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The shot blasting system designed and manufactured by ITF for domestic boilers.
INNOVATIONS: PRESENT&FUTURE
An Innovative Technology for Automatically Shot Blasting the Internal Surfaces of Electric Water Heaters Davide Silva ITF Srl, Mesero, Milan, Italy
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davide.silva@itf.it
oating the inside of their tanks is essential to protect electric
mechanical pre-treatment through shot blasting and enamelling with
water heaters from corrosion, since, by their very nature,
a liquid or powder product. The coating lines required for finishing
their internal surfaces are cyclically in contact with water, whose
boilers can be semi-automatic or automatic. These are faced with
aggressiveness increases as the operating temperature rises.
several critical issues, including the significant dimensional variability
Typically, indeed, the finishing cycle of these devices for domestic
of tanks, the need to work with a continuous flow and a high
use focusses on the internal surfaces of their tanks and it involves
efficiency degree, and the high coating quality required.
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