What is a turbine cleaning?

pollution on the turbine blades may have a significant negative effect on their performance and may, if uncontrolled, lead to a turbine failure. Cleaning the turbine is therefore a critical part of the maintenance of the turbine operator. One of the most popular methods of turbine cleaning is the pressure process of carbon dioxide (CO2). This process involves screening of high -pressure current of frozen CO2 pellets on contaminated parts of the turbine. Pellets remove pollution on the turbine blades without damaging and evaporating into CO2 gas, leaving no further clutter. Unfortunately, the average operating environment of the turbine is relatively aggressive and loaded with contaminants, which quickly form standards of scale or carbon on blades in various stages of the turbine. These deposits or pollution may increase to the extent that they eventually cause imbalances in the turbine rotor. This leads to a gradual decrease in rotary rotary and overall turbine efficiency and can, not if corrected, leads to damage to the rotor. Thanks to these facts, the rule isElbe removal of the accumulation of pollution by the necessary point for any turbine maintenance plan.

Average industrial or air turbine has several phases consisting of thousands of individual turbine blades. In some cases, the power deposition may be removed manually with solvents on these blades. However, it is a very time -consuming process and other methods of turbine cleaning, such as CO2, are much more popular. The CO2 turbine cleaning process includes blasting blades with a high -pressure beam of frozen CO2 pellets. Frozen CO2 is commonly known as dry ice, is softer than sand or glass beads and does not damage sensitive blades or change their geometry, but it is hard enough to wear stubborn contamination.

pellets of CO2 are usually projected by a stream of compressed air from a pocket lance, which the process is flexible enough to get into all small spaceson the turbine. CO2 is also non -toxic and does not pose any danger to the process operator or the environment. Another advantage of this type of turbine cleaning is the lack of clutter after cleaning. The frozen pellets heat up rapidly during the process and evaporate into the harmless gas of carbon dioxide, leaving the work area clean and without water and residues.