Ultra-High Pressure Hydroblasting & Cutting
Our highly customized and automated systems utilize water pressure up to 40,000 psi for safe effective cleaning, surface prep, cutting and demolition.
- Services
- Hydroblast, Vacuum & Big Pump
- Ultra-High Pressure Hydroblasting & Cutting
Benefits of Ultra-High Pressure Hydroblasting
The dynamics of high-speed, pulsating water from ultra-high pressure hydroblasting produce incredible benefits for industrial cleaning, surface preparation, and cutting applications. The energy generated by the USP water jet exceeds the bonding energy of even the most adherent scales, coatings, or process contamination.
Our metal cutting system uses the same technology and provides an extremely safe, cold cut alternative to conventional oxyacetylene cutting methods.
Reduce Your Downtime
Specially designed equipment, automated tooling, and a vast number of different nozzle configurations increase the ways you benefit. UHP water blasting reduces downtime, and improves safety performance. You will get the ultimate in reduced downtime and improved safety and precision. We engineer a custom job design with experienced employees and specialty automated equipment.
We also provide the responsiveness you need with minimized travel time. Our teams and equipment are highly mobile and available throughout our vast geographical service area.
Unmatched expertise and experience.
Ultra-High Pressure Hydroblasting CUTTING Applications
- Doorsheets & Manways
- Pipe & Rebar
- Process lines and reactors
- Tank, pipe & concrete demolition
- Exchangers
- Columns & Smoke stacks
- Holes/Manways in concrete tanks
- Safe and automated cutting in low LEL explosive environments
Your Go-To Team for Reactor & Regenerator Head Removal
Ultra-high pressure (40K) hydroblasting is the ideal way to remove vessel heads, and Thompson does is with safety, precision and speed. Why choose Thompson for your next inspection or repair?
- We safely hydrocut with ultra-high pressure without having to remove the refractory.
- Because Thompson’s hydrocutting process is safe to perform in volatile, explosive environments, it can be performed prior to completely purging all surrounding atmospheric conditions.
- Precision is in the details – engineered job design, experienced employees and specialty equipment.
- Unmatched expertise and experience. You will work directly with Jack Lovett, a pioneer in the business with decades of vessel head removal, and innovator behind the “JackTrack” automated UHP cutting technology.
Engineered job design, experienced employees and specialty equipment.
Benefits
Elimination of Metal Surface Degradation
Low Water Usage minimal disposal costs
Little to no environmental risk
No Fire Hazards
Reduced Downtime
Increased “up” production time between cleanings
Enhanced safety with numerous automated capabilities
Elimination of Airborne Contaminants
More Efficient Cleaning
No Heat Deformation
Weld-Prep Finishes
Ideal in a flammable atmosphere where a torch cannot be used
Simultaneously cuts through steel and refractory
Applications
Hard deposit & paint removal, plus lead paint abatement
Floor cleaning, stripping & scarification
Non-skid coating removal (ships)
Boiler tube striping for NDT inspections
Heat Exchanger cleaning
Pre-commisiong pipe cleaning
Tank & pressure vessel cleaning
Process line & reactor cleaning
Surface preparation & profiling
Refractory & rubber lining removal
Scales, coatings & epoxy removal
Vapor, polymer, & resin lines cleaning
Case Study
Problem
A major chemical plant required 40K surface prep of 3 miles of weld seams inside a vessel so the plant could perform the crucial NDT inspection of welds.
Solution
Thompson’s ultra-high pressure surface prep executed by our expert UHP team.
Result
Thompson’s 40K methods worked considerably faster than the traditional hand-held “buffer/light grinder” wheel or sand blasting to prepare the weld so the impurities did not interfere with the inspection process. The client noted that, “Thompson’s services came in under budget, with zero incidents, and saved 5 days off of our outage schedule.”
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