The Dow Chemical Company and Electro Chemical were recently presented with Missouri-based Materials Technology Institutes (MTI) 2016 Global Value Award for applying MTI guidebooks as they collaborated on a scrubber repair project that solved Dows corrosion problem. The two companies earned the award based on eight criteria, including the positive financial, reliability and safety impacts that the project has had on Dow operations.
The project team, which included materials engineering experts from both companies, used MTIs Guide for the Repair & Modification of FRP Equipment and Guide for the Repair & Modification of Lined Equipment to help evaluate the option of installing a Kynar® PVDF thermoplastic liner in an existing FRP scrubber that was exhibiting end-of-life characteristics due to chemical corrosion. Ultimately, Dow engineers concluded that using the PVDF fluoropolymer liner could provide the protection the unit needed.