This year's lockdown made us realize how important and necessary it is to protect basic utilities such as boilers, cooling water systems, and closed loops. For this purpose, Cortec® has released a detailed white paper on strategies to help commercial and institutional facilities prevent the corrosion.
Due to the lockdown imposed by Coronavirus, some commercial and institutional structures - including hotels, resorts, restaurants, theme parks, convention centers, school districts, university campuses, and air and ship terminals - have been closed for a few weeks, others at the moment still have the shutters lowered and not they know when or if they will reopen.
In addition to the pandemic challenge, many facility managers have also faced new challenges as unprecedented public safety measures. Some of them who have never even had to consider a conservation plan now find themselves having to put down a plan to prevent corrosion on basic utilities such as boilers, water cooling systems and closed circuits.
Cortec® Corporation then has released a detailed white paper on simple and effective strategies to help these facilities, which are a top priority, since corrosion on idle equipment can result in premature equipment failure, unnecessary and non-budgeted repair/replacement costs and further delays to equipment startups. In the Survival Guide users can find strategies on how to have excellent protection with minimal effort and easy startup; helpful reference charts to identify the best water treatments to apply based on system type, component, size, and dry or wet-dry layup method; invaluable direction for those still in the middle of a shutdown crisis, as well as for those who are reopening; solutions for cleaning, odor control, and drain, septic, and grease trap maintenance using biologicals from Cortec's biotechnology subsidiary, Bionetix® International.
These products contain beneficial microorganisms that continue to biodegrade waste and soils even after the initial application. This continuous biological activity makes shutdown an ideal time for treatment because it offers microorganisms many opportunities to work without disruption while drains are not being used. Furthermore, shutdown is also the ideal time to carry out concrete repair and maintenance activities without hindering customers, tourists or students who would normally be on site.
To maximize the durability of these project and structural components, Cortec's Guide identifies several MCI® materials to mitigate corrosion such as MCI® repair mortar, surface applied Migrating Corrosion Inhibitors (with or without a combination water repellent), and a water-based coating to protect rebar from corrosion in outdoor storage.
This year's lockdown made us realize how important and necessary it is to protect basic utilities. Fortunately, this white paper offers facility managers an excellent conservation plan to guide them through a moment of uncertainty towards hoping for a good future startup without corrosion problems.