Tanker Truck Cleaning with High Pressure Cleaning Heads

The high pressure cleaning heads comprises of a tubular body whose one end may be connected to a hose. The other end of the head consists of nozzles with holes that let out a sharp jet of water. The heads are mostly hemispheric allowing a wide angle for cleaning. It is this part of the head that consists of the nozzles. The heads can be swung angularly to allow the water jet to reach all parts of the container. This allows the user to be positioned in a comfortable position. These high pressure cleaning heads are specially customized for tanker truck cleaning.

The following information should be taken into consideration prior to ordering these high-pressure cleaning heads for tanker truck cleaning.

  • The size of the truck
  • The substance in the tank to be cleaned.
  • Horsepower, gallons per minute, PSI, etc of the pressure washer the cleaning head is to be used with.
  • Size of the access area or duct.

There are a variety of pressure washers that are used to provide different types of tanker truck cleaning solutions. The heads are designed to clean tanker trucks whose container’s diameter is or can be a maximum of 15’. Most of them are made of stainless steel while some are made of silicon bronze. This helps to carry various chemicals through the head without causing any corrosion. They are designed to carry both hot and cold water. They are available with self spinning heads to provide faster and better cleaning. The speed in which these heads spin depends on the pressure of water. There are some heads that spin 360° in both vertical and horizontal planes. This provides thorough cleaning of tanker tanks as it covers the whole interior of the in one single cycle. There are bearings inside the head that allow it to spin smoothly and some of them are self lubricating. Various heads are available for large, medium and small sized tanker trucks. The tankers can either have open containers or closed ones. There are heads available that can fit in through access areas as small as 3 inch.

For large tanker truck cleaning there are power washer heads with maximum PSI up to 2900 and the gallons per minute varying from 52.8 to 2.1. The maximum temperature these heads can withstand is 194°F. These outlets of these heads have small nozzles (maximum four) that allow water to flow in pressure. The smaller the nozzles the more is the pressure. The heads are available with a variety of sizes to suit the customer’s needs. The inlet from the hose is either of 1” or ½”. Some of these serve the purpose of both open and closed containers. There are other heads with lower maximum PSI up to 435. Some of the heads may require to be lubricated from time to time while some do not need lubrication at all. The type of lubrication required could be either oil or wash fluid lubrication. These heads are best used for tanker trunk cleaning of trucks used for carrying chemicals, beverages, pharmaceutical products and food processing material.

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