Xmas eve HX project.

[huffdawg]

Cleaning up the plates for my DHW heat exchanger.

 

[__dan]

Looks big enough for 50 bedrooms.

Merry Christmas

 

[huffdawg]

Looks big enough for 50 bedrooms.

Merry Christmas

Or 2 daughters having showers, Lol.

And a Merry xmas to you

 

[Bob Rohr]

That is one heck of a HX. Do you have to clean it occasionally? I've been told that oversizing a plate HX can drop the channel velocities and the tend to lime up more frequently??

 

[tom in maine]

That is an awesome heat exchanger. Your HX cleaning is somehow in keeping with the season. I started the holiday plunging drains slowed with slime mold on Christmas morning.
We live right!

Have a Merry Christmas!
Nothing like clean HX and drains to make the day merry!

 

[Kelster]

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Cleaning up the plates for my DHW heat exchanger.

I worked for an HVAC Service Co for many years and we would use an industrial version of CLR and pressure wash the plates. Be careful when putting them back together that you don't put plates in backwards.

That's a lot of heat exchanger for DHW [emoji2]

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[huffdawg]

I have to come clean guys .. I pulled a 14 hour Gyrd shift at work last night . That HX is a cooler for Cat 3512b. It was the annual cleaning, the cooling media is sea water, they get plugged up pretty good with sea weed ,slime etc. I've cleaned dozens of them over the years . And yes Kelster we use CLR and pressure washer, they don't work to well if you get the plates mixed up. A little frigid up where you are -22c.

Merry Xmas Everyone

 

[Kelster]

That's a decent sized engine. Sea water cooling - there's a missed opportunity. Too bad you can't find something useful for that heat.

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[huffdawg]

Ya we have thought about using it to heat the lounges and some of machinery spaces.. But the powers that be need the money for their bonuses and wage hikes.