Patent ID: 11934215
Assignee: STONEAGE, INC.
Field: Thermal processes and apparatus (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  F | IPC B  F  G

Claim 0:
1. A system for cleaning heat exchanger tubes comprising:
a fluid jet machine positioned proximate a heat exchanger to be cleaned; wherein, during performance of a cleaning operation, the fluid jet machine operatively connects to a pump which pumps fluid under high pressure through a nozzle on the fluid jet machine and into openings defined in a face plate of the heat exchanger;
a computing device which is hand-held by a human operator who is located in an immediate vicinity of the fluid jet machine;
programming installed in the computing device and operable to control the fluid jet machine and the cleaning operation via the hand-held computing device; wherein the programming is configured to learn a pattern of the openings defined in the face plate after a set-up procedure conducted on the hand-held computing device by the human operator, wherein the openings are arranged in an X-Y grid with each opening in the X-Y grid having X-Y coordinates, and wherein the pattern learned by the programming is the arrangement of the openings in the X-Y grid, and the programming utilizes the learned pattern to move the nozzle progressively from one opening to another during the performance of the cleaning operation.