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Corrosion damage and its consequences

Heating oil can always contain water. Temperature fluctuations cause sweat or condensation to form on the tank walls.

Due to its higher specific weight compared to heating oil, it collects on the bottom of the tank. Minerals and chemical compounds contained in the heating oil also settle on the bottom of the tank.

Over time, an aggressive sump forms that gradually eats away at the bottom of the tank. The result is an unprotected tank bottom that is destroyed by pitting.

Measures to save your heating oil tank system:

> Tank inner shell / leak protection lining

> plastic coating

> New installation

> anode protection

> Glass fiber reinforced polyester coating (GRP)

By installing the GRP coating, your steel tank is protected. The corrosion-resistant GRP coating prevents dangerous internal corrosion and guarantees the tank owner a long-term preservation of his tank system.

We would be happy to advise you free of charge to find an individual solution.

 

Get an insight into how a GRP coating could work

1. Normal tank cleaning is followed by mechanical treatment of the edge adhesion zones and removal of the old paint.

2. This is followed by chemical cleaning of all surfaces to be coated.
3. Apply adhesion promoter and dry the inner tank wall.
4. Application of liquid polyester into which glass fibre mats are introduced (in a hand laminar process).
5. Liquid polyester is spread over the intended area using a fur roller. A glass fibre mat is laminated onto the still wet surface. For this we use a 450 g mat, which is applied in two layers on the floor and one layer on the side walls.
6. Curing of the coating. After applying the polyester lining reinforced with glass fiber mats, this is thermally treated until it is hardened enough to be walked on. Completion of a GRP floor pan.
7. Ready-to-use GRP floor pan coating.