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Article: Overview of advances in pipeline coating.(TECHNOLOGY UPDATE)
- Article from:
- High Performance Plastics
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Pipelines are being developed worldwide to meet the rising demands for energy and water, and pipeline integrity is being studied to reduce loss in transmission and to handle increasingly hostile environments.
From cement composites to FBE, self-healing polymers and layered polyolefins, new coating materials have been produced and are undergoing extensive trials in the laboratory and in field testing. Exxon Mobil has reviewed the procedure for pipe-coating selection based on current trends.
The pipe-coating companies are undertaking much of the new research. Salzgitter-Mannesmann Forschung is looking at alternative adhesion promoters with Europipe and ...