Devcon Maintenance and Repair Solutions - Sintemar
Devcon Maintenance and Repair Solutions - Sintemar
Devcon Maintenance and Repair Solutions - Sintemar
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Field Application Reports<br />
Products:<br />
Application Date:<br />
Customer:<br />
Industry:<br />
Location 24<br />
Heat Exchanger Outer<br />
Shell Rebuild<br />
Ceramic <strong>Repair</strong>, Brushable Ceramic<br />
2/20/00<br />
Celanese Fiber<br />
Textile Mill<br />
Problem:<br />
This heat Exchanger is surround by a cloud of chemicals. The vapors from these chemicals attacked<br />
the outer shelf the exchanger causing tremendous corrosion <strong>and</strong> pitting of the metal. L the exchanger<br />
started to leak <strong>and</strong> could nolonger be used in service. WE had to rebuild the entire “metal shell” of the<br />
exchanger <strong>and</strong> get back on line in 48 hours attacking the outside of the core<br />
Solution:<br />
All loose rust was scraped from the metal shell. Ceramic <strong>Repair</strong> was applied to the surface at 1/16”<br />
thick around the shell. Next fiberglass mesh cloth was laid around the Ceramic <strong>Repair</strong> while still wet.<br />
The cloth was pushed into the epoxy <strong>and</strong> smoothed out with a plastic scraper. After four hours<br />
Brushable Ceramic was coated over the fiberglass cloth at 15 mil thick. After 2 hours another coat of<br />
Brushable Ceramic was applied. The entire shell was rebuilt with epoxy <strong>and</strong> all leaking <strong>and</strong> rusting<br />
completely stopped!