Hot cleaning applications in buildings

REQUIREMENTS

When removing fire damage, soot, burnt-in grease and oil as well as encrusted dust and grease mixtures must be cleaned from a wide variety of surfaces and materials. The contaminated parts often have very complex surface geometries and are sometimes very sensitive.

PREVIOUS TECHNIQUE

Typically, various highly aggressive cleaners and a large amount of rags are used for these applications. In individual cases, high-pressure cleaners are used.

OUR SOLUTION

Low-pressure hot cleaning offers a cost-effective and efficient solution here, because soot and other greasy residues can be cleaned off quickly and without residues with our process - low pressure and high temperatures.

Thanks to various nozzles, cleaning is fast and efficient, and even complex surfaces pose no problem.

In practice, our devices - devices with a parts cleaning level would be ideal here - can be used directly on site and for all kinds of parts, even sooty computer drives.

YOUR ADVANTAGES

• Cleaning even heavily sooted and complex surfaces or difficult part geometries quickly and efficiently and without mechanical reworking - this saves a lot of working time.
• No damage to parts thanks to low pressure.
• Mobility: Devices are mobile and self-sufficient thanks to their own water tanks; therefore ideally suited for on-site use.
• Minimal splash-back effects, no clouds of droplets, no aerosols. Soot particles are bound by low pressure and not blown away as with a high-pressure cleaner – this protects staff and the environment.
• Cleaning with hot water rather than with aggressive chemicals, therefore minimal costs for procurement and disposal.
• Recycling of the cleaning medium - this can be reused several times and the medium does not have to be disposed of on site.
• Significantly more convenient, faster and more efficient than manual cleaning.
• Devices can be used universally, and are ideal for parts cleaning of all kinds.
• Environmental protection: Reduced resources means increased environmental compatibility and significantly lower costs.
• Occupational safety: Easy handling and no spray effects mean more occupational safety for the employees.

In summary: Low investment, resource-saving and environmentally friendly, at the same time low operating costs, improved work safety and high efficiency and quality

REQUIREMENTS

Working with oil- or emulsion-guided machine tools, especially if they are not equipped with oil mist separation, leads to deposits of parts of the oil mist from machining or forming on the ceilings and walls of the production hall.

This not only makes them visually unsightly, but also increasingly restricts their light- and heat-reflecting function. In addition, the odour nuisance is considerable or at least takes some getting used to.

Since the halls are usually filled with production facilities and their peripherals, cleaning the ceiling surfaces is usually extremely difficult. Therefore, the cleaning is normally done when halls or parts of the halls are unoccupied, e.g. due to a machine relocation.

PREVIOUS TECHNIQUE

In practice, ceilings contaminated with oil or emulsion residues have to be cleaned laboriously by hand and with a lot of chemicals or with high pressure. Manual cleaning requires working overhead at great heights with rags. This is extremely strenuous, and the entire cleaning medium - usually water with alkaline cleaner - including the dirt drips unprotected onto the hall floor (and usually also onto the cleaning staff). In addition, the cleaning medium has to be lifted bucket by bucket onto the scaffolding or cherry picker.

Alkaline cleaning agents are also usually mixed in when cleaning with high pressure; these are distributed across the entire factory hall in a cloud of droplets due to the high pressure, together with the cleaned dirt. Of course, this only works if the hall is either empty or the machines and their periphery are appropriately covered.

OUR SOLUTION

Low-pressure hot cleaning offers a cost-effective and efficient solution here, because oily and greasy residues - and thus also oil mist deposits - can be cleaned off quickly and without leaving residues with our method.

Although our method also requires working overhead, it is much more comfortable because there is no need to scrub by hand; instead, the ceiling is simply sprayed. The actual cleaning is not done mechanically - the scrubbing or the high pressure - but by the high temperature of up to 95°C. At the same time, only little water is needed, and the entire cleaning process is much more convenient.

At the same time, only a small amount of water is needed, and this is not distributed over the entire factory floor in large clouds of droplets, but remains local - as is the case with manual cleaning. Consequently, only a fraction of the alkaline cleaner is needed.

YOUR ADVANTAGES

• Fast and efficient cleaning without mechanical reworking - this saves significant working time.
• Considerably more comfortable, faster and more efficient work than cleaning by hand or with a high-pressure cleaner.
• Easy access even to difficult places, such as behind steel girders, on portal cranes, etc., thanks to various nozzles and lances.
• No flooding, no splash-back effects, no clouds of droplets, no spreading of dirt through the workshop - this protects employees and the environment.
• Cleaning with hot water and without chemistry, or very little chemistry, therefore minimal costs for procurement and disposal.
• Mobility: Devices are mobile and self-sufficient thanks to their own water tank; therefore ideal for on-site use.
• Devices can be used universally in operating and maintenance.
• Environmental protection: Less resources means greater environmental compatibility and significantly lower costs.
• Occupational safety: Easy handling and no spraying effects mean more occupational safety for employees.

In summary: Low investment, resource-saving and environmentally friendly, at the same time low operating costs, improved occupational safety, significantly more comfortable work, combined with high efficiency and quality.

REQUIREMENTS

In climbing gyms, handholds and footholds have to be cleaned regularly. The abrasion from shoes, magnesium or chalk, skin residues and simply the daily dirt must be removed.

YOUR ADVANTAGES

• Devices can be used directly in the climbing hall, as they are mobile and self-sufficient - therefore no travelling time and independent of weather conditions.
• Fast and efficient cleaning due to high temperatures saves working time - often 80-90%.
• Parts are not "shot” through the hall as in the case of cleaning with high pressure - no damage and easy and comfortable work.
• No splash-back effects, no clouds of droplets, no aerosols - this protects employees and the environment.
• Cleaning with hot water and without chemistry, or at most, with very little chemistry, therefore minimal costs for procurement and disposal.
• Devices can be used universally, for example also for maintenance.
• Environmental protection: Less resources means higher environmental compatibility and significantly lower costs.
• Occupational safety: Easy handling and no spraying effects mean more occupational safety for employees.

In summary: Low investment, resource-saving and environmentally friendly, at the same time cleaning directly on site in the climbing hall, low costs, significantly more comfortable and faster work, as well as high efficiency and quality.

One of the more peculiar applications of our technology is radiator cleaning in hospitals and retirement homes: These are typically cleaned once or twice a year, but often the occupants cannot leave their rooms. Given their fragile health, dirt including house dust, mites and pollen must not be dispersed around the room.

Since it is rather difficult to enter the small spaces between the ribs of the radiators, in particular of modern flat radiators, one of our customers uses our technique to spray the radiators off from above; at the same time he collects the used water with a simple rectangular flower box. This works extremely well, is very fast, and does not incommodate the occupants.