Belzona Provides A Second Life To This Cooling Tower

Industry:

Steel (STEL)

Application:

Tanks and Chemical Containment Areas (TCC)

Customer Location:

Metal processing plant, France

Application Date:

May 2018

Application Situation:

Heat Exchanger - acid cooling tower. Operating pressure of 1 bar and temperature between 30 and 50C.

Problem:

External corrosion leading to significant wall thinning and localised through wall defects.  

Products:

Belzona 1221 (Super E-Metal)

Belzona 1121 (Super XL-Metal)

Belzona 5811 (Immersion Grade)

Substrate:

Carbon Steel

Application Method:

Application was carried out in accordance with Belzona Know-How System Leaflet TCC-5.

Belzona Facts:

Two towers were suffering from the same problem at the same time: through wall defects due to corrosion. The customer had one spare ready (costing 90,000€) but could not afford to wait for a replacement one being given the 8 months lead time. The Belzona repair was completed in 4 days by a team of 3 technicians. The tower was put back in service within 72 hours.  The Belzona repair (products + application) did cost one-third of the replacement cost (30,000€).  

Photographs Description

1 - The cold bonding of metal plate to patch up thin areas

2 - Wrap in progress

3 - Wrap completed

4 - Coating for further corrosion protection