Document Responsibility: Paints and Coatings Standards Committee SAES-H-001

Issue Date: 23 May 2019 Coating Selection and Application

Next Planned Update: 23 May 2024 Requirements for Industrial Plants and Equipment

Maintenance Coating/Painting: Application of coating to preserve the useful state of

an existing coating. Repairing is the most common method to maintain a coating.
Complete replacement of an existing coating is not maintenance coating.

Medium Corrosive Atmosphere: Urban and industrial atmospheres with moderate

sulfur dioxide pollution, identified as Mildly Corrosive as per Table 1 of SAES-A-134.

New Construction Coating: Application of coating on a completely new and uncoated

facility, equipment or machinery. New coating also applies to the coating application
on completely bare substrate that was previously coated.

Thick Film Coating: Coatings with an average dry film thickness greater than 20 mils
(500 microns).

Thin Film Coating: Coatings with an average dry film thickness of 20 mils
(500 microns) or less.

Thixotropic Coating: A type of coating that thickens or gels in a relatively short time
when at rest, but readily becomes more fluid when agitated or stirred.

Stripe Coat: A coat of paint applied only to edges or to welds on steel structures
before or after a full coat is applied to the entire surface. The stripe coat is intended to
give those areas sufficient film build to resist corrosion.

Sweep Blast Cleaning: A fast pass of fine nonmetallic abrasive blasting pattern at low
pressure (< 275 kPa / 40 psi) over a surface to remove loose material and to roughen the
surface sufficiently to successfully accept a coat of paint. This method of cleaning is
specified as SSPC-SP 7, Brush-off Blast Cleaning, or as SSPC-SP16, Brush-Off Blast
Cleaning of Coated and Uncoated Galvanized Steel, Stainless Steels, and Non-Ferrous
Metals.

Ultra-High Pressure Water Cleaning: Removal of surface contaminants (cleaning)

by jetting with water at a pressure in excess of 25,000 psi (170 MPa).

Vessels: Where referred to in this standard, the term “vessels” includes, but is not
necessarily limited to columns, traps, drums, heat exchangers, and boilers.

Wet-on-Wet Coating Application: Technique of coating application where additional

coating passes are employed over a coating that is still wet, making the composite film
dries as a whole. A wet coat applied over another wet coat is considered one coat of
application.

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