Project Description
The Challenge
• Severfield’s new painting facility for treatment of steel with intumescent paint
• Stringent air quality requirement, due to particularly high levels of VOCs in the paint, which also affect drying times
• Limited available space at high level due to mobile cranes
• Strict budget and lifecycle costs
• Openly tendered against competing diffusion / extraction solutions
The Outcome
• A competitive solution, as compared with other offers, in an open tender competition
• The spraying area is comfortable for the occupants, with excellent air quality and VOCs managed to safe levels
• Pulsers mounted at high level within steel roof trusses
• Drying time for the intumescent paint has been reduced by half, meaning throughput has doubled
• No draughts or thermal stratification
