No matter whether you are working in the industries or not, using tubes is a pure necessity for heat exchangers and condensers that should not be neglected. However, you will come across several tube cleaning equipment but before choosing the one you need to take a look at the post that offers a piece of advice to consider especially when it comes to tube inspection.
You will come across a variety of tubes like, cold drawn tubes, condenser tubes, heat exchanger tubes and the list goes on. Different types of tube encounter different problems like some may suffer from different corrosion while others with fault mechanisms. Perhaps, fouling is one of the major problem found within most of the heat exchangers which results in reducing the temperature on the cold side and increasing on the hot side.
Here I would like to share a few tube testing techniques to keep in mind especially when you aim to inspect the cold drawn tubes.
Technique 1- IRIS, Internal Rotary inspection system is a high precision technique that is based on ultrasonics which aims to provide a perfect picture of the internal of the tube with high accuracy. From small pitting to very small kind of defects, IRIS can work at its best. Always remember to keep your tube clean, so that the ultrasonic travels easily without much hurdles.
LFET is another technique which can be applied to anything, whether its mechanical tubes or cold drawn tubes or anything else such as tanks, pipelines, tubing, boilers, etc. Moreover, LFET is such an external technique that has proved to offer a high resolution on the ultrasonic spot checks.
MagWave is the final technique that can be used for condenser tubes. It uses saturation probe that simply saturates the material with an electromagnetic field allowing ferrous materials to be inspected with a greater accuracy.
Keep an eye on this space to get a better perspective!
You will come across a variety of tubes like, cold drawn tubes, condenser tubes, heat exchanger tubes and the list goes on. Different types of tube encounter different problems like some may suffer from different corrosion while others with fault mechanisms. Perhaps, fouling is one of the major problem found within most of the heat exchangers which results in reducing the temperature on the cold side and increasing on the hot side.
Here I would like to share a few tube testing techniques to keep in mind especially when you aim to inspect the cold drawn tubes.
Technique 1- IRIS, Internal Rotary inspection system is a high precision technique that is based on ultrasonics which aims to provide a perfect picture of the internal of the tube with high accuracy. From small pitting to very small kind of defects, IRIS can work at its best. Always remember to keep your tube clean, so that the ultrasonic travels easily without much hurdles.
LFET is another technique which can be applied to anything, whether its mechanical tubes or cold drawn tubes or anything else such as tanks, pipelines, tubing, boilers, etc. Moreover, LFET is such an external technique that has proved to offer a high resolution on the ultrasonic spot checks.
MagWave is the final technique that can be used for condenser tubes. It uses saturation probe that simply saturates the material with an electromagnetic field allowing ferrous materials to be inspected with a greater accuracy.
Keep an eye on this space to get a better perspective!
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