Cortec Corporation’s Vapor phase Corrosion Inhibitors offer effective turbine preservation strategies that can save time, money, and labor for manufacturers, power companies, and other industries connected to these assets.
Corrosion can attack new steam, gas, or wind turbines when traveling thousands of miles through changing climates over land or sea. It can prematurely age turbines waiting for installation and commissioning at a new facility.
It can even degrade spare turbines stored for emergency replacement. Risks are greatest in the presence of coastal conditions, tropical climates, fluctuating temperatures, and other harsh environments.
Corrosion inhibiting vapors diffuse throughout enclosed spaces to reach and adsorb on metal surfaces, forming a protective corrosion inhibiting molecular layer.
The two main components of VpCI® turbine preservation are external and internal protection. VpCI®-containing films create an external shell that plays three roles: a barrier to wind, rain, sun, salt, etc.; an enclosure to keep Vapor phase Corrosion Inhibitors inside the package; and as a source of vapor phase corrosion inhibitors.
For larger items such as turbines, an additional source of VpCI® is recommended within the enclosure to meet volume and duration needs. This can be applied by placing emitting materials around the turbine shell prior to shrink-wrapping in VpCI® film. Another option is to fog the turbine flow path with CorroLogic fogging fluid.
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