Baku, Azerbaijan

Blasting & Painting

Blasting is the operation of forcibly propelling a stream of abrasive material against a surface under high pressure to smooth a rough surface, roughen a smooth surface, shape a surface, or remove surface contaminants. A pressurized fluid, typically compressed air, or a centrifugal wheel is used to propel the blasting material (often called the media). There are several variants of the process, using various media; some are highly abrasive, whereas others are milder. The most abrasive are shot blasting (with metal shot) and sandblasting (with sand). Moderately abrasive variants include glass bead blasting (with glass beads) and media blasting with ground-up plastic stock or walnut shells and corncobs. A mild version is soda-blasting (with baking soda). In addition, there are alternatives that are barely abrasive or nonabrasive, such as ice blasting and dry-ice blasting. We offer one of the East Coast's largest state-of-the-art blasting and painting facilities. It is specially designed to handle large equipment and components perfect for customer needs.

Pipe & Equipment Isolation

In metallic pipelines, corrosion is nature’s constant progression to reduce pipelines to their original oxide state.

It is an electrochemical reaction that has four parts: anode, cathode, metallic path and electrolyte. Flange isolation and joint isolation are a means of preventing electrochemical reactions from occurring between two dissimilar metals by breaking the metallic path, or preventing the current in a cathodic protection (CP) from travelling beyond the area intended to be protected by the CP system.

Cathodic protection systems (whether impressed current or passive) are designed to protect primary assets as electrical protection is limited in range. A CP system prevents corrosion by converting all of the anodic (active) sites on the metal surface of a pipeline to cathodic (passive) sites by supplying electrical current (or free electrons) from an alternate source to equalise the potential on the surface of the metal structure.