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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!

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