Environmentally Compliant Protective Coatings for Water Distribution and Storage Systems

The maintenance of water distribution and storage systems worldwide is a costly process due to corrosion. Corrosion severely reduces the useful lifetime of water distribution pipes and mains, and adversely affects the quality of potable water. Corrosion-resistant protective coatings are an excellent means to address the issue by creating a barrier that prevents access of water as a corrosion-mediating electrolyte to the pipe wall and the subsequent dissolution and erosion of contaminants from the pipe wall into the water. Advenira’s environmentally friendly Solution Derived Nanocomposite (SDN®) coating technology has yielded two different protective coating formulations. This paper reports the properties of these coatings with particular focus on corrosion prevention in water distribution and storage systems. KeywordProtective Coatings; Corrosion; Water Distribution; Environmentally Friendly; Nanocomposite