Most of what gets written about boiler layup assumes a big boiler. Thousands of gallons, a maintenance crew, a planned outage with a work order behind it. That is not the boiler that rusts in most Midwest plants. The one that rusts is the small package boiler in the...
When a machine fits in a container, corrosion protection is a packaging problem. When it does not, it becomes a weather problem. Out-of-gauge cargo — oversized weldments, structural steel, wind turbine components, large skids and frames — goes breakbulk on...
Two case histories, one method Cortec published two pieces in recent weeks that describe the same preservation method applied to very different assets. One is an article on protecting turbines during transport, layup and outdoor storage, with field results from three...
If you build engines, you already know the problem even if you have never put a name to it. The engine runs on the hot test stand, it passes, it gets drained, and it goes to the yard or into a container. Weeks or months later it comes back out with rust inside a...
In most Illinois and Wisconsin plants, the same two weeks in October carry two opposite jobs. The cooling tower or chiller comes down for the season, and the boiler comes back up. Both jobs usually have a checklist. Neither checklist usually has a line on it for...
A gearbox that leaves the plant with an empty case rusts on the teeth and bearing races above whatever oil film drained off in the first day. The traditional answer is to ship it full of oil, which means paying to fill it, paying to ship the weight, declaring the...
