Torquing is a critical step in your installation of flanges and equipment, but, it is just so time consuming. You could have flanges with 16 or 60 bolts or turbines with nearly 100. Take the sheer number of bolts times the time it takes to turn them with a hydraulic wrench times the number of passes you have to make to get each flange done. Wow, that’s a lot of minutes. There are a few options to help you speed up this operation and reduce your time to something reasonable.
Make sure your hydraulic pumps have multiple outlets. Pumps that operate up to 4 tools at once are readily available for rent or purchase. This is good for smaller tools and the time you’re saving is the moving of tools for each bolt.
Air powered nut runners are a calibrated option to get bolts tightened quickly to
Your concrete basin may be leaking, but there’s no way you can take it down to do any repairs. The whole plant is dependent on the cooling tower running. If you were to coat the inside you’d have to have several days to prep and coat and then you’d have to let the new coating cure before filling the basin. That could be days or even a week.
But, if you could apply a coating that required minimal prep and could be applied to the wet concrete, you’d have time for that. With the advancements of cement chemistry and the variety of additives used in products these days, cement-based coatings are a real option for this application. Flexible cement waterproofing slurries can bridge cracks in the existing concrete. They are easy to apply and take little
Coating containment areas in tank farms and loading areas can be pretty easy if you can get the protection you need with a thin film coating. These coatings are easy to apply can be easily repaired when they are damaged. The key is in making sure your get the right protection for your specific chemical. Remember, to qualify for secondary containment, the coating has to survive long enough to hold the chemical in the containment area for 72 hours.
Consult a good chemical resistance chart to make sure you’re choosing the best coating for your chemicals. Look for products that are made for “Secondary Containment”. You need 72 hours, so don’t waste your money on heavy duty systems designed to containment the chemicals indefinitely in some sort of primary containment vessel.
You need a versatile and durable flooring material for your demanding conditions, but, you’d prefer a product made from renewable, sustainable sources. Verdia has found a better, greener way to products the high quality flooring materials to meet your needs.
New Bio-based technology has finally allowed for more environmentally friendly products to be created for your toughest applications without sacrificing performance. VerdeFloor flooring systems represent the next generation of polyurethane concrete technology. This unique technology gives floors exceptional resistance to aggressive chemicals as well as mechanical and thermal shock. VerdeFloor Bio-Based flooring systems utilize domestically produced soy bean polyols and environmentally friendly packaging.
Everyone wants to repair or replace damaged foundations, but they don’t want it to take any time. Keeping the kind of schedule the owner is expecting is critical to your project. However, doing that with conventional materials and methods is basically impossible. In the past, the only option was for the owner to wait for conventional concrete to gain strength. In most cases, they can’t wait the full cure time. So, those foundations hardly ever last as long as they’d hoped.
As the contractor, you want to give your customer other options that could exceed their expectations on time and performance. You’re in luck. There are many options available for the repair and replacement for concrete that don’t require the traditional cure times you’ve had to schedule around in the past. Most of these materials are specially designed