RECENT PROJECTS
RETROFIT COATING
Situation:
- Vessel sank in salt water & was salvaged
- Vessel was completely stripped on the inside
- All metal was rusted & contaminated with chlorides
- Current contractor could not paint due to the quick and heavy flashing of metal
Services Rendered by Atlas:
- Inspection of entire vessel
- Abrasive blast with a chloride reducing slurry
- Salt concentration testing & approval of pertinent standard
- Barrier coating installation inside entire vessel
- Inspection & approval by NACE level 3 coatings inspector
- Report detailing work completed
Stern Tube Repair
Situation:
- Heavily corroded & pitted stern tubes
- Stern tubes travelled through fuel tanks
- Unknown level of pitting & depth
- ABS classed vessel
Services Rendered by Atlas:
- 10K pressure washing of stern tubes
- Washing & gas-freeing of fuel tanks
- Borescope inspection of stern tubes
- Abrasive blasting of stern tubes
- Pit gauging & ultra sound thickness testing
- Pit filling & ceramic coat installation
- Report detailing work completed
Fresh Water Tanks
Situation:
- Vessel had 10,000 gal fresh water tanks with a heavily failed lining
- Previous company has blasted with steel grit and tanks were made of aluminum
- Customer needed a fast turn around and ability to place tanks back into service within 24 hours of coating
Services Rendered by Atlas:
- Inspect tanks determine the reason for presence of iron oxide in aluminum tanks
- Abrasive blast tanks without any dust emission
- Inspect aluminum surface to ensure its free from iron oxide content
- Coat tanks with 60 mils of fresh potable water epoxy
- Conduct ground-breaking QA/QC with UV reactive equipment
- Report detailing work completed
- Placed tanks back into service within 24 hours of coating
Rolls Royce Kamewas
Situation:
- Intake tunnels of kamewas had eroded and become much larger in diameter
- Tolerance and fit between intakes and jet housing was no longer true
- Vessel did not want hot work and wanted to restore fit to existing
- Vessel was Bureau Veritas classed
Services Rendered by Atlas:
- Inspect drives and determine amount to be restored
- Design and build containment rings to serve as guides
- Abrasive blast entire area
- Rebuild all rings with ceramic paste and feather back to intake tunnel
- Install ceramic coating on entire intake and outlet system
- Report detailing work completed
Chain Locker
Situation:
- Existing chain locker underwent hot work to replace metal on chain boxes
- Corrosion was causing significant metal loss on chain locker
- Customer was seeking a permanent solution
- Vessel was Lloyds Register classed
Services Rendered by Atlas:
- Inspection of chain locker
- Containment & abrasive blasting of chain locker
- Install ceramic liner in chain boxes & construct templates
- Install ceramic rubber on templates & install on chain boxes
- Install finish coating inside entire chain locker
- Report detailing work completed
Piping & Scuppers
Situation:
- Vessel had 42 scuppers on main deck
- Scuppers were severely corroded and some were leaking inside vessel
- 12 scuppers were plugged with unknown material
- Vessel was not classed
Services Rendered by Atlas:
- Borescope inspection of each scupper
- Use waterjet line mole to unplug all scuppers
- Employ intermittent linear blast on cracked scuppers
- Abrasive blast good scuppers
- Install ceramic liner inside each scupper
- Report detailing work completed
Exhausts
Situation:
- Existing exhausts were prone to having their water rings plugged
- Temperature on exhausts would rise to high levels
- Vessel wanted an exhaust coating rated for high temperatures
- Vessel was Bureau Veritas classed
Services Rendered by Atlas:
- 10K power washing of exhaust to remove soot and damaged lining
- Containment & abrasive blasting of main exhaust & bypass
- Measure all pits & perform ultrasound thickness reading on exhausts
- Fill all pits with refractive ceramic paste
- Install inorganic copolymer coating rated to 860 F (460 C)
- Report detailing work completed