Exchangers
FOURÉ LAGADEC has vast experience in exchanger maintenance.
Our teams can handle operations including disassembly, high pressure cleaning, expert evaluations and on-site exchanger repairs at our customers' manufacturing facilities.
Our shops offer retubing and construction of heat exchanger bundles.
- On-site disassembly of bundles
- High pressure cleaning
- Hydrostatic testing
- Reassembly
FL TMT Industrie, a group subsidiary specializing in assembly and disassembly of heat exchanger bundles and industrial cleaning for shutdowns, has a high pressure cleaning area and an effluent treatment station both approved for environmental protection.
It also has specialized equipment for on-site or in-shop cleaning :
- Self-propelled, freestanding, hanging exchanger bundle extractor
- Lifting devices with capacities ranging from 2.5 to 60 tons
- Cleaning bench, multi-rod cleaning bench, and pumps for high pressure cleaning
- High pressure pump equipped with pressure vessel and pipe cleaning systems
In-shop or on-site exchanger retubing
As an industry leader in France, FOURÉ LAGADEC has workshops located in Le Havre, Berre l'étang and Lyon, that are specially equipped for partial or total retubing for all types of heat exchanger tube bundles. These resources enable FOURÉ LAGADEC to handle large quantities of bundles quickly, especially during unit shutdowns.
Expanded or welded tubes made of different metals :
- Carbon steel
- Alloy steel
- Stainless steel
- Copper alloy
Tubes in stock
- Materials: TU37C, Z10CD505
- Dimensions: 3/4''and 1'' diameters; 10.12.14.16 gauge
Cooling towers
In-shop or on-site partial or total retubing :
- Repair of back seating
- Replacement of plugs for repairs
Manufacturing and on-site assembly of cooling towers
Industrial boilers/steam generators
Coordinating scaffolding, insulation, cleaning and boiler mechanics work
Regular visits to and requalification of steam generators :
- Overhaul of valves and fittings and boiler cleaner
- Visits and maintenance of rotating machines
- Reconditioning of casing, boiler mechanics, burners and boiler cleaners
Boiler retubing
- Partial or complete retubing of pressurized parts: convection bundles, radiation walls, superheaters, economizers
- Prefabrication of pressurized parts
- Tubes maintained in stock
Furnaces
Furnace maintenance: distillation, steam crackers, steam reformer
Retubing :
- Convection bundles
- Radiation bundles
- Metallurgy: 4/6% Cr, 9% Cr, 13% Cr, Manaurite, HK40
Reconditioning of boiler mechanics
Burner surveys
Reactors
- Opening/closing
- Catalyst suction and cleaning
- Metallurgy work and boiler mechanics work
- Hydrostatic tests
FCC / catalytic cracker
In-shop prefabrication of internal FCC elements, including :
- Cyclones
- Diplegs,
- Diplegs valves,
- Plenum chamber,
- Riser,
- "U" Bend - "J" Bend,
- Overflow,
- Stellite hard-facing process
- Setting of Hexmetal (304H - 410 S)
- Refractory concrete application
- Oven drying
We keep 304 H sheets in stock
We also perform a variety of operations at reactor sites including :
- Supervision of worksite shutdowns: preparation, planning, coordination and management of various trades, security and quality organization
- Metallurgy work: replacing or overhauling internal equipment on reactors and regenerators
- Catalyst removal and cleaning
- Lifting
- Scaffolding and insulation
- Boiler mechanics work
Drums and columns
- Opening/closing
- Metallurgy
- Replacement of internal equipment
- Hydrostatic tests
