaning)

A Texas City, Texas petrochemical plant had a 600-tube exchanger with a majority of its tubes blocked many for over 10 years. The foulant was a core of catalyst surrounded by crystallized coke on the walls of the tubes. Previous attempts to open tubes utilizing global drill bits were unsuccessful and resulted in nine drill bits being "lost" in the tubes. The efficiency of the entire exchanger was so poor that plans were already made to replace the unit, when AIMMTECH was called to try their Hydrokinetics™ process on the foulant.
Read Case 3 full story

CASE HISTORY 4 ( Ash Cleaning )

Eight thousand feet of 2 ½" Ø boiler tubes and at a central Texas power plant were plugged with fly ash, lime and other fouling materials. Previous cleaning methods by other companies had routinely taken four weeks: two weeks for cutting out the tubes for hydro-blasting and two weeks for tube replacement.
Read Case 4 full story

CASE HISTORY 5 ( Crude Furnace De-Coking De-Scaling )

On May 21st, 2001 AIMMTECH was contacted by ATOFINA's Engineering Department concerning a problem that the Port Arthur, Texas. facility had with the #02H-101 Crude heater. For reasons unknown to AIMMTECH the heater had lost flow to it's #4 pass and had "coked" solid. No flow was present thus negating the possibility of the use of traditional steam air De-Coking procedures. A discussion was held to determine whether Hydrokinetics™ could successfully unplug the heater and complete the de-coking / de-scaling job in less time. AIMMTECH has extensive experience in cleaning products such as Coke and assured ATOFINA that this would be a viable application utilizing Hydrokinetics™. After the discussion of the problem with ATOFINA's, AIMMTECH's representatives felt that the Hydrokinetics process was viable, as no other available technology will work on totally blocked tubes. AIMMTECH agreed to mobilize immediately and be at the plant on Tuesday May 22nd, 2001.
Read Case 5 full story