Visbreakers pose unique issues at Turnarounds, and significant deposition can face Maintenance Crews. Through our involvement in the Bitumen Industry, we have formulations for cleaning equipment with heavy oil and coke. Using a CORE product in a hydrocarbon carrier, we can remove the vast majority of deposition. This is by using a cascade technique for the Atmospheric Fractionator Column, and totally flooding exchanges and drums.

You can apply the same CORE solution, in-situ, to Feed/Effluent exchangers. This is to recover thermal performance before returning to service, without pulling. Or to minimize the time required to water-jet the exchanger bundles.

Sometimes, a prior experience indicates that gas-freeing the Fractionator has been an issue. If so, CORE recommends a single cascade wash with an aqueous CORE product, immediately after the hydrocarbon-based product. The two washes can be completed in less than 36 hours, improving safety and saving time.

Please contact us to discover more about visbreakers. Our expert team at CORE (and J1) have experience in dealing with visbreakers and can offer expert advice. requirements. You can do so by calling us on our number above, or using the Contact Us page and filling in the contact form available. One of our team will then get back to you as soon as possible.