Protective Organic Coatings
Protective Organic Coatings – An Introduction Emmanuel Pimentel Painting is the application of a liquid coating to a material to protect it. It is considered the oldest method of corrosion...
7th August 2012Protecting the Protection
Protecting the Protection: What can Patent Filing Trends Tell us About Technology Trends in Corrosion Treatments? 20,000 global patent families (containing 60,000 patents in total) filed in the area of...
7th August 2012Mild Steel Pipeline Weld Corrosion
Mild Steel Pipeline Weld Corrosion This article is based on a presentation by Igor Chaves of the 2012 ACA Road Show Seminars. Welding is widely recognized as a powerful and...
7th August 2012Loy Yang Chimney Cappings
Loy Yang Chimney Cappings The stainless steel flue cappings on top of one of the main exhaust stacks at Victoria’s largest Power Station Loy Yang Power were suffering from extremely...
7th August 2012Swansea Bridge Rehabilitation
Swansea Bridge Rehabilitation Mohammad Ali, GHD Swansea bridge, constructed circa 1989, is a high profile opening bridge on the Pacific Highway at Swansea, NSW (refer Figure 1). Due to harsh...
7th August 2012Protective Coating of the Gates on the Ord River Diversion Dam
Protective Coating of the Gates on the Ord River Diversion Dam Michael Harrington – McElligott Partners Pty Ltd The initial contract included the refurbishment of four gates previously identified as...
7th August 2012Hot Dip Galvanizing An Introduction
Hot Dip Galvanizing – An Introduction Emmanuel Pimentel The hot dip galvanizing process is relatively simple compared to most other corrosion protection systems and it is this simplicity that makes...
7th August 2012Concrete Mine Thickener Tank Repaired with Hybrid CP
Concrete Mine Thickener Tank Repaired with Hybrid Cathodic Protection Ian Godson & Luke Thompson – Infracorr Consulting Pty Ltd In November 2010 Infracorr Consulting Pty Ltd (formerly Ian Godson &...
31st July 2012Restoring the Pride of an Australian Icon
Restoring the Pride of an Australian Icon Nour Nwiran, Structural Systems Structural Systems (Contractor) in conjunction with Diagnostech (Superintendent) were engaged on behalf of the NSW Office of Environment and...
31st July 2012Neptune champions of ACFM in Australia
Neptune Champions Alternating Current Field Measurement (ACFM) in Australia T. Cunningham (Inspections Manager), A.Leslie (NDT Inspector – ACFM) & D.Marr (NDT Inspector – ACFM). Neptune – Asset integrity Services. At...
31st July 2012Designing for Corrosion Protection
Designing for Corrosion Protection – Part 2 Emmanuel Pimentel In the previous discussion, various common traps for steel designers that can compromise corrosion protection were examined. This theme is continued...
31st July 2012Engineered Maintenance of Newcastle Port Wharf Structures
Engineered Maintenance of Newcastle Port Wharf Structures Warren Green, Vinsi Partners Consulting Engineers, Sydney Scott Bacon, Newcastle Port Corporation Brad Dockrill, Vinsi Partners Consulting Engineers, Newcastle Exporting over 103 million...
31st July 2012Salt Fog Testing
Salt Fog Testing Monty Luke, Principal Metallurgist – Bureau Veritas Asset Integrity and Reliability Services Pty Ltd It is over seventy years since the specifications of the neutral salt fog...
31st July 2012Energy savings in the HVAC environment
Energy savings in the HVAC environment Ray Van Haven, GM – Blygold Oceania As most facility managers are aware of, operating your HVAC equipment accounts for 40-70% of their energy bill....
31st July 2012Tiger stripe effect
The Tiger Stripe effect observed when MIC occurs at welds of stainless steel vessels containing stagnant water L.H. Boulton, Nickel Institute Consultant, New Zealand It has been observed over years...
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