Tank Cleaning – ProShield

Tank Cleaning Procedure: The Ultimate Guide

A proper tank cleaning process is paramount to ensuring the highest possible quality of your product. However, in the busy atmosphere of managing a company, this task can be forgotten, neglected, or simply ignored – a potentially dangerous oversight. Neglecting to clean your tanks properly can mean leftover residue from previous batches is left.

The goal: to provide a helpful guide to plan a perfect tank cleaning process.
The 4 Basics of Tank Cleaning
The four basic principles for cleaning tanks are chemistry, mechanical action, temperature and time. Each one is important, the key is finding the perfect balance between all of them to make your process most efficient.

Chemistry

When considering the type of cleaning agent to use the term “less is more,” should come into play. Using too much or to little chemical could cause damage to your tank by deteriorating it or not cleaning properly, which in turn will cause bacteria to grow. Whether you are using an alkaline detergent or acid solution, a CIP (cleaning in place) method is your best option and will help control the precise amount of chemicals.

Temperature

The right temperature of chemicals is essential to your cleaning process. In order to protect your tank without disrupting the chemicals within the cleaning process, you should always follow the recommended temperature from the chemical provider.

Time

Time is a tricky variable, there are a lot of factors that come into play with it. The type of tank, NORM existence, concentrated soil and type of soil are all things that you will need to take into consideration when determining the time it will take to properly clean. Adjustments will need to be made in order to reach the desired temperature.

Mechanics

In order to keep water consumption and chemical costs down you need a reliable system in place. This is precisely where our rotational nozzles come into play, because they produce a better and higher mechanism for cleaning. Their greater efficiency helps to permanently reduce costs for cleaning agents, amount of water being used, and lower cycle times. Our rotating nozzles deliver the greatest impact by producing large droplets which strike the tank wall at high speeds removing thick soil. Important influencing factors are the distance between the nozzle and wall, and the operating pressure. If either are too great the fluid will break down into smaller droplets and the impact will be reduced.