Chemical cleaning of boilers provides several advantages over mechanical cleaning. Chemical cleaning can be performed without dismantling equipment, allowing for a uniform cleaning. Advances in chemical mixtures have improved foaming and emulsions to enhance cleaning. It is important to know when to perform chemical cleaning based on factors like usage, tube sample deposits, and startup/shutdown frequency rather than solely on time since the last cleaning. Chemical cleaning causes less damage than mechanical cleaning, reduces cleaning time by half, and generates less waste material. Proper contractors should perform chemical cleaning following safety precautions.

1. Advantages of Chemical Cleaning Of Boilers
The process of cleaning can be completely chemical in function but can also be supported by
steam or turbulent water flow. In recent times several advancements have been found in the
process of boiler chemical cleaning operations.
Several chemical mixtures have been evolved to reduce the enhance foaming and in that place,
unbreakable emulsions have been created. In most of the reputed companies, the chemical
products use this leading technology.
You need to know when to clean
It is very important to know when to clean the boilers using chemical ingredients. Also,
improvements in boilers and also feedwater practices have helped to reduce the requirement for
chemical cleaning for several other utilities. The main way of knowing the time to clean is by the
usage of the utility.
Deposits that loads on tube samples
It is essential that more than two tube samples to be taken from high flux areas of the boiler and
to understand the deposit that is loaded inside the wall tube of water. It is considered as one of
the best ways to understand the need to start a boiler chemical cleaning process thinking that
there is no major contamination occurred since the last cleaning chemically.
Time-based cleaning is essential
Cleaning must be done on time either during the operational hours since the last time it got
cleaned this should not be the way to understand the need for the cleaning. Deposits do not
concentrate on boiler tube walls in a normal uniform rate in the period. Also, there are other
factors to be considered like frequency of a startup, shutdown of the boiler.
What are the advantages of chemical cleaning?
· You can do the cleaning without dismantling the entire equipment
· Chemical cleaning is always useful as it will have a uniform cleaning
· When the process of cleaning is done -, the damage which is caused by the process of
chemical cleaning is negligible and also very less than the conventional form of
cleaning.
· Chemical cleaning will help to reduce the time required for decontamination about
half of its level to productive operations faster than the method of mechanical
cleaning.
· Chemical cleaning generates less waste material than mechanical cleaning
Thus, as a whole, the process of chemical cleaning of the boiler should be only carried out of
the contractors who are well known about the procedure and can take proper safety precautions
to use the cleaning agents.