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Covalent Bonding of Silicone RTV Coatings

Silicone room temperature vulcanizing (RTV) polymer based coatings were designed with maintenance, and extending asset design life in mind. This technology can be tailored to be used as the backbone for a wide variety of coating applications by taking advantage of the inherent properties of RTV silicone. 

Product Number: 51218-146-SG
Author: Matt Saunders
Publication Date: 2018
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Silicone room temperature vulcanizing (RTV) polymer based coatings were designed with maintenance, and extending asset design life in mind. This technology can be tailored to be used as the backbone for a wide variety of coating applications by taking advantage of the inherent properties of RTV silicone. Demands on protective coatings to meet longer service life have led to the devolvement of RTV silicone maintenance coatings. Historically, in the absence of commercially available polysiloxane RTV polymer coatings the comprehensive set of standards for accelerated performance indication have been tailored to evaluating either epoxy or polyurethane coatings. Considering this, a combination of accelerated laboratory testing, natural exposure testing and historical installations have been used to innovate technology that will push the performance limits of today’s silicone maintenance coatings. The basic philosophy behind the development of silicone polymer based coatings as an anticorrosion coating was to minimize the need for surface preparation by using covalent bonding rather than mechanical adhesion. As a result, silicone polymer based coatings have been developed to have superior adhesive properties, as they become one with the coated surface and do not simply sit on top providing a barrier. When compared to conventional coatings the surface tolerance created by this chemical bond eliminates the need for sandblasting and/or profiling of the substrate. For efficiency this allows specifying SP-1 or 2, where SP-6, 7, or 10 may have been previously required

Silicone room temperature vulcanizing (RTV) polymer based coatings were designed with maintenance, and extending asset design life in mind. This technology can be tailored to be used as the backbone for a wide variety of coating applications by taking advantage of the inherent properties of RTV silicone. Demands on protective coatings to meet longer service life have led to the devolvement of RTV silicone maintenance coatings. Historically, in the absence of commercially available polysiloxane RTV polymer coatings the comprehensive set of standards for accelerated performance indication have been tailored to evaluating either epoxy or polyurethane coatings. Considering this, a combination of accelerated laboratory testing, natural exposure testing and historical installations have been used to innovate technology that will push the performance limits of today’s silicone maintenance coatings. The basic philosophy behind the development of silicone polymer based coatings as an anticorrosion coating was to minimize the need for surface preparation by using covalent bonding rather than mechanical adhesion. As a result, silicone polymer based coatings have been developed to have superior adhesive properties, as they become one with the coated surface and do not simply sit on top providing a barrier. When compared to conventional coatings the surface tolerance created by this chemical bond eliminates the need for sandblasting and/or profiling of the substrate. For efficiency this allows specifying SP-1 or 2, where SP-6, 7, or 10 may have been previously required

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