Publications
"Setting up a Coatings Maintenance Program for Power Plants." JPCL 12/2003
The title was setting up a coatings maintenance program but the JPCL wanted it their
power plant issue and ... No matter the industry in which you work, this is a good article. Goals, strategies,
action plans, critical success factors, excel workbook datasets, risk factors, how to do
your survey and establish budgets, how to educate your management; it is all covered.
Skip the blank pages, those were ads. There are also questions and answers from a panel.
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"The Costs of Delayed Coating Maintenance or The Costs of Not Painting." JPCL
12/2004
OK, so I couldn't decide on a title, but it has some good information for you
where we tracked project costs and "back fit" what the cost would have been if the
project wasn't delayed. I'll ruin the ending for you. The delay cost factor was 21X.
You should look it over anyway; from this article I finally developed my later article
on coatings economics.
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"Coatings in Power Plants - Controlling Fouling & Corrosion in Tubing." JPCL
11/2005
I finally made it out of the Power Plant issue only to have the name thrown
back in. Any industry (utilities, refineries, others) that have cooling water circuits and
condenser and heat exchangers having fouling and corrosion issues. We look at
the temperature and flow effects on fouling and deposition and that on heat transfer
efficiency. We show how coatings can minimize both fouling and heat rate losses in
coating tubes and significantly reduce corrosion and in-leakage concerns as well. Don't
believe what "they say" the technology works and is well below re-tubing costs.
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"How You Can Benefit From a Coatings Program." PACE 2005
This article had no figures, tables or pictures as published by PACE and was therefore
worthless. However, the presentation was very good. It's there, but don't bother.
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"Coatings Economics - Coating at the Lowest Cost." PACE 2006
This was both an article and a presentation at PACE. It is a teaching and learning tool,
an Economics of Coatings 101 course. It shows you when to paint at the lowest possible
spending levels (annualized costs), it compares two different systems (solvented epoxy vs.
100% solids epoxy) and (Zn-Epoxy-Urethane vs. an Elastomeric acrylic) over time on a
basis of $/Ft2/applied over service life, the true cost of any system. This is my favorite talk.
Isn't your real problem obtaining funding for the work you need to do? If it is, you need to
read this article! In addition, the costs of delayed coatings maintenance are defined
graphically. What are you waiting for? I don't get any data on who grabs this and right
now it's free!
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"Managing the Risk of Corrosion-Coatings Failure." PACE 2006
OK, I did double duty in 2006 and did two articles. This one was for fun but it talks
about a serious issue. You learn about risks in general, failure and consequence, what a
risk grid is and how to apply it to coatings failures. I even give you one I use for
Power plants.
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"Handling Fouling in Plant Cooling Water Systems." Draft for PACE 2007
No, it is not yet published. Yes, it sounds like the 11/05 JPCL work; but it isn't. This is
the story of anti-fouling and foul release technology. We discuss things like the
clean water act and its amendments (Ugh) and 316b (Ugh) and what is coming to those of us
that use natural cooling waters. You can be one of the first to review it and I'll take
comments. With diminished cooling water intake flows, criteria for reducing marine life
kills (60-90%), and increasingly restrictive discharge permits we are all in trouble.
Solutions are required on plants will be dropping off line on a daily basis. Take a look at
Silicone foul release (again if necessary). I need my air conditioning and lights.
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"Preventative Maintenance in Older Facilities," PACE 2008
Many industries are operating under severely limited O&M budgets and have been for some time. Lean and mean in today's
reality has become mal-nourished and over stressed. The last major corrosion study conducted in our industry showed
a $276 Billion/Yr deficit of which 75% was unrecoverable. Now a new study has determined that it is never too late to
restore measurable viability to a facility's operation through adequate and proper preventive maintenance. This is good
news, providing we can adequately demonstrate and use it.
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Presentations
For a copy of our presentations please contact us.
"How you can Benefit from a Coatings Program." PACE 2005
This presentation is worth its weight in gold.
"Setting up a Coatings Maintenance Program- Protecting Your Assets." NACE
Western Area Conference 2005 Oxnard, CA
"Coatings Economics Coating at the Lowest Cost." PACE 1/2006, Tampa, FL USA and Mega-Rust 6/2006, (Marine Coatings
& Corrosion Conference), Norfolk, VA USA
"Managing the Risk of Corrosion-Coatings Failure." PACE 1/2006, Tampa, FL USA
"Preventative Maintenance in Older Facilities." PACE 1/2008, Los Angeles, CA USA
Programs
"The Corr-Coat Coatings & Corrosion Control Preventative Maintenance Program"
This body of work has lead to a Microsoft (MS-Office) Excel data based
Coatings & Corrosion Control Preventative Maintenance Program. Data from a
categorized assessment survey conducted by program instructions is coupled with
owner goals and strategies to produce an economic picture, various level
budgets, and priority of work projects. Using the program you can track and
update projects and quickly produce management status reports and presentations.
This data is also able to be projected forward to future years and you can
answer the question what if we delay this work two years? The program works
for a single site and for a complete system of many sites. It has been upgraded
many times since it was first used in 2002. It is presently being used by
industrial utilities and military installations.
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