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US 2026/0035803 A1Published application
Vapor-phase degreasing, cleaning, passivating, and/or descaling of processing equipment
OwnerGiselle Braganza, Aaron M. Beuterbaugh +1inventors
InventorsGiselle Braganza, Aaron M. Beuterbaugh, Jason Adam Denny
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Abstract
A method comprising: prior to commissioning of a processing equipment into service, cleaning and/or passivating a contact surface of the processing equipment with a vapor comprising a chemistry and a carrier, wherein cleaning comprises removing one or more contaminants from the contact surface and wherein passivating comprises creating a passive film on the contact surface. A method of vapor phase descaling is also provided.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- prior to commissioning of a processing equipment into service, cleaning and/or passivating a contact surface of the processing equipment with a vapor comprising a chemistry and a carrier, wherein cleaning comprises removing one or more contaminants from the contact surface and wherein passivating comprises creating a passive film on the contact surface.
A method comprising:
- providing a processing equipment prior to commissioning;
- utilizing vapor phase cleaning to remove one or more contaminants from a contact surface of the processing equipment, and/or utilizing vapor phase passivating to create a passive film on the contact surface of the processing equipment;
- and
- commissioning the processing equipment into service.
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A method comprising:
- performing maintenance cleaning of a processing equipment by removing scale from a contact surface of the processing equipment via vapor phase cleaning.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.