The Challenge: Dirty 30-meter smokestack at asphalt mixing plant

Keller Lufttechnik, air pollution control expert in Kirchheim/Teck near Stuttgart, is not limited to the design and sale of extraction systems. They are also on site when it comes to cleaning industrial components such as ductwork or chimneys, by maintaining them in proper operating condition for the long run. They can reliably perform even particularly challenging cleaning tasks such as those at Waggershauser.

To the success story

Industry
Road construction

Process
Asphalt production from bitumen and aggregates

Task
Cleaning a 30-meter smokestack at the asphalt mixing plant

Solution
Using a mobile crane, the experts raised and lowered a rotary scrubbing nozzle into the chimney. Under water pressure at 1,000 bar, the cleaning device successfully removed the internal build-up from the walls.