Help with Water Jetting Equipment and Water Blasters specifications:
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| Complete Machine / System | Complete system with all of the components required for the blasting or jet machining applications such as pressure generation/intensification, cabinets, nozzles or wheels, and dust collectors. | ||
| Component / Accessory | A blast or jet machine part or component that can be used to build a system or replace a worn or broken component. | ||
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System Options / Component Types
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| Abrasive Injector | Optional system component used to move abrasives from a storage vessel to the nozzle, gun, head or wheel. Abrasive injectors can convert a water jetting system into an abrasive blaster. The injection or metering system controls the amount of abrasive pushed into the air stream. In large systems, the delivery system and injection system may be separate components. | ||
| Pressure Generator / Pump | Pressure generators increase the pressure of the carrier fluid (water or air). Plunger-type intensifier pumps are commonly used to generate high-pressure water for water jet cutting, wet, or water abrasive blasting, and non-abrasive pressure washing or rinsing. Crankshaft-driven plunger pumps are also used for pressure generation. These plunger pumps may be more efficient than intensifiers in terms of electrical energy costs, but at high pressures (>20,000 psi) the seals must be replaced periodically. Crankshaft-driven plunger pumps also provide a virtually ripple-free pressure source when compared to intensifiers. An accumulator may be required to smooth out pressure fluctuations if an intensifier pump is used. In air-based blast or jet systems, air compressors are typically used to generate pressure. | ||
| Blast Cabinet / Enclosure | Blast cabinets are a glovebox-like vessel that holds the workpiece and contains blasting or cleaning process. Blast cabinets usually consist of a chamber with glove ports, viewing window and internal lighting. The workpieces rest on an open grid that allows used water or water-cleaning agent mixtures to drop through for recycling or disposal. | ||
| Blasting Room / Booth | Blast rooms or enclosed blasting booths contain the blasting process when blasting larger workpieces. Blast cabinets usually consist of a room with internal lighting that holds both the workpiece and the operator. The operator may hold the blasting nozzle on the end of a lance. The workpieces rest on open grid flooring that allows blast water and removed debris to drop through for recycling or disposal. | ||
| Water Gun / Lance | The gun or lance is directs the stream water through a nozzle and at the appropriate region of the workpiece. | ||
| Water Tank / Hopper | Tank or hopper for storage of water, cleaning agents, blasting media or abrasive-water slurry mixtures. | ||
| Other | Other unlisted, specialized, or proprietary component. | ||
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Specifications
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| Blast / Jet Pressure: | The pressure of the water or air used to create the high intensity jet or blast stream for cleaning or surface preparation operations. | ||
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| Water Flow: | Volume of water/coolant consumed per unit time by the machine. | ||
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| Power | Mechanical motor power required for driving the pumps or compressors on the machine. | ||
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Machine Mounting
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| Bench / Pedestal | The machine is small enough or has features for mounting on a bench or pedestal. | ||
| Crawler / Track | Water blasting, waterjet or jet head mounted on crawlers or tracks. Crawlers are small vehicles that grab onto a surface with magnetic or vacuum feet mounted on a set of tracks. Track mounted units use a track to guide the jet head across the surface. The track is mounted to the tank or vessel to be cut or blasted with vacuum or magnetic clamps. Crawler or track based blasters or cutters are used on large surfaces such as the side of a steel tank, ship's hull, vehicle or building wall, the blast stream or abrasive jet is presented to and scanned or guided across the surface for cutting or cleaning. Crawler or track mounted can uniformly clean or roughen a surface by scanning a surface in a controlled and repeatable fashion. Track, robotic arm or crawler mounted jet cutters are also useful in hazardous situations such as in disarming a bomb or mine. | ||
| Cart / Hand Truck | The machine can be mounted on or built into a cart or hand truck. | ||
| Floor / Skid | The machine can be mounted on the floor or a skid in a freestanding position. | ||
| Handheld | The gun or lance is handheld and directed at the parts to guide the water blast stream. | ||
| Portable Machine | The machine is capable of being carried or transported to the worksite, plant or field area requiring blasting or jet cutting. The machine is not designed for fixed location. | ||
| Robotic / Articulated Arm | Robotic arms can uniformly clean or roughen a surface by scanning a surface in a controlled and repeatable fashion. Jet cutter mounted on crawlers or robotic arms are also useful in hazardous situations such as in disarming a bomb or mine. | ||
| Trailer / Vehicle | The machine can be mounted on or built into a trailer or vehicle. The trailer or vehicle is driven or towed to the worksite requiring blasting or jet cutting such as the side of a steel tank, ship's hull or building wall. | ||
| Other | Other unlisted, specialized, or proprietary machine mounting type. | ||
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Features
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| Cleaning / Surface Preparation | Machines used to refine, roughen, or clean (remove paint, grease, rust) a surface to meet surface finish requirements or to prepare the surface for additional processing. | ||
| Cutting / Sectioning | Machines capable of sectioning or cutting a pattern out of sheet or plate materials. | ||
| Demolition / Hydrodemolition | Demolition is the destruction of structures or walls constructed of building materials. Hydrodemolition usually refers to the destruction of concrete structures or walls. | ||
| Descaling / Stripping | Descaling is the removal of heat-treat scale, surface discoloration, oxides, rust, weld scale, or corrosion that ruins appearance and interferes with welding, painting, plating, coating, drawing, and other processes. Stripping is the removal of an existing protective coating or paint layer to facilitate welding, recoating or adhesive joining. | ||
| Tube Bundle / Vessel Cleaning | Equipment designed for cleaning the interiors of process vessel or the tube IDs in condensers or heat exchangers (tube bundles). | ||
| Other | Other unlisted, specialized, or proprietary processes or operations. | ||
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| Materials Cleaned: | |||
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| Metal | Any of a broad category of elements that usually have a shiny surface and grayish color, are good conductors of electricity and heat, can be melted or fused, hammered into thin sheets, or drawn into wire. Common metals include, steel, copper, gold, silver, tin, iron, lead, aluminum, and magnesium. | ||
| Wood | Wood or lumber is a natural, organic based composite material consisting of cellulose fibers imbedded in a lignin matrix. Wood products such as particleboard or plywood consist of wood particles or veneers bonded with phenolic or other organic adhesive resins. | ||
| Plastic | Any of numerous organic, synthetic, or processed materials that are mostly thermoplastic or thermosetting polymers of high molecular weight and that can be made into objects, films, or filaments. | ||
| Ceramic / Carbide | Ceramics and refractories have high melting points and hardness. Ceramics are suitable for applications requiring wear resistance, high temperature strength, electrical, or thermal insulation or other specialized characteristics. | ||
| Concrete / Masonry | Masonry can be a mixture of stone, brick, or concrete blocks laid or bonded with mortar, fasteners or other adhesives. Concrete and mortars are mixtures of a binder and aggregate (natural stone or process minerals). Mortar usually contains finer aggregates than a concrete mixture. Stone or rock is any concentrated earthy or mineral matter. Granite is a hard natural igneous rock consisting chiefly of quartz, orthoclase or microcline, and mica. Marble is a metamorphic rock formed by the alteration of limestone. Building materials consist of concrete, stone and masonry as well as glass, metal and wood. | ||
| Glass | Glass is a large class of materials with variable mechanical and optical properties that is formed by cooling from a molten state without crystallization. Glass is a hard, brittle material consisting of a mixture of silicates that is usually transparent or translucent. It is considered to be a cooled liquid rather than a true solid. | ||
| Other | Other unlisted or specialized materials. | ||
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| Rotary Nozzle | Rotary or rotating nozzle distributes the force of the jet over larger area. | ||
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| Heated Water / Steam | The machine uses a heated water supply or steam to enhance cleaning and surface preparation operations. | ||
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| Multiple Nozzles? | Machines employing or capable of driving multiple nozzles for multi-nozzle heads or multiple operators. | ||
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