Impulse cleaning technology, the main subject of this paper, utilizes intense pressure waves, orders of magnitude more intense than acoustic cleaners.They provide Significantly more thorough and far reaching cleaning of heat transfer surfaces and have the ability to address more sticky deposits typically outside the range of acoustic cleaning capabilities. Impulse cleaning or detonation cleaning is not in reference to the use of dynamite or detonation cord, both of which occur offline and have significant risk
And liability associated with it. Impulse cleaning for boilers was derived from the research conducted in
An effort to develop a new propulsion system known as a pulse detonation engine (PDE). A PDE offers the potential for highly efficient propulsion. In most cases, the impulse or shock waves are created through the rapid combustion, or detonation, of a charge of fuel/oxidizer in such amanner todirect the resulting
Impulse wave into the heat transfer surface to be cleaned. The basis for this rapid combustion technology
Has roots deep within the aerospace research and development field where high--‐throughput, pressure--‐rise combustion has the potential to radically change the design of future propulsion systems. The process of creating a detonation consists of injecting a mixture of fuel and oxidizer into a chamber, igniting this mixture, transitioning the resulting combustion wave to a detonation wave, and then purging with air to prepare for the next cycle.