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Since 1923, Conco Services LLC has been an innovator in the field of condenser and heat exchanger maintenance and performance. After designing and manufacturing the world’s first mechanical tube cleaners, Conco has continuously expanded upon its suite of products and services. Today, as energy producers focus more than ever on safety, sustainability, and efficiency, Conco is at the forefront helping minimize risk, conserve water, and increase performance.
- Have you ever felt the pain of repeated calls back to cleaning and NDT vendors in attempts to get exchanger tubes clean enough for reliable test results?
- Are you interested in saving money, gaining time, and removing that thorn from your side during your next shutdown?
At the center of Conco’s offerings are the mechanical tube cleaning systems. Conco manufactures a range of TruFit™ tube cleaner styles and sizes, each designed to address different foulants, tube materials, and exchanger configurations. The ProSeries™ system is the heart of Conco’s cleaning capabilities, as it propels the TruFit tube cleaners and powers the HydroDrill™ when blocked tubes need to be opened. The biggest ProSeries pumps are 3’ W x 5’ L x 4’ H, top out at near 600 PSI, and consume 90% less water than HP/UHP pumps.
The Excaliber® is a versatile and powerful system in an extremely small package. It utilizes a 5-hp air motor, a flexible shaft with water flush, and a variety of rotating heads to open blocked tubes, clean light fouling, and do a final “brush-up” when extra cleanliness is needed. Excaliber can even be used completely dry for applications with equipment and/or processes that are sensitive to the introduction of water. Best of all, Excaliber is no bigger than a hand-carry toolbox and employs standard plant air and water – no pumps, fuel, or generators needed!
- What are the costs in dollars, time, and morale when a technician is injured by a 20k PSI lance? What happens to a turnaround when a worker is carried away in an ambulance?
- Could you wrap up your maintenance activities sooner if other work can continue next to, or even directly beneath exchanger cleaning? What might you save in labor costs? How much extra money will your units make by returning to service earlier?
- How much water do your contractors use for exchanger tube cleaning? What if Conco can help you reduce treatment costs of that wastewater by 90%?
- What will it mean to you if you don’t need to find a spot for several hydroblasting rigs on your next turnaround?
Though Conco is synonymous with mechanical tube cleaning, NDT is another specialty. Analysts, technicians, and equipment are based in the Pittsburgh, PA, La Porte, TX, Gonzales, LA, and Antioch, CA, offices. These strategic locations provide customers at refining, petrochemical, nuclear generation, US Navy, fossil generation, and myriad other industrial sites with the following NDT services:
- ECT - Eddy Current Testing
- RFT - Remote Field Testing
- ECTA - Eddy Current Array Testing
- NFT - Near Field Testing
- NFA - Near Field Array Testing
- IRIS - Internal Rotary Inspection System
- ECTSAT - Saturation Eddy Current
- SET/SETA - Surface and Surface Array Eddy Current
In addition to cleaning and NDT, Conco offers tracer gas leak detection services on both pressure vessels and vacuum systems. Helium is especially useful for finding small leaks, those that are difficult to locate, and when process and/or time constraints mean that filling a vessel with water is less than desirable. Conco’s dedicated leak detection crew chiefs are regularly called to far-flung international locales due to their experience and expertise. They have worked with plant engineers to devise custom test methods on non-traditional systems and are always ready to go in the “need you now” world of leak detection. To meet ever-increasing demand in the Gulf Coast, a Conco crew chief has just relocated to the La Porte, TX, location to lead the expansion of the leak detection department.
- Have you used, or considered using, tracer gas leak detection to quickly and reliably locate leaking tubes, flanges, valves, etc.?
- Do you want to save time and get a more reliable result on your next tube leak search?
Bold claims? Conco’s senior account managers are ready to meet with you and show you the calculator Conco has developed to put real numbers on savings you can realize. Given a work scope, Conco can provide approximate estimates of savings in terms of dollars spent on wastewater treatment, total cleaning duration, and at-risk hours. Upon completion of the work scope, Conco can plug in the actual figures from the job so that you can compare to the pre-job estimate and use it to inform your decisions as you plan future turnarounds.
Call Conco or email EJ Saxon at Esaxon2@conco.net now and eliminate hydroblasting risk, save 90% on wastewater treatment costs, finish the work 50%-75% more quickly, and eradicate NDT delays and headaches on your next tube cleaning and testing applications.
