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Section 12

Specified Coating Conditions


12 Specified Coating Conditions
A manufacturer’s product data sheet will indicate under which ambient
conditions a paint/coating can or cannot be applied. The client’s specification
may sometimes be a little stricter. However, in all cases, it is the specification
which takes precedence, (it is common practice nowadays to include a phrase
such as when these conditions do not prevail or similar, to allow coating to
continue using special products).

A typical specification used to be:

It is not permissible to apply paints:

1 During rain, snow, or high winds: This clause would be sensible even in
modern specifications.
2 When the air or metal temperature is down to within 3°C above the dew
point temperature: Still common in specification now, but can be overridden
by giving alternate systems.
3 When the air or metal temperature is below 5°C: Solvent evaporates very
slowly at low temperatures and chemical cure rates used to be static.
4 When the relative humidity is more than 90%: Still a very common
restraint and sometimes the benchmark for using moisture curing
polyurethanes.

From the above, two very important phrases arise, relative humidity and dew
point.

 Relative humidity
Defined as being the amount of water vapour in the air expressed as a
percentage of the amount of water vapour which could be in the air at that
same temperature. 100% humidity, saturation, is measured as being taken
within 1 inch of the surface of a fast flowing river.

 Dew point
This is the temperature at which water vapour in the air will condense.
Condensation cannot occur unless the relative humidity is 100%. Recalling
that every 11°C drop in temperature results in the airs capacity to hold
water halving, even the smallest drop in temperature results in water being
released from the air, in the form of condensation. So at 100% humidity the
air temperature and dew point temperature and wet bulb temperature on
the whirling hygrometer are all the same value.

12.1 The whirling hygrometer, aspirated hygrometer or psychrometer


Commonly called the whirling hygrometer, this piece of equipment is widely
used by coating inspectors to determine wet and dry bulb temperature
readings, from which, using calculators or hygrometric tables, the relative
humidity and dew point can be calculated.

Two thermometers are mounted in a plastic frame, fitted with a handle so that
the frame can be rotated through the air. One of the thermometers is fitted
with a wick around the bulb. The wick passes through a hole in the end of the
frame and into a small container with a screw lid, into which is put distilled
water or clean rainwater ie de-ionised water. The water is drawn by capillary
action all along the wick onto the area enveloping the thermometer bulb. This is
referred to as the wet bulb and the second thermometer is the dry bulb.

ATC88-40915
Specified Coating Conditions 12-1 Copyright © TWI Ltd
The frame with the thermometers mounted should be rotated quickly about a
horizontal axis. (BS 2482 states in front of and to windward of the operator) so
that the bulbs pass through the air at 4m/sec. If there is a wind the operator
should face into the wind, if no wind then walk slowly into a clean air current.

The frame should be rotated for 30-40 seconds, or as otherwise specified, as


fast as possible (to meet requirement as above) and then read the values on
the thermometer, always the wet bulb first, immediately on ceasing rotation.
The water on the wet bulb uses heat energy from the air to change into water
vapour, so the wet bulb will give a lower temperature reading than the dry
bulb. When rotation stops, the aspiration rate slows and so the wet bulb
temperature will slowly start to rise towards that of the dry bulb.

This operation should be repeated as many times as is necessary until the


following criteria is met. On two consecutive spins the readings should be within
0.2°C, wet bulb to wet bulb and dry bulb to dry bulb.

The wet bulb and dry bulb temperatures recorded can then be used to
determine the RH and DP from scales or tables.

This operation should be carried out as near as possible to where the work is
being done. Big difference in temperature can occur from N side to S side of a
tank or down a trench and topside.

12.2 Steel temperature measurement


The air temperature (ambient) is the temperature recorded from the dry bulb
thermometer. To measure the steel substrate temperature a magnetic gauge,
known commonly as a limpet gauge is used, or a digital thermometer,
thermocouple, sometimes called a touch pyrometer.

Magnetic limpet gauge. Whirling or aspirated hygrometer.

ATC88-40915
Specified Coating Conditions 12-2 Copyright © TWI Ltd

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