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Lining Concrete Ground Storage Tanks in Cold Weather: How New Coating Technology can Reduce Issues Related to Solvent Entrapment and Amine Blush

Lining Concrete Ground Storage Tanks in Cold Weather: How New Coating Technology can Reduce Issues Related to Solvent Entrapment and Amine Blush
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Concrete ground storage tanks for potable water can often times be large. This can make lining them a difficult task, especially when temperatures are cold. To minimize disruptions to water delivery to their customers, many municipalities like to schedule lining work in potable water storage tanks during low usage time, which coincide with colder temperatures. 

Product Number: 51220-234-SG
Author: Cory Brown
Publication Date: 2020
Industry: Coatings
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Concrete ground storage tanks for potable water can often times be large. This can make lining them a difficult task, especially when temperatures are cold. To minimize disruptions to water delivery to their customers, many municipalities like to schedule lining work in potable water storage tanks during low usage time, which coincide with colder temperatures. Because concrete is notorious for cracks, it is common for lining selection to include flexible materials such as aromatic polyurethanes for these ground storage tanks. These polyurethanes linings require epoxy primers to reduce the effects of outgassing. Cold temperatures can be at the root of a host of problems related to the adhesion of polyurethane linings to their epoxy primers. These include slow solvent evaporation and increased cure times. Increased cure times leave the primer susceptible to effects of moisture which can lead to amine blush. Solvent entrapment and amine blush are probably the two most common causes of adhesion problems between epoxy primers and polyurethane linings. In order to avoid these concerns, the coating industry has developed a new kind of primer. Cementitious water based epoxy primers are immune to solvent entrapment and amine blush. These innovative products perform the same function as their solvent borne predecessors in that they reduce the effects of outgassing, and they are able to do so without the risks associated with cold weather applications.

Concrete ground storage tanks for potable water can often times be large. This can make lining them a difficult task, especially when temperatures are cold. To minimize disruptions to water delivery to their customers, many municipalities like to schedule lining work in potable water storage tanks during low usage time, which coincide with colder temperatures. Because concrete is notorious for cracks, it is common for lining selection to include flexible materials such as aromatic polyurethanes for these ground storage tanks. These polyurethanes linings require epoxy primers to reduce the effects of outgassing. Cold temperatures can be at the root of a host of problems related to the adhesion of polyurethane linings to their epoxy primers. These include slow solvent evaporation and increased cure times. Increased cure times leave the primer susceptible to effects of moisture which can lead to amine blush. Solvent entrapment and amine blush are probably the two most common causes of adhesion problems between epoxy primers and polyurethane linings. In order to avoid these concerns, the coating industry has developed a new kind of primer. Cementitious water based epoxy primers are immune to solvent entrapment and amine blush. These innovative products perform the same function as their solvent borne predecessors in that they reduce the effects of outgassing, and they are able to do so without the risks associated with cold weather applications.

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