BLP International from Hillegom offers an improved Archoil Nanoborate Fluid to meet the urgent demand of plants and shipping companies for a solution to the clogging of pipingsystems used for thermic oils and heat transfer fluids. To date, carbon deposition on the inside of the pipes cause unplanned production stops, bringing high and immediate costs. A solution was created by blending a nanoborate formulation in an ester matrix. Result: a treatment that removes existing carbon formations, prevents against carbonizing and inhibits carbon build-up. Tests and projects show that the application`s results last, between 3 to 4 years, before draining is needed.
Wouter Verschuren, operations manager at BLP International explains: `The problem of carbon deposition is not new. Often the solution is aimed at preventing build-up by keeping carbonization in suspension. That surely slows the process, but at the expense of the flash point and auto-ignitionpunt of the fluid. This is undesirable and can also be dangerous. Because stops cost fortunes and often whole pipe sections must be cut away meaning long downtime, we allied with our manufacturer of boron-based applications and two of our customers and started engineering. We developed a solution suitable for sale. A number of factories and owners started using it some time ago and are pleased with the features, performance and usability of this solution.`
Nanoborate applications have three main features: anti-corrosiveness, wear resistance and an extremely low friction coefficient. Because Nanoborate develops a chelate bonding with the metal surface, it remains in place for a long period of time. The extremely low coefficient of friction prevents the carbon particles from forming and building up inside and make them end up where they belong: in the filters. The chelate bonding slowly dissolves deposits on the insides of the pipingsystem. The ester matrix is responsible for polarization, film formation and impregnation.
Archoil AR 2100 and the Archoil AR2100F (foodgrade) Fluid Treatments have a flashpoint of 215 ° C and an auto-ignition point of 399 º C. The applications can be added to existing fluids with a ratio of 1:12 to 1:20 and are also available as pre-mix (AR2101).
