SURFACE PREPARATION Following four standards are most popular and widely applied NACE: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION CORROSION ENGINIERS: @ SSPC: STEEL STRUCTURES PAINTING COUNCIL ®@ SIS 055900: SWEDISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION BS 4232: BRITHISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION Solvent SP leaning Hand tool SP2 cieaning Power tool sP3 ; cleaning Witho metal SPS. blast cleaning Comercial SP6 blast cleaning Brush-off SP7_ blast cleaning SPB Pickling Near-white SP 10 blast, cleaning Removal of oi, grease, dit, sol, salts and contaminants by cleaning with solvent, vapor, alkali, emulsion or steam. Removal of loose rust, loose mill scale, and loose paint to degree specified by hand chipping, scarping, sanding, and wire brushing ‘As above mentioned by power tool chipping, descaling, sanding, wire brushing and grinding Romoval of all visible rust, mill scalo, paint, and foreing matter by blast cleaning by wheel ‘or nozzle (dry or wet) using sand, grir or shot Blast cleaning until at least two-thirds of the surlace area is free of all visible residues (for rather severe conditions of exposure) Biast cleaning of all except tightly adhering residues of mill scale, rust, and coatings, exposing numerous evently distributed flecks ‘of underlying metal ‘Complete removal of rust and mill scale by acid, duplox, oF eloctrotytic pickling Blast cleaning nearly White Motal cleanliness, until at least 95% of the surface area is free of all visible residues (for high humidity, chemical atmosphere, marine, or other corrosive enviorenments) sis siz sis S13 NACE 1 SIS Sa3 BS 4232 (frst quali, NACE 3 SIS Sa2 BS 4232 (tire quay) SIS Sat NACE 2 15 822% BS 4232 {socond quay)