Across the board, equipment maintenance is essential to operate at peak efficiency and safety. However, some equipment is extremely costly-in the price on the related invoices and the time and means-on which to perform maintenance. The price of the maintenance, equipment, and shutdowns of any stage of operations adds up to a significant value more often than not, making it difficult to fit maintenance for certain equipment into a budget. Water tanks, towers, and basins of all kinds see maintenance, such as cleaning and inspections, regularly delayed due to this, with some plants failing to clean tanks for decades, often opting to build new structures than maintain the standing ones. Meanwhile, sediment build up is damaging the production process. Process water tanks perform less capably and add contaminants when not properly cleaned. Cooling towers cannot function with too much buildup. Firewater tanks can run dangerously low if too much sediment is allowed to collect in them. Quite simply, an uncleaned water unit is an inefficient-or ineffective-unit.
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