Protective Organic Coatings Research Articles

A Method of Selecting Protective Coatings For Offshore Drilling Structures

A general outline of the principal conditions of exposure encountered in marine operations associated with petroleum production. The high cost of marine or offshore wells makes a corrosion control program imperative. A major part of this program is the use of organic protective coatings. This type of application is relatively new for most paint manufacturers and consequently a laboratory testing program was set up to evaluate protective coatings. To further verify the laboratory results, panels coated with the various painting systems were exposed at a marine location in the Gulf Coast. A laboratory testing program is described in which quantitative measurements of the film characteristics are made. By using the moisture vapor transmission salt spray and adhesion tests, a laboratory rating is calculated by which coatings are rejected or further tested in the field. The better coatings together with some of the unsuitable ones were exposed on test panels at a marine test station in the atmospheric, tidal o...

Building Organic Protective Coatings to Special Requirements

Building Organic Protective Coatings to Special Requirements

New Coatings Specifications Save Raw Materials

The War Department is composed of three groups, the Army Ground Forces, the Army Air Forces, and the Services of Supply. The last group—namely, the Services of Supply—is under the command of General Somervell and I am in his Resources and Production Staff Division. My responsibility is to cover all phases of organic protective coatings involving conservation, from the standpoint of seeing that General Somervell's policies are carried out. This necessitates reviewing all Army tentative specifications and of giving final approval to all Army specifications to make sure that they are practical and not too restrictive. It involves, also, initiating action to revise specifications requiring raw materials that should be conserved for more essential purposes and to standardize specifications, not only with the individual supply services such as Ordnance, Quartermaster Corps, Engineers, etc., but also with the Navy and all other Government Departments. With raw materials required for protective coatings becoming ...

Accelerated tests of organic protective coatings

Accelerated tests of organic protective coatings

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