Tuesday 6 October 2015

Plant Turnaround Services

Dunn Heat Exchangers is often perceived as a company that performs cleaning, repair and fabrication services only. However, this company is more than that and it offers plant turnaround services too.

Turnaround services are one more perk of working with Dunn Heat Exchangers. With these services, the plant or refinery saves a lot of money and time for maintenance of their heat exchangers. Our company successfully completes turnaround services in 24 hours.
 Turnaround Scheduling


The company offers the most extensive range of equipment cleaning and plant turnaround services available. For example, 16 pieces that are weighing up to 100,000 pounds can simultaneously undergo various cleaning services such as hydroblasting, waterlancing, grit blasting, or thermal decomposition.

Stages of plant turnaround services include:
  • Evaluation of the problem that would help engineers identify the most urgent parts in order to prioritize the execution
  • Restructuring stage – this is the stage when we look for the most effective solutions to various problems (to get maximum gain for minimum cost)
  • Stabilization stage – includes the incorporation of solutions to fix the problem
  • Revitalization – finalizing the project and delivering the equipment to plant or industry.

Turnaround services provided by Dunn Heat Exchangers include:
  • Pressure and vessel cleaning of heat exchangers
  • Repair
  • Modification
  • Fabrication.

 Plant Turnaround

Cleaning services are the most “popular” among turnaround services we offer. It’s because heat exchanger cleaning is performed in the biggest and most modern facility in the United States. Moreover, highly skilled craftsmen use equipment of the latest technology to perform this task and incorporate several different methods. For example:
  • Hydroblast and waterlancing – is cleaning of heat exchangers without usage of abrasives or chemicals. Hydroblast uses water power to remove fouling and waterlance uses steam. Furthermore, these methods are the most commonly used methods of heat exchangers cleaning.
  • Grit blast cleaning – refers to cleaning with abrasives. This method is performed in three enclosed grit blast houses.
  • Chemical cleaning – is usage of powerful chemicals in order to remove fouling.

When heat exchangers are cleaned and repaired, the equipment is delivered to the company, plant or refinery in the tractor-trailers or semi-trailor trucks that are specially designed, enclosed, and covered which guarantees the safety of heat exchangers during transport.

Plant turnaround services are just one more reason why you should let Dunn Heat Exchangers to maintain, repair, and fabricate heat exchangers from your refinery or plant. Decades spent in this business and reputation of one of the best companies that provide heat exchangers-related services only guarantee that all projects done by our skilled craftsmen will be 100% successful.

Feelfree to contact us in order to get more info about our service, and you can always schedule plant tour or lunch and learn sessions to find out more about heat exchangers and their maintenance.