Pickling or Chemical Cleaning of Pping System

Cleaning is an important phase in the commissioing of a new piping system.The method vary depending on the deposit and contaminant to be removed. Normally you hire the services of a cleaning contractor like Halliburton for this kind of work with the end user preparing the scope and criteria.

If you've have never done this and interested a good article written by Gregg Sanko has appearred in the July 2000 issues of the Welding Journal - title is "BAck to basics: A guide to Alkaline Cleaning". There is now a one step solution that Halliburton is offering for degreasing, cleaning and passivation of SS pipe. It saves us time and shortened the downtime. Received on Thu May 31 06:18:00 2001