Conveyor Through Tunnel Parts Washer For (AC) Compressors Parts

Tunnel washers are also called conveyor belt cleaning machines, inline cleaners, pass-through washers，and conveyor cleaners.

During the manufacturing of air conditioning compressors, the interfaces of stamped iron housings are brazed to copper tubes (including suction and discharge pipes). This process not only forms refrigerant inlet and outlet channels but also ensures the hermetic sealing of the joints.

Brazing leaves various contaminants on the workpiece surfaces. Failure to completely remove these contaminants will seriously compromise the operational stability and service life of the compressors.

To address this issue, the aforementioned equipment is a tunnel-type automatic cleaning system custom-designed and manufactured by GTK Company exclusively for world-renowned air conditioning compressor manufacturers

What is Automated Tunnel Washer

This is a fully automatic cleaning machine cater to meet high-volume production cleaning requirements. it is suitable for cleaning different shaped parts in bulk, pipes, and metal hardware. Tunnel machine uses a high-pressure water pump to deliver cleaning fluid with specified detergent to the nozzles, creating  high-pressure spray that cover all areas of the cleaning parts surface, thus eliminate stubborn contaminants such as chips, oils, grease, chips, buffing compounds, carbon deposits and other particulates .

Why Use Tunnel Type Cleaning Machines

The reason why tunnel (conveyor) type cleaning systems have become popular equipment is that enterprises nowadays choose automated production, this enables full-process automated handling, high-volume cleaning, reduces labor input, improves cleaning efficiency, and solves cleaning challenges. This conveyor belt spay washer is used in numerous applications such as space, metalworking, metal preparation, aerospace and automotive.

How does Tunnel Washer work?

This equipment operates by manually pouring workpieces onto the equipment’s feeding area. The conveyor belt then automatically conveys the workpieces to the high-pressure spray area for 360° high-pressure spray rinsing, which washes off a large amount of oil stains, dirt, dust and impurities from the surface of the workpieces.

The washed-off contaminants are processed through the equipment’s circulating filtration system and oil-water separation system. After cleaning, the workpieces undergo air knife drying and hot air drying to ensure the dryness of the cleaned workpieces; subsequently, the workpieces automatically slide down into the discharging container.

The discharge port is equipped with an emergency stop button and a photoelectric sensor, which automatically stops the conveyance when no one is picking up the workpieces.

Cleaning Process for Air Conditioning Compressor Parts

  • It is hard to clean the brazing flux on the air conditioning compressor, but this problem can be solved through the cleaning process of a special cleaning detergent combined with high-temperature soaking and intensive ultrasonic cleaning.
  • During the cleaning process, strictly control the concentration of the cleaning detergent and temperature to ensure the effectiveness and consistency of cleaning.
  • After the parts surface undergoes high-temperature cleaning, contaminants are loosened. With the aid of the cleaning detergent, it then enters high-pressure spray cleaning, removing all the residual cleaning detergent and contaminants from the surface of compressor
  • Then high-pressure spray anti-rust rinsing is performed to provide anti-rust protection for the product surface.
  • Use air knifing to quickly remove moisture from the product surface, preventing oxidation of the surface.
  • Hot air drying is applied to thoroughly dry the product.

For more details, please contact us – any size can be custom-manufactured with no additional design. charge.