Hetero Pharmaceutical uses Vulcan to eliminate scaling from cooling tower evaporative condenser tubes
Hetero Pharmaceutical facilities have 35 cooling towers and before installing the Vulcan anti-scale device they experienced excessive scaling outside of the evaporative condenser tubes.
Model: Vulcan S250
Location: Telangana (India)
Installation Area: Cooling tower evaporative condenser tubes
Hetero is one of India’s leading generic pharmaceutical companies and is one of the world’s largest producer of anti-retroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. With more than 20 years of expertise in the pharmaceutical industry. Hetero’s strategic business areas include APIs, generics and bio-similars, and also offers custom pharmaceutical services to its partners around the world.
Without the Vulcan Anti-Scale System; Hetero Pharmaceutical cooling towers had mineral scale forming on the outside of the evaporative condenser tubes.
- The campus has 35 cooling towers
- Rust is cleaned every six months.
- Uses descaling chemical Sulphomic acid.
- Pumped with 2 kg pressure, 90 m³/h Main line pipe water is pumped with 3 kg pressure.
- The inlet pipe size is 8 inch MS pipe
- Water flow rate - 1,012 GPM water flow rate per hour
- Pipe - Mild Steel pipe
- Pipes in condensers are stainless steel pipe
Hetero Pharmaceutical contacts confirmed the electronic descaler to work as expected and found the device to be effective at managing their scale buildup.
