Infrastructure

Fouling on for example locking doors causes requires costs-intensive cleaning in order to keep the doors working. Lifting a fouling locking door is hardly possible. Thorn-D® prevents fouling on the locking doors and can easily be applied.

Heat Exchangers
Traditionally undesired growth of organisms in heat exchanger inlets, a.o. in use in process industries, is prevented by using biocides. MICANTI has developed a technology to prevent biofouling in an ecological way.

The direct costs of biofouling consist of the costs for preventing the growth of organisms and the increase of energy needed for higher flow rates to keep the heat transfer on the right level (faster flow, higher flow resistance). Very often the design of the heat exchangers will be chosen larger and more expensive, to take into account the decreased heat exchange due to fouling.

Other costs resulting from biofouling, like material damage due to corrosion and wear, failed equipment or bad quality of the production, are not so easy to calculate, because of their indirect effect. However, it is clear that biofouling is a key component in equipment deterioration.