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Abstract

The pipelines that are used for transporting sea water to desalination plants are made of expensive steel alloys. However because of the salt content in water and also other atmospheric factors this pipe undergoes severe corrosion problem. This causes pits and holes in pipe surface making it useless and lead to huge replacement cost of pipes. Hence a way to control corrosion is needed.

In this project use of different coatings to overcome corrosion is tested experimentally. Five types of coatings namely epoxy, aluminum, enamel, rubber, and chrome are coated on the samples prepared from actual pipeline used in the plant and the experimental results and analysis are summarized for finding the best coating for reducing corrosion of pipes. Among the five different coatings tested the rubber and epoxy coatings resulted with minimum corrosion rate and weight loss.

Keywords

sea water pipeline corrosion epoxy primer enamel

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kaithari, D. K. (2016). Development of Corrosion Resistance Coatings for Sea Water Pipeline. International Journal of Students’ Research in Technology & Management, 4(2), 24–29. https://doi.org/10.18510/ijsrtm.2016.421

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