The advent of more stringent VOC legislation has resulted in a range of new technologies being utilized in the protective coatings industry. These new technologies require extensive testing to evaluate their performance due to a lack of track record in the market place. This is especially so in the offshore market where premature coating failure can lead to a significant loss of income for the facility owner and expensive repair costs. This has led facility owners to demand ever more stringent accelerated testing protocols to evaluate coating performance.

Due to the global nature of the offshore business, an internationally recognized testing protocol is required for the evaluation of high performance coating systems. Both ISO and NACE have recently released test protocols for evaluating coatings in the offshore environment. Recent work has concentrated on evaluation of possible acceptance criteria and comparison of failure mode with that obtained on external coastal exposure. The aim of this paper is to evaluate these new standards using a number of typical offshore schemes and report the results obtained.

Subject
Test methods, Coating performance, Zinc rich coatings, Marine environments, Solids, Corrosion testing, Polyurethanes, Epoxy coatings, Immersion, Zinc, Epoxies, Hydrocarbons, Coating systems
Keywords:
Accelerated testing, offshore, acceptance criteria, NACE, ISO, coating performance
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2006
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