Corrosion is corrosion, regardless of the industry. Here's how we helped a municipality protect their steel water tanks by following a petroleum industry spec.
By Eric Wiseman |
Solution Spot
Epoxy-based coatings may be the gold standard for resinous flooring, but they have their issues. Here's how cementitious urethane coatings eliminate them.
Selecting the right water storage tank lining is all about context. Here are the three main questions to consider when searching for a water tank lining that suits your specific needs.
Carboline’s Technical Service team is often contacted by contractors, owners and specifiers looking for corrosion-resistant coating systems with high-performance characteristics for small carbon steel structures in exterior environments. These projects can...
Environmental conditions are vital to the life of a coating system—not just during application, but before and after the coating is applied as well. Conditions that fall outside of the recommended guidelines can have both an immediate and delayed adverse effect on the coating system.
Depending on the specific circumstances at hand, there’s a surprising level of variability in how the application process is performed and which types of industrial coating systems are best suited for the job. For instance, a fluorourethane or polysiloxane coating may be chosen for a water tank...
One common industry practice occurs when painters are preparing to apply industrial coatings for the first time. With catalyzed coatings, part A and part B are mixed together according to the instructions. Purely out of habit, a stir stick is then used to assess the consistency...
When it comes to linings for wastewater applications, concrete substrate has always been trickier than its steel cousin. This is largely because there are so many factors to consider—from concrete repair, laitance removal and new concrete cure times, to outgassing...
In simple terms, a secondary containment area is defined as the containment of a leak or spill of a commodity that is being held in a primary containment unit, such as a tank or vessel. In order to properly specify a secondary containment lining…
Serving a vital function in the local community, wastewater collection systems are designed with underground pipes and maintenance structures used to collect and convey wastewater away from homes and businesses to be treated…
Let’s start out by evaluating paint emissions. A good way to estimate total VOC emissions is in the same way that estimators price out a paint job. When evaluating different paint systems in a coating specification, estimators always ask two questions…
When I talk with asset owners about changing their coating specifications to lower VOC emissions, the topic of waterborne coatings inevitably pops up. The lines from a classic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, come to mind: “Water, water, everywhere...
In the industrial coatings world, there are few things worse than transporting freshly coated steel to a job site only to find significant damage to that coating upon arrival. Shipping steel members is hard on coatings systems—even cementitious ones.
Coatings recommendations are one of the most highly debated—and even misunderstood—aspects of the industrial coatings industry. Many different factors go into making the right selection. For instance, have you ever called a coatings…
Steel is the cornerstone of modern civilization—it’s strong, relatively inexpensive and lacks any viable alternatives. Some form of steel is used in virtually every modern structure, piece of equipment and vehicle.
Water, crude oil, sulfuric acid, caustic soda, ammonia, dimethylformamide, sodium acetate, gasoline, jet fuel, bleach, nitric acid, beer, toluene and brine—this is quite an extensive spread, but it’s only a fraction of the chemicals for which…
