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Ultrasonic Cleaning for Marine

Seawater is the hardest service environment there is: salt, scale, marine growth and corrosion on one side, fuel and lubricant residues on the other — on components that must pass survey and go back into a hull where failure is not an option.

Misonics systems clean exchangers, injectors, pumps and seawater-side hardware to survey-ready condition, from 15-litre bench units for injector work to systems that take full coolers.

Prove It On Your Parts See What We Remove
The Contamination Problem

What we remove in marine

Salt & chloride deposits

Through every seawater-side circuit — the driver of pitting and crevice corrosion.

Marine growth & biofouling

On coolers, strainers, box coolers and hull-adjacent hardware.

Mineral & thermal scale

In exchangers and jacket-water circuits, cutting heat transfer.

Fuel & combustion residues

Coked injectors, fouled turbochargers and exhaust-side deposits.

Grease & lubricant films

Through stern gear, winch and deck-machinery components.

Engineer overhauling a marine diesel engine below decks
Engine overhaul below decks — injectors, coolers, valve gear and pump components come off marine diesels heavy with carbon and grease. Immersion ultrasonics returns them to inspection-ready without abrasion. — click to enlarge
The endpoint is a defined, repeatable process condition — cycle time, chemistry, concentration, frequency and temperature are recorded parameters, not operator judgement.
Components We Clean

Real parts, real materials

Engine & propulsion

Injectors, fuel pumps, turbochargers, cylinder components — combustion residues off precision fuel hardware.

InjectorsTurbosLiners

Heat transfer

Plate and shell exchangers, box coolers, charge-air coolers — growth and scale out of the pack.

Plate packsCoolersBundles

Seawater systems

Pumps, valves, strainers and fittings in bronze, CuNi and stainless — cleaned without galvanic damage.

PumpsValvesStrainers
Why Ultrasonics — And Why These Machines

Cavitation cleans geometry it cannot see

Bubble collapse at the liquid–metal boundary lifts contamination from passages, galleries and cavities without anything touching the surface. Nothing abrades, nothing embeds, no metal is removed.

GeneratorResonance held all shift

The VarioSonic G5 tracks the transducer array as temperature and load shift — conversion efficiency up to 95%.

Sound fieldSweep modulation

Eliminates standing-wave hot and cold zones across a loaded basket.

Process controlLogged, recipe-driven cycles

Stored recipes and logged cycles — audit evidence produced as a by-product of running.

Bath conditionFiltration & oil separation

Multi-stage filtration and weir oil capture hold results steady as the bath loads.

SupportOver-the-air diagnostics

Most faults identified — many resolved — without a site visit.

ConstructionBuilt to work hard

Heavy 316 stainless tanks, tested before despatch, every wearing part replaceable.

Equipment Fit

The machine follows the process

From manually loaded single-tank units to automated lines — and engineered systems where the catalogue ends.

MSX

Bench and workshop units for injector and pump service.

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EvoSonic

Heavy platforms for cooler and exchanger work.

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Custom

Tanks sized to full coolers and large fabrications.

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Chemistry

Matched to the soil and the substrate

Salt and scale respond to inhibited descaling chemistry; fuel residues to alkaline formulations — often a two-bath sequence, proven in the trial before the vessel schedule depends on it.

Applications Matrix

Component coverage at a glance

Component categorySpecific parts / assembliesCompatible materials
Fuel systemInjectors, pumps, valvesSteels, precision fits
TurbochargerRotors, housings, nozzle ringsNi alloys, steels
Heat transferPlate packs, tube bundles, box coolersTitanium, CuNi, aluminium-brass
SeawaterPumps, valves, strainersBronze, CuNi, stainless
Deck & stern gearWinch, windlass, stern componentsSteels, bronze
ElectricalConnectors, enclosuresPlated finishes, aluminium

Prove it on your parts

Where an application needs validation, we clean sample components in our laboratory, document the result, and specify the machine around the verified process. If ultrasonics is the wrong answer, the trial shows that too, and we will tell you.

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FAQ

What marine engineers ask us

Can plate exchangers be cleaned without opening every plate?
Plate packs are usually cleaned opened; tube bundles clean whole. The trial establishes which for your equipment.
Is it safe on CuNi and bronze?
Yes with inhibited chemistry — these alloys are standard marine work for us.
Can injectors be cleaned to service spec?
Cavitation restores spray-hole geometry without lapping; flow-test results decide, and the trial produces them.
What about survey documentation?
Logged cycles document the cleaning step for your survey and class records.
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