By: Davies Hood, Induron President Yes, galvanized steel does corrode. In fact, there are a million steel transmission structures fighting corrosion issues in North America and nearly 20 percent of the world’s steel production supports replacing steel structures and equipment that has been damaged by corrosion.
transmission & distribution
What Coatings Can Be Used to Safeguard Power Plants in the Future?
By: Kendall Smith, Induron Power Market Manager The landscape of electricity generation has been changing for decades. Currently, the mix of power plant types and fuels used in the United States include natural gas (simple cycle and combined cycle), nuclear, coal, petroleum, renewables (wind, hydro, solar, geothermal) and more.
Standards Based on Experience
By: Kendall Smith, Induron Power Market Manager When I began working in the coatings industry in 1982, standards specifically developed for the electric utility industry’s transmission and distribution (T&D) coatings market did not exist. Specifically, coating standards for electric substations (equipment and structures) high-voltage transmission structures (monopoles and lattice towers/pylons) and for “flow-coating” large transformers … Read More
New Dehli: One Year Later
By: Russell Hicks, Induron Sales Representative Back in the fall of 2019, I had the privilege of going to India to represent Induron Protective Coatings in a case study with Sterlite Power of India. The case study required the application of Induron’s Induraguard 9200 on a 40+ year old power transmission tower in the New … Read More
Restoring Transmission Towers Around the World
By: Russell Hicks, Induron Sales Representative The number of aged galvanized towers around the world is large and budgets are tight. The utility owners face increasing pressure to substantially upgrade transmission lines using existing infrastructure. In such cases, the use of existing and often older towers makes economic and political sense.
The Induron InduraPlan for Corrosion Protection
By: Dick Belliveau, Retired Induron Sales Representative After being semi-retired for almost two years, I still can’t pass an electric transmission line or substation without making a comment about its condition or when I worked on it in the past – much to my wife’s dismay!
Extending The Useful Life of Global Galvanized T&D Assets
By: Kendall Smith, Induron Power Market Manager Induron sales representatives have traveled around the world to speak with electric transmission managers about protecting T&D assets from corrosion. We have discovered almost as many approaches to coatings and corrosion as the countries we’ve visited. Because most places have extensive literature and standards on new HDG galvanizing, … Read More
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