About Carey Lift
Makers of the CareyLift Tube Bundle Lifting Devices
The CareyLift Tube Bundle Lifting Device will completely eliminate damage to expensive tube bundles as well as save time, money and labor in all areas of the entire refining industry: manufacturing, shipping, processing and maintenance.
With the CareyLift, one man can load or unload a 68,355 lb. tube bundle in under five minutes -- damage free.
CareyLifts are available in 6 models. The chart below will help your choose the CareyLift that is right for you.
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Tube Bundle Rolls
Refineries saving lives with Carey's TUBE BUNDLE ROLLS.
Refinery proven since 2003 at Chevron El Segundo, CA Carey Consulting 100% hydraulic Tube Bundle Rolls is now available trailer mounted. The Carey TBR handles bundles from 14" to 60" in diameter. With a variable turn speed 7 IPM to 70 IPM you can adjust your turn speed to optimize your spray intensity. 6 hydraulic lock-out safety switches control the operation. All six must be engaged to operate the TBR.
The TBR will handle a maximum tube bundle weight of up to 60,000 lb. Both 16 & 20 foot bundles or even 32 foot bundles with idlers can be handled by the Carey's TBR and safety stanchions are removable for inspection or cleaning of a bundle.
It is hard to imagine being without a Carey hydraulic Tube Bundle Rolls given the safety and increased productivity and efficiency a TBR brings to the cleaning process. TBRs are quoted based on configuration specifications: Stationary, Trailer Mounted or Portable Systems.
"CAREYLIFT"
MODEL 60
OUR MODEL 60 "CAREYLIFT" HANDLING A 60 INCH OD TUBE BUNDLE AT A CHEVRON REFINERY IN CALIFORNIA. THIS BUNDLE IS A 70/30 CUNI TUBE BUNDLE; PLEASE NOTE, NEVER ANY DAMAGE WHEN USING THE "CAREYLIFT"
Tube Book
Tubular Heat Exchanger Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair
McGraw-Hill
New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C.,
Auckland, Bogota, Caracas, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Montreal, New Delhi, San Juan, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto
Carl F. Andreone, P.E., FASME
Stanley Yokell, P.E., FASME
Bundle handling
If you do not handle the bundle properly, you may damage tubesheets, tube supports, baffles, tie-rods and spacers, dams, slide bars, seal bars, zone enclosures, and appurtenances. It requires great care and thought about how to bring a bundle to the ground or lift it from the ground to reinstall it into the shell. Nylon web slings that bear against tube supports or baffles are less likely to cause damage than are chain slings. If you must use chain slings, make sure they do not bear directly on the tubes, but on dunnage that traverses tube supports. For long bundles, use spreader bars, cradles, and pairs of cranes to limit flexing that can damage the tubes and tube-to-tubesheet joints.
An excellent way to handle bundles is to use the tube bundle lifting device. This device consists of parallel sets of curved arms that wrap around tubed fixed-tubesheet cages, U-tube bundles, pillbox bundles, and floating-head bundles. The arms open and close in a scissor action. When closed, they gently hug the bundle. The tube bundle lifting device is then picked up, bundle and all, and gently lowered to where it will be worked on or raised to where it will be installed.
*Available from Carey Consulting, Inc., Edmonton, KY.