Water treatment and wastewater treatment facilities frequently use stainless steel oxygen and ozone systems for disinfection and process efficiency improvement. Although these systems typically operate with dry gases that present …
Summary Passivation verification relies on more than a single test. Surface-based assessments exist, both destructive and nondestructive, along with process monitoring methods, each offering different insight into stainless steel surface …
Summary Analytical testing services provide insight into the particulate and elemental contamination present in high-purity utility systems and process equipment. By combining particulate analysis, ICP-MS, SEM/EDS, and FTIR, system owners …
Stainless steel is a material of choice for high purity industries, prized for its exceptional corrosion resistance and ease of cleaning. Yet, even these robust alloys have their vulnerabilities. One …
Pickling and passivation are both chemical processes used to treat metal surfaces, but they serve different purposes and involve different chemicals. Pickling Pickling is a metal treatment process primarily used …
One of the most frequently asked questions online, “Which is better, passivation or electropolishing?” is driven by a misunderstanding of the two processes and the different roles they play. In …
As technology advances and the understanding of corrosion protection evolves, standards for metal surface preparation have been updated or replaced over the years. An earlier standard for “passivation treatments for …
Stainless steel is an ubiquitous material for process equipment in high purity industries. Its predecessor, carbon steel is an even more popular material and found in some capacity at any …
