Surface Preparation

Latest Surface Preparation Articles

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  Prevention

  Gas Pipelines: Internal Corrosion Protection and Fire Prevention

  Most gas pipelines are used for transporting and distributing natural gas from gas fields to consumer installations and homes. This gas is extracted from rocky reserves...

  By: Shivananda Prabhu

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  Corrosion Prevention

  Tightrope: Identifying Limiting Conditions for Coatings Specification

  In writing coating specifications, it is essential to understand and include all of the limiting conditions at a specific site where maintenance painting is to be done...

  By: Mark Davidson, Eng.

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  Failure

  A Monstrous Coating Failure and How We Fixed It

  What happens when an aging oil tanker is converted to a floating production and storage operation (FPSO), and then is put in service 12 additional years over the...

  By: Louis D. Vincent | Owner, L.D. “Lou” Vincent PHD LLC

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  Coatings

  Coating Holidays & Pinholes: Chinks in the Armor

  Traditionally, armor is considered only as strong as its weakest point, highlighting the significant dangers of any subsequent breach. A chink in one’s body armor...

  By: Thomas Belli, B.A.

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  Surface Preparation

  Wet Abrasive Blasting: An Overview of Surface Cleaning Alternatives

  Restoration of steel and concrete surfaces has relied heavily on sandblasting and other dry blasting techniques. For over a century, dry blasting has been an effective,...

  By: Wade Hannon and Bryce Gapinski

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  Coatings

  Precautions for Marine Coatings Applied Above the Waterline

  Ships and offshore assets have areas with an inherently higher corrosion risk than other areas of the same structure. These areas merit special attention during their...

  By: Shivananda Prabhu

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  Corrosion Prevention

  An Introduction to Corrosion Inhibiting Dry Film Lubricants

  From a lubrication point of view, extreme operational conditions may not commonly occur in every industry, but in some sectors such as defense and aerospace they are...

  By: Shivananda Prabhu

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  Procedures

  How Industry Teamwork Can Reduce Coating Failures

  Manufacturers within the protective coatings and linings industry recognize that an unacceptably high percentage of the projects, to which we supply our products, fail...

  By: David Blackwell | Engineering Director, Belzona Polymerics Ltd

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  Soluble Salts

  Removing Soluble Salts to Prevent Coating Failures

  This article offers a proven way to remove soluble salts, which are a leading cause of premature coating failures when residual surface salts are not removed during...

  By: Hap Peters | Managing Director, CHLOR RID International, Inc.

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  Corrosion Prevention

  Field Results: Improving Water System Efficiency & Corrosion Resistance

  Minimizing performance deterioration of equipment is an important factor for pump manufacturers and end users in the water and energy industries. Indeed, hydraulic...

  By: Alice Jucquois, MSc.

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  Corrosion

  Understanding the Role of Soluble Salts in Coatings Failures

  Due to the complexity of the mechanisms of salt-induced corrosion under coatings, much of which is still theory, there are many interpretations and assumptions made to...

  By: Hap Peters | Managing Director, CHLOR RID International, Inc.

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  Prevention

  Specifying the Gold Standard for Color and Protection

  Where color is required along with corrosion protection, the most widely specified paint coating system consists of a blast-cleaned surface, a zinc-rich primer and an...

  By: Rob Francis | Consultant, Aurecon Materials Technology Group