CQM applications

Air-conditioning
The air-conditioning market is one of the biggest target markets for the C.Q.M. machines. Applications are mostly with central air-conditioning units, like in hospitals, banks, hotels, office buildings etc.
A specific advantage of this market is that all air-conditioners and coolers work identically. Therefor power saving calculations appear throughout each and every manufacturer's literature and one can calculate the pay-back time very accurately.
Energy savings of 15 - 30 % are very common in this market.

Power Stations
Ball cleaning systems are widely used in this application for many years.
Biggest advantages of the C.Q.M. system are the competitive price level and the fact that the balls return to the injector by means of the system pressure. In other systems one uses a separate pump, which gives a lot of wear and damage to the cleaning balls.

Cooling systems
Used in plants for the production of dairy products and ice-cream, in meat processing plants and in cold-storage plants. Due to their nature, these systems usually work around the clock, 365 days a year. They differ from each other as to the cooling matter flowing therein: ammoniac or Freon.

Cooling systems are susceptible to problems involving down-time for purposes of prolonged treatment and cleaning of heat exchangers, thus the system is stopped and causes detoriation in the production process.

Refineries / Chemical industry
Here a large number of heat exchanger processes require regular cleaning. This is done at present by means of hand cleaning and requires stoppage of the heat exchanging system.


Pharmaceutical Industry
These production processes require a constant temperature. Due to the contamination of heat exchangers, there is a reduction in output and changes in temperature. The temperature differential over the walls becomes higher and the media can be locally overheated. The results in a worse product quality.

Textile industry
These plants are highly affected due to the dirt in the water towers caused by the production process. This blocks the heat exchangers.

Plastics industry
Their problem lies in small heat exchangers and small diameter inner piping which absolutely prevent mechanical cleaning. This often involves rinsing with acid, whereby heat exchangers are often damaged.

Ships
Given the presence of algae and micro-organisms in the sea water, which is often used for cooling, these are liable to cause problems so that the heat exchangers lose their excellence of operation.
New ships carry only small crews, thus there is no available personnel to deal with the high frequency treatment required by heat exchangers. Furthermore a ship's down-time costs thousands of dollars a day.