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New Long Service Life Topcoats For Pad-Mounted Transformer Enclosures.

Typical service lifetimes for protective coating systems range from 10-50 years, depending on how extreme the service environment is, as well as on all the details of substrate preparation, coating composition, and coating application.4 While the primary consideration for specifiers of protective coating systems is the service life related to corrosion protection, there is often also a requirement of durability of decorative properties, e.g. color and gloss. This is true not only for monumental steel structures, but also for instance for industrial and offshore structures where “safety colors” are used. This segment therefore has many similarities to the “architectural coatings” segment (coatings for monumental buildings), where the substrates may be different, but where a multi-layer system approach is still used, and owners expect the durability of both the protective and decorative functions.  

Product Number: 51322-18088-SG
Author: Kurt Wood, Anna Johnson, Bruce Sylvester
Publication Date: 2022
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This paper describes recent work to develop 2-component aqueous topcoat formulations, based on PVDF-acrylic hybrid dispersions crosslinked with polyisocyanates, which meet the requirements of the new SSPC Paint 471 standard for highly weatherable fluoropolymer topcoats, and when combined with conventional primer and midcoat technology, also meet the requirements of IEEE(1) standards C57.12.282 and C57.12.293 for pad-mounted transformer enclosures. Enhanced weatherability is primarily conferred by having relatively high levels of fluoropolymer in the coating binder. Chemical resistance is obtained by a combination of high fluoropolymer level plus crosslink density. Barrier properties contributing to corrosion resistance depend on both these compositional factors, as well as on other formulation details. 

This paper describes recent work to develop 2-component aqueous topcoat formulations, based on PVDF-acrylic hybrid dispersions crosslinked with polyisocyanates, which meet the requirements of the new SSPC Paint 471 standard for highly weatherable fluoropolymer topcoats, and when combined with conventional primer and midcoat technology, also meet the requirements of IEEE(1) standards C57.12.282 and C57.12.293 for pad-mounted transformer enclosures. Enhanced weatherability is primarily conferred by having relatively high levels of fluoropolymer in the coating binder. Chemical resistance is obtained by a combination of high fluoropolymer level plus crosslink density. Barrier properties contributing to corrosion resistance depend on both these compositional factors, as well as on other formulation details. 

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