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Oil & gas coating solution works for water transmission pipeline corrosion control

Although the anticorrosion coating combination of fusion-bonded epoxy (FBE) with abrasion-resistant overcoat (ARO) is well known within the oil and gas industry, ARO coating systems are not typically chosen by specifiers in the municipal water industry. However, a recent water pipeline project was successfully lined internally with cement mortar after applying both FBE and ARO and showed the advantages of using this combination to protect municipal water piping from corrosion. FBE is an epoxy-based thermosetting powder coating widely applied to steel pipe, steel reinforcing bars for concrete, tanks, and a wide variety of piping connections (valves and fittings)