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Advanced Zinc Technology for Extending the Lifetime of Metallic Assets Rick Simpson, Senior Corrosion Consultant ZINGAMETALL Worldwide
rick@zinga.eu
One of the most severe issues in ‘reloading’ old hot dip galvanised steelwork of electrical transmission pylons and structures is maintenance time. The Film Galvanising System was developed by Zingametall company so that these structures could be regalvanised in-situ without disruption that may compromise its operation.
A
round 42 years ago a Film Galvanising (FG) System was developed
for supporting overhead electrical cables over railway tracks. This system
in Belgium, specifically for the purpose or ‘reloading’ old or very
had to be very pure zinc, and it had to have a matching electrical-potential
weathered hot dip galvanised steelwork and this was aimed principally at
to that of hot dip galvanising (HDG) as well so that it would not form a
electrical transmission pylons and structures like the catenary structures
galvanic cell with the original hot-dip zinc.
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