Since 2014, INREI Industriereinigung und Service GmbH has been conducting extensive tests in collaboration with one of Germany’s largest turbine manufacturers to optimise gas turbine cleaning. This development work has played a key role in improving our cleaning processes from a technical perspective and making them significantly more efficient and cost-effective for our customers.
Professional gas turbine cleaning – efficient, precise and at the cutting edge of technology
Superior results with Garnet abrasives
Our blasting tests showed that garnet delivers significantly better cleaning results compared to conventional glass beads. The advantages:
- » faster and more cost-effective cleaning
- » lower surface roughness
- » optimal preparation for inspection procedures
Glass bead blasting proved particularly disadvantageous for surface crack inspections, as it reduces defect detectability. Garnet, on the other hand, enables precise, gentle and inspection-ready cleaning – a decisive advantage for the maintenance of modern gas turbines.
Best practices – used worldwide
Using our optimised cleaning process, we serve customers both at home and abroad, including numerous market leaders in the energy and turbine sectors. Despite our successful track record, we are constantly refining our processes in order to further reduce maintenance costs and downtime for our customers.
Flexible working – on-site or at our premises
Whether directly at your power station or at our own facility, we clean gas turbine components in a flexible manner to meet your specific requirements. Our aim is to provide the optimal solution for every turbine and every situation.
Why a professional partner is essential
Gas turbine cleaning is one of the most demanding areas of industrial surface treatment. Errors in the selection of blasting parameters can have serious consequences – ranging from inadequate cleaning to damaged or non-inspectable components.
In practice, experience shows that there are at least 15 different blasting materials to choose from – each with its own properties, hardness levels and specific areas of application. In addition, grit sizes, operating pressures, air volumes and nozzle configurations vary, and these must be precisely tailored to the respective turbine component. Even a single incorrectly selected parameter can have significant consequences, because:
- » unsuitable blasting media significantly prolong the cleaning time
- » incorrect grain sizes or hardness levels can damage surfaces
- » incorrect settings may render components uninspectable
- » Damaged components must be repaired or replaced – at a correspondingly high cost in terms of time and money
Our expertise ensures that all parameters are perfectly matched. For you, this means: maximum safety, reproducible results and no unnecessary downtime. Professional blasting protects your components – and saves time and money.
Before and After Examples
In use worldwide – with expertise that counts on every construction site
Our specialised turbine cleaning processes are not only used by German customers, but are also highly regarded worldwide. Thanks to our decades of experience working in national and international power stations, we know exactly how construction sites are organised, which processes need to run smoothly, and what really matters to our customers.
Thanks to this extensive experience, we can respond flexibly to varying conditions, work efficiently and consistently meet the high quality and safety standards our customers expect. This practical understanding makes us a reliable partner – regardless of where in the world we are working on behalf of our customers.
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