When reviewing cleaning processes for industrial vessels and storage tank equipment, it is important to consider factors such as contamination, product quality to meet today’s strict market standards. Many processing facilities are operating at maximum production levels and looking to improve their efficiency when it comes to minimising downtime in cleaning of process machinery and storage tank equipment.
OEM process machinery and storage tank equipment are commonly fitted with basic static spray balls. A static spray ball has a spherical shape with numerous 1 to 2 mm drilled holes and various inlet connections. i.e. weld, tube clipped, female threaded etc.
Static spray balls are commonly used for CIP processes and have many disadvantages:
All of the above lead to longer CIP times, increased water, chemical usage and more importantly inferior cleaning of tank wall surfaces to avoid cross contamination, hence possible re-cleaning of process machinery and storage tank equipment. Re-cleaning of equipment may occur on numerous occasions throughout the day, week, month or year.
A quality rotating tank washing head has two or more nozzles creating high impact solid liquid jets, scouring inner tank and tote interiors in a repeatable, reliable, 360-degree pattern, successfully delivering clean tank interiors allowing new batch processing after initial CIP. This can take less than half the time, thus using less water, chemical and time versus current methods, contributing to an increase in overall productivity and large savings with water, chemical and energy over the year.
Below is a tank cleaning savings calculator which can help estimate potential time savings by optimising your tank cleaning process. Please click and discover how much extra time can be saved in your tank cleaning process, helping increase productivity in bringing your process machinery and storage tank equipment back on line faster.
Spray Nozzle Engineering Pty Ltd is based both in Australia and New Zealand and have technical representatives that can help assist with all of your CIP tank cleaning needs, finding the best tank cleaning product to suit the smallest vessel to the largest of tank.
The company offers tank cleaning heads for industries such as:
Spray Nozzle Engineering offers a large range of tank cleaning machines suitable for applications such as: