Case Studies
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Major NE Coast Oil Refinery Cat Cracker
February 2006
A corroded and leaking underground 25” carbon steel cooling water pipe. Due to the leak, the cat cracker was not operational. Every day the Cat Cracker is not operational results in an approximate loss of one million dollars.
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Pima County Wastewater Treatment Plant
October 2005
Wastewater Treatment Facility Finds a cure for Deteriorated Concrete.
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Ina Road Road Wastewater Expansion Project
November 2003
The Ina Road Wastewater Treatment Facility expanded to double in size. Among the many needs of the expansion project was to ensure that the new infrastructure was protected for many years to come, allowing the maximum life for the anoxic basins, aeration basins, skimmer house primary clarifiers and influent and bypass channels.
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Major NE Coast Oil Refinery Valve Box Headers 1
April 2003
The problem here was a valve box header leak. The main cooling water header used to cool the poly-alky unit had developed a major leak. The pipe could not be repaired because the valves used to isolate the pipe leak were not functioning properly.
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Major NE Coast Oil Refinery Valve Box Headers 2
April 2003
Concrete encased pipe and valve body had developed a severe leak. The leak was unable to be repaired with conventional pipe wrap methods. Major NE Coast Oil Refinery was faced with a costly replacement.
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Six Flags Great Adventure Dolphin Tank
August 2001
Six Flags maintenance workers were faced with transforming a corroding pool into a safe, repaired, and attractive dolphin tank. Due to the rusted re-bar and the deteriorating concrete, restoring the tank seemed an impossible feat. Because concrete will not bond to itself again during repair, it meant that the concrete would have to be replaced entirely as well as removing and replacing the re-bar.
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Kimberly Clark
June 2001
At Kimberly Clark’s paper mill, piping was leaking. Despite the fact that the stainless steel piping was coated with other epoxies and coal tar coatings, the wet paper slurry had created a thriving environment for a microbial attack. The microbial attack resulted in tiny pinholes causing the stainless steel piping to leak. The maximum piping life in this corrosive environment was only six months.
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The Bellagio Hotel
April 1998
To provide long term corrosion protection to piping, pumps, and metallic surfaces of bridges for walkways around the manmade lake and dancing water fountain. In addition, Bellagio management wanted material to be subdued color wise, so as not to take away from the beauty of the lake and fountains.
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Cooling Tower Leak Repair
July 1994
The cooling tower for an office building in Richardson, Texas was leaking hundreds of gallons of water and needed to be replaced. While the office building was closed over July fourth weekend in 1996, the repair crew had 48 hours to repair the leaks in the basin, completely recoat the inside and outside of the basin and the entire structure, including insulated piping and hot boxes, and in the end, to return the structure to full operating status.
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